Jeff Kinney said great things about TIME TRAVEL INN!

Hey, no big deal, but Jeff Kinney (author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid) read my new book, TIME TRAVEL INN. And Kinney liked it so much, he described the story as having “mind-blowing adventure and heart-stopping thrills!” So like I said, no big deal—it’s a GIGANTIC deal!

Dave Barry

I’m geeking out because the world’s most famous humor writer, Dave Barry, mentioned me and Bad Dad Jokes: That’s How Eye Roll on his blog yesterday. So, *ahem*: SQUEE! P.S. The “MILF” on that sweatshirt stands for “Man, I Love to Fart.”

I’m writing two new books for Choose Your Own Adventure!

This notice ran in Publishers Marketplace this week. Pretty exciting stuff! You can see the rough draft of the cover for Spies: Moe Berg below. He was a longtime professional baseball player in the 1930s. After about 15 years in the major leagues, Moe Berg enlisted as a spy during World War II. I explore […]

I Won a Major Award!

No big deal, but I was just awarded WRITING’S GREATEST PRIZE! No, not the Nobel Prize in Literature. Even better—I won the ”Vile Pun” category in the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. As background, the BLFC challenges writers to compose the first sentence for the worst imaginable novel. It has various genre categories (Adventure, Romance, Science Fiction, […]

Little Leonardo’s MakerLab books!

Hey, did you notice that I have two new books out? These STEAM activity books were a lot of fun to write. Hopefully, there’s fun to read as well. ROBOTS and SPACE are available now, and the next one in the series, BUILDING, is coming soon! Fun science activity books for readers 4-8 Gorgeously illustrated […]