cb-102509-metal-manA couple of Fridays ago, while my family and I were on the road to West Texas for a long — and long-anticipated — weekend in Fort Davis and Marfa, I received an equally anticipated message from my editor at Dial.

Paul Hoppe, she said, is on board to provide illustrations for my YA nonfiction book about impostors, masqueraders, what-have-you. How excited am I about this? Well, just know that it literally took maybe a second and a half of looking at his work for me to recognize that he was right for this project. Please, see his work for yourself.

So, while I was already eager to resume work on my manuscript revisions as soon as I got back from my vacation, knowing Paul’s going to be involved has given me even more of a boost. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to get back to those…