When my son was 3 he discovered Owls and fell in love.
A year later he started to tell us stories about Owl Boy, Shark Boy, Deer Girl and the “League of Rescuers.” Back in those days the Rescuers were generally in the business of saving baby animals from things like tornadoes, broken wind turbines, and erupting volcanoes. Mostly what I was writing at the time were short horror stories (see VINE WORLD, also available here on this site, for example) but listening to my son spin yarns about the latest chick, puppy, or lamb to be rescued from a pyrocastic lava flow got me thinking…
A few months later, I had a rough draft of OWL BOY AND THE VOODOO PRIEST. This series, and yes it will be a series, is darker and a little scarier than the stories my son used to tell (the baby animals are sitting this one out). But it’s also a ton of fun, it’s set in one of the world’s great cities, and I think the character is ultimately true to the spirit of the original Owl Boy and his friends… The League of Rescuers!!!
I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.