I had read [Charles] Dickens's novels were often published serially. I thought it would be fun to write a book, just sitting down and writing a chapter every day, not knowing what would happen next. So that's how I wrote the first draft. And then of course I had to go back and make sure everything worked and change things.
Lynne Rae PerkinsI [drinking coffee] for about an hour, I get dressed and go down in my studio, and that's a different kind of working.
Lynne Rae PerkinsI'm heavily influenced by Edward Ardizzone, how he has people talking in little speech bubbles. I love those. And also Edward Gorey. Those are two of my favorite people.
Lynne Rae Perkins