The Ann Arbor Book Festival street vendors event is nearly here.
Saturday, May 17:
STREET FESTIVAL 10 am -6 pm
On North University Street in Ann Arbor.

We will have a table with books, posters & cards for sale.
The UFO Cumooter 2006 will on display.


I will sign copies of "Who's Behind the Fairy Doors?"
We will answer most questions (evaded others... "hey! what's THAT!?>"*).


(*it's a diversionary technique for questions which will remain UNanswered)

Well the Urban Fairy Door at the Selo-Shevel Gallery was repaired after a l-o-n-g winter.

THEN...new tickets appeared at the Ark! Spring Peepers, I think!

BUT the very next day the tickets are jammed and 42 are left on the sidewalk.

Sunday, April 13: 1st Annual Fairy Festival
(Co-Sponsored by Pink Heels and Art 634)
Celebrate the arrival of spring and the fairies at Art 634. Jonathan Wright, official fairyologist and author will be present reading excerpts from his book. There will be fairy activities including the creation of fairy artwork, tea party, face painting, scavenger hunt, and more.

Event Time: 12 noon to 4 p.m. Cost: Free!

As always plenty of things have been happening.
The urban fairy door was trashed. Attributed to "stupid human tricks"™.

I finally got to see behind the fairy door at Hathaway's Hideaway on Ashley.  Pretty fancy!

I have received reports of fairy doors in Jackson, Michigan.

"Who's Behind the Fairy Doors?" was #12 on the best sellers list for Nicola's Books in 2007. Not bad for only being available for 3/4 of the year. Was just behind "The Golden Compass" (and that has a major motion picture). 

Well... UFO World Headquarters is officially empty.
A new location is pending. I will probably have a temporary set up next week...

Well that event went quite well! A nice turn out, especially considering that it was a drizzly Monday at dinner time.
Pictures on urban-fairies...just scroll down.

Ok, the Meet the Author (and his accomplice) event is nearly here...
or there> Monday, November 12 at Nicola's Books <(clik and scroll down)

Circumstantial evidence certainly...but...

The Goblins may be moving in:
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Some unique aspects of this "fairy door":

• It is quite a bit taller than the others found in Ann Arbor. ~11 in. vs ~7 in.
• The location is somewhat less "seemly". (There is quite a bit of pigeon poo there)
• Because of the proximity to the fairy Ticket window at The Ark and the mistreatment of the tickets... I am suspicious of the intentions and habits of the occupants of this door. Circumstantial, I know, but I will be watching.

It's nearly Halloween & They're back on the porch!
I brought home a pretty big and VERY heavy pumpkin for carving. Before I could whittle a face in it, there was a fairy cottage with a working chimney-stem and shuttered window-ears! Somewhat more elaborate than last year.

Whew! We made it back from the FaerieCon in Philadelphia.
Pretty crazy. We met some of the Big shots of the Faery World... writers and illustrators.
Brian & Wendy Froud, Ari Berk, Michael Hague, Charles Vess, Holly Black...

It'll take me a bit to regroup and put down the details.

The  Autumn edition of Faerie Magazine came out.It includes a 3 page article about the urban fairies and fairy doors in Ann Arbor.

Also the November issue of a British magazine, The Doll's House Magazine, is out with a 2 page spread on the urban fairies and fairy doors.

Kathleen & I will be at

Nicola's Books
2513 Jackson Rd.
Westgate Shopping Center
Ann Arbor, Michigan

734-662-0600

at 6pm, Monday, November 12, 2007
For a "Who's Behind the Fairy Doors?" booksigning
and story telling by Kathleen
& interactive fairy drawing with Jonathan
(illustrating type drawing not fairy-winning type drawing)

We will also answer questions about urban fairies, fairy doors and our projects.

A while back I received an e-mail inquiry about the possibilities of urban fairies at the Google building in Ann Arbor. Today when I went to investigate... I did indeed find a fairy door to photograph.

Jake Woods passed away on the 16th of September.  Most knew him as "Shakey Jake".

I've been really busy! Too much on non fairy focus projects. I hope to get back to it soon! Kathleen is polishing her chapter book with an editor. Her picture book text has been refined and I am working on revising and fleshing out the illustrations in accordance to those changes. THEN... we will ship off the dummies to publishers.

We (Kathleen & I) are going to attend the FaerieCon in October in Philadelphia. That should be fun, with many "big shots" of the faerie world there.

That was great!
Our daughters came along to help at the signing and it was well attended! I met some more great people, including another contributor to the book ~ Maddie, from page 4!

Thanks to everyone!

Book Signing
"Who's Behind the Fairy Doors?"
Borders Books Store #1
612 East Liberty, Ann Arbor
(734) 668-7652

Saturday, August 25, 2007
1:00 pm



Funny, On Tuesday, August 7, while "Up North" I received a call from Sweetwaters Café that people were there for a book signing. Apparently it was in the Ann Arbor Observer that was a scheduled event. ummm... not so much. If I had been in town, I would have hopped over there. Sorry for any inconvenience it may have caused.

Whoo hooo!
"Who's Behind the Fairy Doors?" moved up from #5 (June) to #1 (July) bestsellers list at Nicola's Books.

Luckily in the NON-fiction, after all, I can't beat Harry.


jonathan

Well PeZz has, once again, entered his 2006 UFO cumooter, alternative fuel (Vernors™ with Mentos™ öber thruster) fairy vehicle in the Rolling Sculpture Car Show. The show will be downtown Ann Arbor on Friday, July 13 from 2-10 pm..

Well, lookee, lookee! Nicola's Books Best seller list for June in NON-Fiction
(hmmm hows that for people who think fairies are fictional?)
...still behind Al Gore (ain’t THAT an inconvienient truth?~ heeheee)

For an expanded list of Nicola’s Books Bestsellers, visit www.nicolasbooks.com!
Nicola’s Books June 2007
Adult Bestsellers
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
2. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
3. Lean Mean Thirteen by Janet Evanovich
4. The Overlook by Michael Connelly
5. Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon
PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
2. Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky
3. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
4. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
5. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
HARDCOVER NON-FICTION
1. The Assault on Reason by Al Gore
2. The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn & Hal Iggulden
3. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
4. The Antiques Investigator by Judith Miller
5. Who’s Behind the Fairy Doors? by Jonathan Wright
PAPERBACK NON-FICTION
1. Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
2. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
3. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
4. The Final Season by Tom Stanton
5. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

At this time of year the fireflies are out in numbers. GENERALLY the fireflies are quite benign... However there may be an arsonist or two in the bunch.


They have torched the fairy door at the top of Jefferson Market. Luckily it is a brick building and no other damage incurred. A police report has been filed with the Ann Arbor Police Department.