What is next? I actually just completed a biography on Jimi Hendrix, that’s written in verse. It’s written as a song. It’s done for Roaring Brook Press. And I had a blast writing I don’t know when you’ll see it, because I just turned it in very recently. Next year I have a project coming up called Pick-up Game, that I edited with Mark Aaronson. And that is a very unique project because it’s a number of authors including Walter Dean Myers, Bruce Brooks, Joe Bruchac, Sharon Flake, Robert Lipsyte. We have Robert Burleigh. A lot of these names and I got to edit them and I’m probably the novice of the group.
But the idea is that it takes place at a basketball court in New York City, West 4th St., which is actually where I took my very first images that got me into children’s books. And one team starts off playing, and as teams lose, the other author picks up the thread. So they become the next team on the court, I filled in, I didn’t write any stories myself, but I filled in the gaps with poems and photographs.
To tie it all together. So even though it’s an anthology it’s all connected. It reads as one story because characters that are in the very first game still appear later but there’s a new take on them because there’s another author writing about them. So I just got a chance to see it in book form, it’s not completely, completely done. It’ll be out in Spring 2011.
But it looked great. It’s a completely different kind of project. After that I am working on other new projects, getting some things out of my head onto paper that I’m choosing to flesh out. But there’s still plenty of irons in the fire.
