Books > Night of the Living Lawn Ornaments

Boots and Pieces: I had a dream about a girl running into a monster in the woods and being completely unimpressed. I tried writing it as a ten minute play, but it really wasn't more than a sketch, so I decided to try to expand it into a book. It worked, and the dream became Tina and Arlie's first encounter with the monster. Curse of Cuddles McGee: I wanted to do a story with a curse in it, and so I thought Arlie and Ty could come across a cursed grave, and with their luck, it would be a cursed pet grave. So I tried to figure out which pet would be the goofiest, but with the largest capacity for destruction. I've seen hamsters trying to swallow grapes bigger than their heads whole, and I know what they can do to a toilet paper tube, so it was a no brainer -- Arlie and Ty had to go up against an undead hamster. Night of the Living Lawn Ornaments: My dog, Binky, had an orange kangaroo squeaky toy that she really loved. One day while I was gone, she managed to completely undo the stitching on the top of his head, leaving her kangaroo with a gaping head wound and brain fluff strewn around on the floor. And my first thought when I found them was thank goodness he's not alive to complain about it.