Hey, everyone, stop by the Otis Dooda web site to see a trailer, make stuff (ninja masks, yeah!), listen to an awesome soundtrack, and more!
Illustrator and musician David Heatley has written and recorded an entire album of orginal songs to go along with Otis Dooda: Strange But True! Visit the bandcamp page where you can stream tracks from the album before purchasing in any digital format you like.
Check out this awesome Otis Dooda book trailer created and produced by the absolutely amazing internationally recognized cartoonist and rockstar David Heatley! David drew all the pictures for Otis Dooda and wrote and performed the music. When he’s not writing songs or playing with Legos or daydreaming, he creates art for magazines, books, and Web sites all over the world, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Nickelodeon magazine. He's pretty much: awesome!
Meet Otis Dooda. Yes, that's his name. Go on and have a good laugh. He's heard it all before. He's been called things like Otis Poopy Stink and Otis Toilet Twinkie. That's right, yuck it up and get it out of your system. We'll wait.
All right then. This is the story of Otis and the Dooda family (including their rat named Smoochie) moving to New York City, and the incredibly strange, but true, things that happened to them. It all started with Otis getting cursed by a guy in a potted plant in their apartment building lobby, and then meeting a bunch of their neighbors, including a farting pony named Peaches who was disguised as a dog. And that was just the first day!
Check out this wonderful piece featuring Ellen and The Humming Room in The Baltimore Sun! Special thanks to journalist, Jonathan Pitts.
The Wall Street Journal reviewed The Humming Room!
"...Ms. Potter revives the story with such grace and sensitivity that readers ages 11-14 will be glad she did."
I chatted about the backstory for The Humming Room and what I'm working on now in Publishers Weekly
