Judge This Book By Its Cover

Fibble: The Fourth Circle of Heck comes out in paperback in April. To celebrate, all of the Heck books (well…maybe not the first one) will be given new covers. Nothing huge, just tweaked and simplified. Here’s the new Fibble cover. What do you think? Can you spot the differences?

Variety is the Spice of Heck

Finally: some Heck movie news…in Variety, no less! So exciting!

2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 4,000 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 3 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

Encore…Encore!

“Enjoy an encore performance of Stage & Studio on Tuesday, December 6th at 11 am on KBOO 90.7 FM. Dmae Roberts talks with author Dale Basye about his children’s book series, Heck. The fourth book in the series, Fibble: The Fourth Circle of Heck, was released in May of 2011. Basye will also sing songs that he wrote for the series, and read passages from the books.

Heck follows Milton and Marlo Fauster, a brother and sister who get sent to Heck after a fatal marshmallow bear explosion. The books follow them as they make their way through the otherwordly reform school that is Heck. In Fibble, Milton and Marlo find that they’ve switched places…”

Tune In To Heck!

Hear me blather on about stuff Sunday 12/4 @ 5 p.m., on 107.1 fm or on the web at KZME.fm!

Snivel: The Fifth Circle of Heck

Though it won’t come out until May 22 2012, here is a sneak peak at Bob Dob’s fabulous new cover for the fifth installment in the Heck series!

Fibble: The Fourth Circle of Heck Nominated for Pulitzer Prize!

Not really, but here’s a cool little video trailer for the book.

Heck Groupon. SAVE!!

Buy a box of 12 (that’s almost a dozen) HARDCOVER HECK: WHERE THE BAD KIDS GO books for ONLY $48! Yes, you read that right! And that includes shipping! (Unless you live in some really faraway—to me—expensive-to-ship-to place). Fine, OK, I’ll even sign them. Geez.

Expires: Soonish

Limit: Only your imagination.

Must be 21 or older, or younger than 21, or EXACTLY 21.

Must have access to money and mailmen/women.

If interested, contact heck@wherethebadkidsgo.com within mind-your-own-business hours.

 

* Fart Spray not included.

Radio Heck

I had the great pleasure of sitting across from Dmae Roberts—Peabody award-winning independent radio artist/producer—to fill up her weekly half-hour Stage & Studio show on Portland community radio station KBOO (it scares me to even type those call-letters). Dmae (pronounced Dee-May) asked a number of thoughtful questions and allowed me to read and—gasp—sing a few songs. Give it a listen!SNS61411-DaleEBayseAlso, be sure to check out the Stage and Studio website for more information!

FIBBLE: THE FOURTH CIRCLE OF HECK…

…is in stores TODAY. And hopefully tomorrow too.

If it ISN’T in your local bookstore, then raise an unholy ruckus as only you Heck fans can. And what DO you Heck fans want to be called, anyway?