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Musings about some of my favorite fantasy literature for young readers, comics old and new, the peculiar publishing industry, the future of books, kids today, and the writing process.

11 January 2012

Ladies’ Man


From Bryan Lee O‘Malley’s Scott Pilgrim one-shot, available for free from ComiXology.

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About the Author

J. L. BELL is a writer and reader of fantasy literature for children. His favorite authors include L. Frank Baum, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper. He is an Assistant Regional Advisor in the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators, and was the editor of Oziana, creative magazine of the International Wizard of Oz Club, from 2004 to 2010.

Living in Massachusetts, Bell also writes about the American Revolution at Boston 1775.

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The Centennial Edition of L. Frank Baum’s fantasy novel John Dough and the Cherub, with illustrations by John R. Neill and a new introduction by J. L. Bell, is on sale now through Hungry Tiger Press.


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