Bubble Bath Pirates—10 years later

An early sketch for the jacket.

It's wild to think, but Bubble Bath Pirates! celebrates its 10th year in print today.

The book was inspired by a visit I paid to my sister Lynn's house. Her two youngest boys, Matthew and Griffin, were acting a bit hyper as she was trying to shuffle them off to the bath. My nephews, then six and four years old, had these pirate costumes strewn across the couch, as it was just a few weeks past Halloween.  I went home and immediately started sketching the characters and drafting the story.

Here I am with Matt and Griff around 2002. 

And at a wedding in the summer of 2012. They're a bit bigger, right?  I'm so proud of what they both have achieved already! Matt is a freshman in college and Griff is studying the culinary arts in high school.

And here are a few shots of their youth immortalized in print:

You can learn more about how I wrote Bubble Bath Pirates! in this excerpt from my sketchbook, Monkey Boy to Lunch Lady. 

It's International Talk Like a Pirate Day!

Trailer-palooza

I just finished making YouTubable book trailers for my backlist. (All part of a major rehaul of StudioJJK.com, more on that soon!)









They will all soon be neatly organized on my website, but in the meantime, you can catch all of my trailers at YouTube.com/StudioJJK.

best present ever

This Sunday, my first book turns ten years old. HappyBirthdayAuthor.com unknowingly has given me the most amazing anniversary present ever. Check out "The JJK Reading Experience".

And check out the awesome postcards sent from Mrs. VanRaepenbusch's 2nd graders. They made 50 postcards for me in honor of the postcards I sent to publishers when I was trying to break into publishing. (This is a part of the author study found in the above link.)

Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day!

Bubble Bath Pirates fan mail

I'm trying to catch up on writing back to letters that I've gotten over the past few months. And then - I found this letter and these accompanying drawings. Priceless...



If you have a letter or drawing, I'd love to see them! You can send them to me here:
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
PO Box 60155
Florence, MA 01062