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Less than three weeks before my book is released to the world, and things are about to get REAL. Lots of news, including book tour dates, the audio book, and a VIRTUAL BOOK SIGNING! Read on!

featured in The Rumpus, 4/22/15

Pandas seem to be my good luck animal; I’ve been on a show with Panda in the title and I also play one on World of Warcraft!

I got the great honor of doing assorted voices in Studio Ghibli’s When Marnie Was There, now in limited release. I’ve always loved their work (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke) and I think their English-version voices are always so spot-on and well-integrated with the movie. I have never been so happy to be an “additional voice”! […]

Forget about Jurassic Park and Star Wars and Transformers 28: When Toasters Revolt; the trailer of the summer is here: Mine! Yes, the trailer for Still Life Las Vegas, the one I worked on with Peter Hastings, where acclaimed Accordion Diva Gee Rabe dressed up and played for sweet music for us, has been officially introduced via St. […]

Looks like the good folks behind King of the Hill remembered me! Producers John Altshuler and Dave Krinsky are doing a new live action show for National Geographic Channel and they called me in. I played an ancient Chinese Man, and it was unfortunately easy to make me one. I also bore an uncanny resemblance to […]

This is especially true in publishing. Hi all! It’s been a red-letter day today. I started the morning from a Facebook message from rock star graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang (writer of Boxers/Saints and ABC: American Born Chinese), someone whose books my son Ben and I both love (hey, Boxers/Saints got Ben interested in reading about HISTORY, so […]

On a previous adventure in publishing, I wrote about the cover designer  Young Lin from St. Martin’s Press, who created a cover I would want my book to be judged by.  But what about inside the book? Who’s responsible for what that looks like? A month ago, I would have guessed— well, I wouldn’t have […]