puttyhead.bsky.social
Someone once said that i was a writer. Huh. Maybe.
If so, you can buy all of my books from IndieBound and support a local independent bookstore.
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Steamed Hamlets
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That’s the kind of painting that would END a day.
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I’ve been saying for a while that it’s not really “generative A.I.”, it’s really more like “repurposive A.I.”
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I’ve done all three!
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Ooh, i’d KILL for a balanced review! Well, i wouldn’t actually KILL, but i’m sure i’d taunt or poke or something. Er, no, let’s just say i’d, um... never mind.
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Roses have colors
Violets do too
The world is a shit-show
Eat cake
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I should add that to the pile.... But also, my own book, which nobody has heard of or bought, chronicles the stupid things that happen in a small town when stupid people who don’t understand what a government is put themselves in charge.
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I kinda wish, whenever the current prez says something stupid, every D would just say “what a fucking loser.” Like, over and over again until his head melts.
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Bleet. They’re bleets. I’ll die on this hill.
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And then its sequel “Box Cars.”
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Technology. Single-use-only webs. Eco-friendly biodegradable. Also, it’s comics.
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Thanks for reading this far! Do i know where my ideas come from? No. Will i write more? Yes. Can you make me happy? Certainly! Buy a book or three!
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28/28: The Rat Family
The concept of the story came to me while i was dealing with the many many mice in our summer house. I decided to make them rats, though. Basically it’s about a family of rats who are captured one by one until the smallest one is left. (It ends happily, though!)
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27/28: Penelope Ye and her Ghost Number Three
I taught a few snowboard lessons to a 9-year-old girl named Caroline Ye. She kept dramatically dying on the slopes and said that whenever she died, she got a ghost. I told her that i was going to write a book about it.
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26/28: The Creepity Crud
I got this idea after buying a couple of drawings from Ben Bender which had a beautiful goopy monster in them. It’s a story of a gooey slime that slurps people down into its lair because it’s looking for friends.
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25/28: The Fettler’s Shop
There’s not really much of a plot to this story, but it uses a lot of words like doodad and thingummy and whatsit. And Thomas D. Jensen did a crazy fantastic job illustrating it!
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24/28: No, Baby! No!
This story came to me in a half-awake dream state the morning of August 4, 2022. It’s a bit gruesome, but fun and crazy. Basically, a baby keeps doing things that will cause death and destruction, with the baby’s parents barely saving the day each time.
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23/28: Planet Zero
A rhyming excursion from planet to planet, each one having a problem that makes them unlivable. The travellers in the story eventually end back home on Planet Zero—Earth, with a pledge to take care of it. Always wanted to see this one illustrated with all different artists.
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22/28: The Witches of the Long Trail
The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators was having a contest—fifty scary short stories, 1 from each state. This was the second idea i had, a rhyming children's book type story. It is specific to Vermont and mentions places along the Long Trail.
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21/28: Horton Hauls a Huff
Having had a children's book editor note that my stories sounded “too much like Dr. Seuss,” i went ahead and wrote a Dr. Seuss story.
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20/28: The Alphabet from AAARRGH! to ZZzzz...
I’d had the idea for this for a while and came up with most of the rhymes while out on dog walks. Every letter is a nice sound effect with a rhyming couplet about it. Illustrated (fantastically!) by Len Peralta.
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19/28: Browny the Chicken
My dog Bulo got into the chicken coop at my friends’ farm and killed 44 of the 48 chicks in it. One of the four survivors was the only brown chicken. This horrible gory story about a chicken surviving being killed over and over came out of my head.
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18/28: Four and a Half
Ben Hatke is an author of books and graphic novels who i very much admire. In early September of 2019, his four-and-a-half year old daughter was killed in a horse-related accident. This tore me up, but i got the idea of a story about a little girl who stops growing up.
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17/28: Stinkalope Tex and the Poopapotamus
Completing the Stinkalope Tex “seasons” quadrilogy. I had the idea for the title of this book way back when i was finishing up the first Stinkalope Tex book, but it took a bunch of years until i wrote it. It's got a lot of poop in it.
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16/28: Stinkalope Tex and the Rescue
Part three of the Stinkalope Tex quadrilogy, where he heads out into a snowstorm by dogsled to rescue a downed plane.
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15/28: Ryder, Sky, & Emmaline
My friends Kara & Ryan, Josh & Meadow, and Nikki & Robbie all had their first kids in the year before i wrote this; Emmaline, Sky, and Ryder. Two of these three couples are farmers and i got the idea to write a book about kids on a farm.
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14/28: Punch a Nazi!
In 2017 there was a white-supremacist who got sucker-punched on live TV and Patton Oswalt started tweeting some hilarious tweets about always punching nazis. I took that and ran with it, writing a short little rhyming book about nazi-punching.
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13/28: The Smiley-Face Book
This is the only book i’ve published that i illustrated myself because that’s all i can draw—smiley faces.
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12/28: The Mighty Stranger
This was inspired by the website “A Mighty Girl” and is about a mysterious hero who saves people in the town and the search for who this stranger is.
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11/28: Donny Dumdum
Yes, this is about a certain narcissistic millionaire. Written in 2016, i’d hoped by now it would be out of date. Sigh.
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10/28: We Are Stars
This is a sad book about a sick girl who dies and becomes a star in the sky. I'm not sure how i feel about the whole ”after-death“ theme of the book, but it was an interesting idea to play with.
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9/28: Stinkalope Tex Visits Klutzville!
This was originally going to be a stand-alone book, but it wound up living in the same universe as Stinkalope Tex, with an appearance by him as well.
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8/28: Little Car
The full title of this book is:
Goodbye Little Car
Go On A Great Adventure
A Tale In Haiku
And yes, it's all in haiku. When i was in elementary school, we went to the beach and i let my purple Tonka dunebuggy roll into the surf, from which it never returned.
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7/28: Jam-Bo, Litta-Girl, and the Bullies
A comic-booky rappy story about two small kids who take on three bullies by using successively bigger and bigger words. I wrote this specifically for the illustrator Courtney Huddleston.
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6/28: Big Cat
This is my first book that does not have human beings as its main characters. I'm really a dog person, but this idea works with a cat. It's about a housecat who goes out to explore, becoming larger and larger. Illustrated by my friend Chrystal Cleary.
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5/28: Molly Rides
This book came to me as i was driving home from teaching snowboarding one day. It’s about a girl who breaks a ski and learns how to snowboard. Brian Berley, the illustrator, was someone i’d worked with and had never done a kid’s book before.
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4/28: The Six Sisters and their Flying Carpets
My first book to be published, mostly because the illustrator, Kristin Abbott, after reading a few of my books, liked this one the best.
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3/28: Alyssa Mae Foos and the Knitted World Order
I have a friend named Alyssa Foos (her middle name is NOT Mae) who knits and has postulated the Knitted World Order. I took her idea and made it into a story. A few years ago someone else published a similar story called “Too Much Yarn.”
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2/28 Dance of the Pillbugs
This is a reworking of the lyrics to a rock song by my friend Chuck Hawley’s band Splinter Fish. It's about a boy named Charlie who has all the toys in the world but would rather go out in the yard and play with pillbugs.
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Something, something, plot twist, something, something....
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Keep going, even when the blahs hit. It’ll be a grand thing.
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I bid four no-outclass.
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Dammit, wish i’d heard about this. hbarpress.com/Punch_a_Nazi...