Is there a headshot of you I can use in a blog post about your work?
I'm sure there is. Or, you can draw one. Trace around the bottom of a round can to draw a circle, then you can use smaller round things to draw the glasses, my nose, etc., or you can do them freehand. Good luck!
Have you seen the youtube of the man who swims with thr polar bear? Is that Larry?
I have not seen it. I do not know, but if the polar bear eats the man it is not Larry. Larry would never do anything like that.
I was introduced to your work by Raphael Aloysius Lafferty. I find your work quite cerebral.
Was wondering if you ever do public readings of your work. I’d be glad to attend and would
hope to pick your brain afterward.
You are not the first one to have this idea. You can submit your bid to the firm of Burke and Hare LLP, auction to be concluded at a date to be determined.
I read my first book by myself! It was daddys. It was Fat Elliot and The Gorilla. You are good. I like it alot. Daddy say you are a jeenyus. I like you. I am 4.
Chronologically?
Love your books and how you read them. Call me sick, but I would pay you fifty bucks to sit in front of a bunch of kids from Barney and Friends and read the first two pages of Young Adult Novel, with a lot of close ups of the five-year-old kids reacting in dismay as you read the whole thing. Then Barney trying to interrupt the whole thing to start up a singalong. But unknown to him, the song has been changed to Nirvana’s %u201CFrancis Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle%u201D . You pick up a mic and join the kids in a merry hopping dance and sing
with the closing titles rolling down. That’s called TV history in the making.
You're sick. Incidentally, don't mess with Barney. That's not a costume.
Tell Doctor Weiss that he should add the Soul Jazz Orchestra to your podcasts.
This sounds like a Pinkwater anthem or something: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OURc_W6SlKA
I am very pleased to leave the musical and artistic choices around here to Daktari Ed. He is a genius and polymath.  However, you have suggested.
Here is some HTML code to make your own eye-brow waggling Pinkwater:
<a href=”http://pho.to/1bA7c” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://media.share.pho.to/1bA7c/22cd145a_l.gif”/></a>
Have fun!
Except, in real life those are not eyebrows. They are specially trained caterpillars.
Thank you. My eleven year old daughter just loves your books! She became hooked with “Adventures of a cat-whiskered girl.” She bought Yggyssey, but said she can’t read that until she gets the other book, The Neddiad (which she is currently looking for). She’s also looking for Escape to Dwerg Mountain. You’ve made a huge difference in a child’s life! She was already turned onto reading, but to keep her turned onto reading at this age and with all of the technology says quite a bit! You ROCK, as she would say! Thank you!
Thank you.
Tell your eleven year old daughter that the books can be read in any order. I planned it that way. Also, Escape to Dwerg Mountain doesn't exist at this time. Bushman Lives! exists. The Neddiad is my favorite, no, maybe Bushman Lives! is my favorite. I don't know.
I rock.
Hey Daniel. I read on your Wikipedia page about an interview in 1978 where you discussed psychedelic/hallucinogenic undertones in The Big Orange Splot. I’m unable to find that interview and I was wondering if you could discuss those undertones.
Thanks
-Cooper.
I only discuss that in undertones.
I wrote my first book, and I think I need an agent. Any recommendations or suggestions?
Back in the 20th century when I had to fall back on being a writer, there were not so many agents. What people did then was get a publisher, and then after a book or two get an agent. Now there are a lot of agents. People look for an agent and then possibly get published. I suggest the following in shopping for an agent: However the relationship begins is how it will always be--so if an agent you are considering hiring treats you like they are doing you a great big favor...well, you see my point.
Aloha.
Your books are so colorful! Even the chapter books have so many descriptive words that employ color! Are you going to do some more pictures for your books?
A hui hou
Akoni Kaleo
Mostly other better artists are doing the pictures these days--but I might possibly. Mahalo!
Mr. Pinkwater,
I%u2019m writing today to thank you for thoroughly warping my sense of humor during my formative years. Since junior high, I have been plagued with the visualizations of chickens standing on the heads of people during intense verbal confrontations, endured extreme frustration in perfecting the %u201Cmissile whistle%u201D and obsessively timed the length of time it takes strangers to smoke cigarettes. It%u2019s usually more than five. As a result of my exposure to Alan Mendelsohn: Boy from Mars, The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death and Lizard Music, I%u2019ve made awkward jokes in social settings that ended conversations, purchased hundreds of dollars worth of bio feedback equipment and put myself and others in danger by producing impromptu audible distractions at %u201Cinconvenient%u201D times. I actually caused a car accident during one of my outbursts. I can only now admit that because the statute of limitations has run out. I would like to blame all of the this on you and only you, but I%u2019m currently trying to find a more %u201Clucrative source%u201D with which to place the blame. Right now it%u2019s a tossup between plastics additives and Morton chicken pot pies.
I don%u2019t know why it took me so long to look you up. Now in my forties, I look forward to exploring more of your literature and talents. I know when you saw the name John Newbery you were thinking, %u201CHoly Shit!%u201D and I%u2019m sorry about that. I%u2019ve been trying to get a medal myself without luck. I wrote to them and they told me I had to %u201Cearn it%u201D and that I couldn%u2019t %u201Cbribe%u201D them to accidentally make an extra copy and send it to me. Anyway, thank you again for the influence and delight that you have given me and so many other kids out there! I noticed that you are listed as living in Memphis, Tennessee. I live in Little Rock. If you are ever over this way, please don%u2019t hesitate to ask me to lunch. I might even be able to borrow my Mom%u2019s credit card and treat you!
John Newbery
Little Rock, Arkansas
I will acknowledge that many of my readers are quite weird people, but no one can say whether the books contributed to their weirdness, or attracted the already weird. I think a better case can be made for your own peculiarities being the result of those chicken pot pies. I do not live in Memphis, Tennessee, and have not for close to 70 years. Thanks for your edifying post.
I thought Mr. Pinkwater might want to see this Bushman-related story from today’s Chicago Tribune:
Thanks! I find this very interesting. I added it to my notes for a forthcoming work.
Mr. Pinkwater,
Thanks for your reply to my message a while back (Jan. 13) about the eventual appearance of Yobgorgle in the podcast, I’m eagerly looking forward to it. By the way, did you know that certain classes of submarines (in the US Navy) really were known as “pig boats”? In any case, I can’t wait to hear your podcast of Yobgorgle, I really loved reading it, many years ago! cheers, and best wishes, bh
Of course I knew. This sort of thing is covered in my correspondence course in authoring--soon to be available, watch this space. Enjoy the podcast.
I was wondering how you keep motivated in writing all those books. I mean, you make it look like you just sit on a floating pillow and reveal your dreams, then get your wife to illustrate your scrolls, and then people give you money. Seriously, how do you keep motivated to get up in the morning and write another book? It must get daunting or something.
I don't know what you mean by motivated. Or daunting. Mostly I sit on a floating pillow and reveal my dreams, then get my wife to illustrate my scrolls, and then people give me money. You figured it out perfectly--except for the floating pillow--where can I get one of those?
