![]() ![]() He's taught one or two classes a semester in the journalism and mass communications department at Cal State Long Beach since 2006. Earned his first newspaper paycheck at the Belleville (Ill.) News-Democrat, fled the Midwest for Los Angeles Daily News and finally ended up at the Orange County Register. Earned a master's degree at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. with degrees in English and Communications. Graduated from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Ore. He grew up, in order, in California, Arkansas, Kentucky and Oregon. ![]() He regularly covers the Oscars and the Emmys, goes to Comic-Con and Coachella, reviews pop music, and conducts interviews with authors and actors, musicians and directors, a little of this and a whole lot of that. Peter Larsen has been the Pop Culture Reporter for the Orange County Register since 2004, finally achieving the neat trick of getting paid to report and write about the stuff he's obsessed about pretty much all his life. ![]()
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![]() Some time later I read it out to my writing class. ![]() No, her illness progressed and she passed away from ovarian cancer in 2006. But, you couldn’t finish it at the time, when she was ill? Someone and something close to your heart. I wanted to make her smile with my silly tale of Mavis and Dot – because they were our invented personae… we used to love hunting around auction houses and charity shops together and we called each other Mavis and Dot. It started off as a short story I wrote for my best friend, who was very ill. Despite being very different, they form a friendship and lots of adventures and mishaps start from there. The story is about two eccentric ladies of a certain age who retire to the seaside and then find they are lonely. Mavis and Dot took me over twelve years to write. ![]() Since we last spoke you have published another novel but it is not a straightforward telling of a story? ![]() ![]() ![]() No, it won’t be easy, but the joy in a Graeme Base book can be the thrill of the chase. But don’t worry, you can sneak a peek at the top-secret solution if you need to. The Eleventh hour : a curious mystery by Base, Graeme. ![]() It will take a clever sleuth to deduce the thief’s identity. The fun of poring over the artwork for hidden messages and significant clues is matched by the joy of a birthday as described in the text-witty, clever, laugh-out-loud verses that are just as unusual, surprising, and full of life. The rhyming text and lavish illustrations each provide clues, and it’s up to the reader to piece them together and decide whodunit! The culprit could be any of a number of exotically costumed animal guests, from a pig dressed as an admiral to a pair of giraffes in tutus to a zebra gone punk.Īs in Base’s hugely popular bestseller Animalia, his lush, intricately detailed illustrations in The Eleventh Hour comprise a sort of visual hide-and-seek. But a mystery is afoot, for in the midst of the games, music, and revelry, someone has eaten the birthday feast. ![]() When Horace the elephant turns 11, he celebrates in style by inviting his exotic friends to a splendid costume party. From the author of the international bestseller Animalia! ![]() |