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  • Happy Halloween! Every year, I make a little picture to give out to trick-or-teaters. (I call it “eye candy” but we also have sugar :P) This yearโ€™s mini print is a 4 x 6″ Straw Man tending the corn field. If you happen to find yourself in Orem, Utah tonight, then swing by my place…

  • Congratulations to Maria in Brooklynโ€”she is the winner of a signed copy of Science Fair Frenzy! Thank you to everyone who entered and spread the word about the release of this second book in my new series of interactive graphic novels. For a chance to win future giveaways and to sneak a peek at new…

  • In the second volume of the What Happens Next? graphic novel series, YOU decide whether Sunbright Middle School’s science fair is a successโ€”or if it all goes up in flames! Megan Hathaway came to Sunbright Middle Schoolโ€™s Science and Invention Fair expecting to have funโ€”she and her friend Charlotte had prepared a presentation on crow…

  • Today is your last chance to enter to win a signed copy of my new interactive graphic novel, What Happens Next: Science Fair Frenzy! To celebrate the book’s release tomorrow, June 20, all you have to do to enter is sign up for my First Readers Club. That’s it! The First Readers Club is my…

  • I took your feedback from my rough poster ideas and fleshed them out. Now I need your help in picking one image to use for the poster of my What Happens Next series of interactive graphic novels. I’ll be giving the printed poster to people who buy the books from me. Thanks for your help!

  • I know, I know, I just had a new book release 2 months agoโ€”but this is book 2 in the series and itโ€™s so fun and Iโ€™m very excited to share it with you! Science Fair Frenzy is the second in my new series of interactive graphic novels, featuring 240 pages and more than 25…

  • Iโ€™m thrilled to share this 3-sided, 9-foot mural I created for Orem City Center Park! The mural is my celebration of our community and its many culturesโ€”our individual colors rich and vibrant, and playing off each other. One personโ€™s smile becomes anotherโ€™s hairline, as we are united in our differences and varieties. (You might also…

  • Iโ€™ve spent the last 6 months working in this sketchbook. Scribbling my last page of character designs, story notes, and testing out new drawing tools felt surreal, since Iโ€™m still very much in the thick of everything happening on these pages. Itโ€™s a conversation I havenโ€™t finished, though the pages they occupy have been filled.…

  • THIS REVIEW IS REPOSTED FROM PAIGES & LALYPOPS Reading age 7-10 Genre Realistic fiction Publisher First Second Publication date April 11, 2023 1 book, two reviews; Co-review with my little sister Laly (10) Can you survive the talent show? Find out by reading Talent Show Troubles. Megan is your character in this story. Whoever you…

  • Iโ€™m making a poster for my new interactive graphic novel, Talent Show Troubles, and want to know: which of these layouts do you like best? (You donโ€™t have to know the book or characters, and these drawings arenโ€™t final. I just want to know which catches your eye.) P.S. Signed books will soon be available…