If you’re the sort of person who likes to deep into trivia about your favorite authors, or if you’re just bored and browsing the internet–then you’ll love this post.
How about some shots of the knick knacks around my workspace, so you can get a feel of where I write every day? Take a gander at the sinister laboratory where my most fiendish creations have been birthed muah-ha-ha:
Above, you have a Dilbert cartoon I’ve saved for years, since back in my day job days. It was a reminder that I had places I wanted to go in life…
At the other end of that corkboard next to my desk, two things that make me happy: a note from my son, and Bob Ross’ smiling face on a tin of mints. (The purple and gray spongy stuff is sound insulation for recording.)
My magnet board of my travels across the US of A. Can you guess now why so many of my books feature national parks?
Here’s a piece of artwork I purchased in the shadow of Uluru in the Australian outback. I love this thing. What an adventure it was to move to the other side of the world for a while.
This is going to take some time to explain. It’s sorta like an art installation. Over on the right, you have a Star Wars AT-ST walker, piloted by some alien monster guy. At the foot is a (pre-cancelled) Cara Dunne, and they are currently about to assault the Friends set.
You can also see the Mandalorian at the top left of the set, poised to attack. But the real story is at the bottom middle. There, you can see Rachel and Grok, who have declared their love and are going all Pulp-Fiction-restaurant-scene up in here. It’s chaos. Joey and Phoebe are definitely gonna eat bullets.
Is that too weird? It makes me laugh, so I keep it there.
Random shots in my office: A giant Reese’s coffee mug with darth maul peeking his adorable head out. A Grim Jim Garbage Pail Kid that I’ve owned since fourth grade. An old-timey Colorado postcard, and a boomerang I bought in Australia.
And here is The Board, where all my books enter the gauntlet, where I frantically race to write words against the deadlines written here. It’s both my favorite thing and the bane of my existence, at the same time.
Finally, my signed Oatmeal print. I love this quote and I take many meanings from it. Also, there’s an un-blurred glimpse at the top of The Board!