Latest and Greatest: Now and Forthcoming

For the Grown-ups

  • Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl

    Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl

    Thomas Nelson (June 30, 2009)

    A visual, poetic exploration of the narrative nature of the world and the personality of the Poet behind it all.
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For the Kids (and Grownups too)

  • Leepike Ridge

    Leepike Ridge

    Random House (May 22, 2007)

    What Tom finds under Leepike Ridge - a castaway, four graves, a tomb, and buried treasure-will answer questions he hadn't known to ask and change his life forever.
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  • 100 Cupboards

    100 Cupboards

    Random House (December 26, 2007)

    Twelve-year-old Henry York wakes up one night to find bits of plaster in his hair. Two knobs have broken through the wall above his bed and one of them is slowly turning... Henry scrapes the plaster off the wall and discovers cupboards of all different sizes and shapes. Through one he can hear the sound of falling rain. Through another he sees a glowing room-with a man pacing back and forth! Henry soon understands that these are not just cupboards, but portals to other worlds.

  • Dandelion Fire

    Dandelion Fire

    Random House (February 24, 2009)

    Henry York never dreamed his time in Kansas would open a door to adventure—much less a hundred doors. But a visit to his aunt and uncle’s farm took an amazing turn when cupboard doors, hidden behind Henry’s bedroom wall, revealed themselves to be portals to other worlds. Now, with his time at the farm drawing to a close, Henry makes a bold decision—he must go through the cupboards to find the truth about where he’s from and who his parents are. Following that trail will take him from one world to another, and ultimately into direct conflict with the evil of Endor.

    Chestnut King

    Random House (January 26, 2010)

Everything Else:

Storybook Projects: Now and Forthcoming


  • The Dragon and the Garden
    The Old Stories (with illustrator Peter Bentley):
    The Dragon and the Garden Canon Press (May, 2007)
  • In the Time of Noah
    In the Time of Noah
    Canon Press (May, 2007)

Drawing Board: Sometime or Never

Moses, Keep Your Hands Up
Novel, dark literary humor.
The Blands
Storybook (with illustrator Mark Beauchamp)
Thrones
Teen Novels, pre-Persian mythology fiction in two parts

Sampling of Shorts: Fiction, Essays, Reviews

Esquire, "The Rise and Fall of Circumcision" (February, 2007).
Books and Culture, "Tannhauser Rides Again" (May/June, 2007).
Chattahoochee Review, "Conversations with Tod" (Summer, 2006).
Books and Culture, "Father Brown Fakes the Shroud" (March/April, 2005).