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Where the heck have I been? Good question. I've been around, but not keeping up with the seriously grueling task that is my children's book blog. Such stress! My brother was in town visiting for a week and that led to a definite drop in productivity and a definite rise in grown-up beverages. For some reason the two are inversely proportional. But I'm back in business and serious this time!

Here's what's going on. Alethea from Los Angeles, CA has won the August Drawing Drawing. I realized that I never even posted it, so here it is or here it was...

Congratulations to Alethea, and thanks to everyone who entered!

As for the September Drawing Drawing, I'm thinking of making it have something to do with Max and Pinky's newest book, THE MYSTERY, which will be out October 14th. I think I'll select a sketch or illustration from one of the preliminary drafts of the story and select the winner the day the book is released. So anyone who has entered this month will be included, and anyone who hasn't entered, what are you waiting for, enter! I'll post the drawing-to-be tomorrow morning Arizona time.

Other than this I've been working on a new book. I'll post a few details from the sketches. Don't want to give too much away!

Thanks for sticking with my absence and this unusually long posting. Just exercising my typing fingers.

Your bud,
Maxwell

Congratulations to Jenny from Minnesota! She's the winner of the May Drawing Drawing. A slightly awkward exchange between two sheep at very different stages in life. Reminds me a lot of my college reunion this past weekend (I've got to start looking for a career...).

Your bud,

Maxwell

I'm out today and tomorrow, but don't forget to sign up and win this month's Drawing Drawing! I'll be selecting the winner Sunday night! Three exclamation points in one posting! Four!
Your bud,
Maxwell

The Drawing Drawing for the month of May

Sign up and win!

Late late late! I realized that I never posted the new Drawing Drawing on maxandpinky.com during the month of April! I hope nobody had their heart set on the seagull. This was the actual April Drawing Drawing...

Congratulations to Katie (not sure where she's from!) for winning the February Drawing Drawing! She'll be sending her address shortly, but in the meantime she says she can type and eat marshmallows at the same time.

Thanks to everyone who entered!

And remember, if you're in the Canton, NY area tomorrow I'll be reading and signing books at the Brewer Bookstore at 1:00. See you then!

Your bud,
Maxwell

Hey you!

Late late late. But here it is! The February Drawing of the Month.

Congratulations to Ken of Chesterfield, Missouri!
Ken has won the January Drawing Drawing, a rendition of Max and Pinky on a tiny desert island trying not to think about climate change! Did that only occur to me?


Thanks so much to everyone who entered. Wait, what's that you say? You're not Ken of Chesterfield, Missouri, and you still want to win a Drawing Drawing? Simply sign up to win the February Drawing! I'll be posting it within the next week or so, but go right ahead and enter now!

Best of luck!

Your bud,
Maxwell

I seem to have missed the Friday post I promised, but really had nothing to report. We had Thanksgiving yesterday, so Thursday we spent a leisurely day on the golf course, and then cooked steak on the grill for dinner to celebrate our 43rd anniversary that we DIDN'T get to celebrate last Wednesday. I even had one of my better rounds, breaking ninety, which is a very infrequent thing for me.

Am still working on rewrites...got stuck for a day or so this week, because I couldn't make up my mind if I want to stick with the first version, or to go in another direction completely, which will involve writing several new chapters and dumping the many of the old ones. A hard thing to do, especially when some of them are quite good--or maybe I should say I am quite attached to them, but they definitely would not fit into my 'new version.' I think I have decided to go in the new direction...it ties various parts together better, and cuts down on the great number of characters needed to send the MC from one environment to a totally different one. So progress is being made.

On Wednesday I had fun making a 'Thanksgiving craft' with my grandson, which started with going into the woods in search of brown pine cones. We found quite a few old weathered grey ones, but not too many brown ones, so it is a good thing I had some good ones from the craft store to back up our efforts. We made turkeys from pine cones and colored pipe cleaners, although O. insisted I call them by their correct name--chenille (whatever), which he read off the package. We stuck name tags on a post in each one to be used as place markers on Thanksgiving Day at his house. Today he was going to take one for show and tell at school. And now we can start on Christmas craft projects, since he likes to do a project each week.

I have just returned from our monthly Children's Writers' Club, where our presenter talked about the availability of grants for writers, and gave us several good websites for them...if anyone is interested in obtaining such a grant, let me know, and I'll send you the websites she gave us.

Have a good week, and have fun preparing for the holiday season.