BLOG TOUR & GIVEAWAY ~ POIKO by Brian Middleton

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the POIKO by Brian Middleton Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

About The Book:

Title: POIKO: Quests Stuff

Author: Brian Middleton, Rebecca Taylor (Editor)

Pub. Date: April 12, 2022

Publisher: Wonderbound

Formats: Paperback, eBook

Pages: 128

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org

A new adorable anthropomorphic adventurer awaits, and his name is Poiko! Perfect for fans of Mouse Guard, Little Robot, and Hilda!

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN “AVERAGE” DAY FOR POIKO!

Have you ever had to deliver a care package to a dragon with allergies? Have you ever been waylaid by a school of space fish? That’s just an average day for Poiko, the kingdom’s most reliable courier. The world can be a big, scary place, but it can also be wondrous. Sad things can happen, but there are always good friends to turn to, or new friends to make. And no matter what, there is always, always someone who could use your help. Poiko learns all these lessons and more every time he brushes his tail, pulls on his hoodie, and steps out into a new adventure. The philosophical whimsicality of Calvin & Hobbes meets the fantasy-scapes of Adventure Time in this modern-day classic.

“In this sincere and exuberant fantasy adventure … Fanciful, visually engrossing backdrops and the sprawling cast of characters bring to mind classic Sunday comic aesthetics.”  — Publishers Weekly

#1 Weekly pick from Good Comics for Kids!

Reviews:

“In this sincere and exuberant fantasy adventure … Fanciful, visually engrossing backdrops and the sprawling cast of characters bring to mind classic Sunday comic aesthetics.”― PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“Poiko: Quests and Stuff will delight young readers and drop them into a world that’s magical and interesting while reflecting something incredibly human in the way the characters interact with their community.” — Eliza Viera ― Gate Crashers

Download DIGITAL ITEMS (Bookmarks, Digital Wallpapers, and Poster), HERE!

https://www.readwonderbound.com/books/poiko-quests-and-stuff/

EXCERPT

Describe your ideal writing space.

I’m not sure that I have an “ideal” writing space. I think it’s wherever I am at the moment when an idea hits me and I fall in love with it. The stories that I’m most proud of spring from those random thoughts that come in like a bolt of lightning. Sometimes that happens when I’m sitting at my desk, but most of the time it’s when I show up ten minutes early to pick up my daughter from concert band practice, or when I’m in the cereal aisle at the supermarket. And so, I’ve given myself permission to stop and write, wherever that may be. Thank goodness for mobile phones, right?

As far as my ideal “creating space” (since comics is words + art), I tend to work best when I’m surrounded by a little bit of clutter. I couldn’t tell you why that is, but I don’t think I’m the only one. If I had to guess though, it has something to do with a storyteller’s workspace being a reflection of their mind. I don’t know many storytellers who are ever only working on just one thing at a time. And even if we are locked into one idea and one idea only, there are always a dozen more in our headspace doing their level best to get some attention. Our minds are filled with spies and knights and spaceships and dinosaurs and action hero princesses all running around having adventures, loving and living and dying in their own separate worlds. It’s exciting and it’s wonderful, and I wouldn’t trade it for anything. But it does make for some clutter in the old brain pan, sometimes. And if that’s an accurate description of a creator’s headspace, is it any wonder that our workspaces tend to reflect, from time to time?

About Brian Middleton:

Brian Middleton has been telling stories in one form or another for his whole life. His first comic book (published by his brother’s 4th grade teacher and the school’s copy machine) sold out at the distributor level. After that there was no looking back! He continued drawing as the years went on and wrote several short stories. Eventually he married the woman of his dreams and together they started a family. At this point his mind began to drift back to his first creative passion: comic books! After dipping his toe in the water with a handful of self-published and work-for-hire comics he decided to take the deep dive and create his first series, Wulfborne. The three issue mini-series, published by Scout Comics, released in February 2019 to rave reviews. The comics review site, Reading With A Flight Ring, called the book “an understated masterpiece of fiction” and called Brian “a madman, a fool and a genius”, which, as far as anyone knows, is all true. With the creation of Wulfborne complete Brian has turned his creative attention toward his next project, Poiko: Quests and Stuff. The rest of his attention is focused squarely on his one wonderful wife, two beautiful daughters and six (feel free, dear reader, to fill in here the adjective of your choice) cats.

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Giveaway Details:

2 winners will receive a finished copy of POIKO, US Only.

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