Detective B. Tull in No Time For Snickerdoodles
Detective B. Tull was planning to spend his day off baking snickerdoodles—but his friends keep calling him with mysteries to solve.
With his trusty notebook, keen detective skills, and a sugary treat to perk him up, B. Tull sets out to help his pals. But when his own cookies and kitchen table suddenly disappear, he finds himself at the center of his most puzzling case yet.
No Time For Snickerdoodles is a cozy and humorous mystery about friendship, curiosity, and the surprising ways a good mystery can bring friends together.
Perfect for young readers who love mysteries, fun animals, cozy adventures, and lots of heart.
How Was The Book Made?
I created this book, first with pencil and paper. It’s always a joy to pull the ideas out of my brain this way. It never comes out perfect, but after many hours, familiar faces emerge and I know my characters have arrived.
The drawing part comes easy to me, but then I had write the story, and that always overwhelms me a bit. I made multiple drafts of the book, which ended very different than the final book, and I showed it to an agent for feedback. We worked through the story for many months, then took a break. Eventually, I picked it back up and had some new ideas. Every book is a little like a mystery. There are problem to solve, clue as to how to fix them, and you have to take the time to think through it all. I showed the books to some more friends (friends are the best!), and finally landed on a better draft.
Then I sketched out the book illustrations and made a “dummy book” by hand.
More fixing, more thinking, more reading the dummy book to myself and my friends. I probably worked on this book for 2 years before it was ready to illustrate. I used my ipad to draw and color the illustrations by hand. After they were ready, I handed them over to Melissa to layout into a book. She did a fabulous job. I ordered proofs and made corrections. Showed it to family and friends to catch every last typo (there were many), and then uploaded it to the interwebs.
Now it’s here!
D. Tull in No Time For Snickerdoodles, is a 56 page book with three short stories, perfect for read aloud, or early readers: ages 2-8.