Storytelling Dreamer Mugs

'I thought I had a novel in me, but it turned out to be nothing more than a status update.'

Julian Barnes

Young Frank Lloyd Wright

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

I should be a writer when I grow up...

'Peter the Flying Hippo is my favorite storybook character without any merchandising tie-ins.'

"After years of cartoon rejections, Bill stooped to trying a little shameless product placement."

"I don't care about the rating on Goodreads. We're reading Cinderella!"

'Call for you on the cream corn line.'

'I'm in my Blue period.'

Bookworm Sleepover

"I don't think I can express what I have to say in just colored paper and glue."

'The C minus was sufficient. I didn't need the advice against hiring a literary agent.'

Shadow Puppet Bunny Threatened By Shadow Hawk

Here be dragons.

'I love my new easylife artist's easel.'

ET Mishap

he tries to fly all the time but actually never gets airborne

'I have a best selling novel on the tip of my tongue...'

Real Life/Surreal Life

Great works I plan to complete during the lockdown.

'The housing market may be flat, but pillow-fort construction is blooming!'

Susie knew she could rely on big Ted for comfort.

"Where the wild things were."

' 'Cat in the Window'...chapter 14...'

Through the Looking Glass - Queen Alice with Frog

Schrodinger's Black Box

'Read me the one about the ant and the obsessive-compulsive grasshopper.'

'As a famous writer, could you do something to help jumpstart my career?'

''Raining cats and dogs' is just a phrase, Alix.'

“If I start pressing these, I’ll never ever ever get out of here.”

Biggles has a more staid adventure.

'No, you can't use your last wish, to wish for another three wishes!'

'Nope. I didn't see any dogfish.'

"I've given up on the novel. There's more money in writing inspirational memes."