This, then, is the author’s photo as it will appear on the dust jacket of What We Found in the Sofa, unless somebody comes up with a better idea, like a picture of a sock puppet.
This is me, after getting the memo from my publisher that all Young Readers authors, with the exception of James Patterson, are expected to appear in publicity photos dressed as the Belgian comic book character Tintin. (My publisher is the American distributor of the Tintin books, so I suppose it makes some sort of sense, although, now that I think of it, the e-mail telling me to dress this way did end with the words snicker * snicker * snicker, in exactly that size font, so I’m beginning to wonder.)
This is me, after getting the memo from my publisher that all Young Readers authors, with the exception of James Patterson, are expected to appear in publicity photos dressed as the Belgian comic book character Tintin. (My publisher is the American distributor of the Tintin books, so I suppose it makes some sort of sense, although, now that I think of it, the e-mail telling me to dress this way did end with the words snicker * snicker * snicker, in exactly that size font, so I’m beginning to wonder.)
| The photo was taken at the rate of 1 FPL - 1 Frame Per Lifetime - as opposed to the Hollywood standard of 24 FPS - 24 Frames Per Second - or the experimental 48 FPS director Peter Jackson used on some prints of his recently released movie The Hobbit. At 1 FPL, the phenomenon known as Persistence of Vision does not kick in, so if you look at my picture very closely, you’ll see it doesn’t seem to move at all. | 
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This is what the people who saw the photo early on liked best about it.
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