NAMO!

Good news, NAMO fans (and soon-to-be fans)! Andrew's middle son Asher Peterson is a rising music producer and engineer, and back in April he spawned a collective EP under the name NAMO. On that EP, "Rain," Asher produced some incredible layered synth melodies and then slipped them into the hands and ears of a few well-chosen friends, who contributed their lyrics and voices. Some of you have already discovered this EP. This morning they launched a Kickstarter to fund a full-length album. The EP is available via iTunes, Spotify, and the Rabbit Room, and if you're interested in backing the Kickstarter, here it is. :-)https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/719128080/namo-collaborative-pop-album

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This week, Madame Sidler will be reading chapters 46-49 (including the preceding interlude) of The Warden and the Wolf King. Come back on Friday for an excerpt and conversation! Meanwhile, we'll see you in the forum. :-)

SpecFaith short film review

Speculative Faith has been an Igiby ally for quite awhile, with reviews and even awards for the Wingfeather books. We appreciate their support in this review of the short film, also! They posted it back in December, the same day the film was released, but I'm just getting around to sharing it. Here's a snippet:I think this first in the Wingfeather Saga films is very well done as an animated work. The narrator does a particularly good job of capturing the seriousness and the high tension of the later books while also displaying the humor which made the first books so successful. Thanks, Rebecca! Read the full review here.

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This week, Madame Sidler will be reading chapters 38-45 of The Warden and the Wolf King. Come back on Friday for an excerpt! Meanwhile, I hear there's a new writing challenge in the forum, and all manner of interesting conversations to be had.Also this week: HUTCHMOOT! There are still a couple of tickets left to Andrew's Resurrection Letters concert on Thursday. If you're near enough to make it, snap up a ticket here. After that, he'll hit the road again with the Bible Tour. You can find dates for those shows at his music site.

Thinking Pastorally review

Andrew Roycroft at Thinking Pastorally wrote a glowing review of the Wingfeather Saga. Here's an excerpt:

Thematically, the novels manage to carry a strong and insistent message of hope in hopeless times, of the value of selfless sacrifice, of the need for atonement, and of the worth of healthy family relations, without ever feeling laboured or moralistic. The story, in other words, is not merely a vehicle for bigger themes, but is part and parcel of how the message is told. When redemption is on the horizon, even the smallest details of the story are seen to carry weight and truly matter.

Read the rest of the review here. Thanks, Pastor Roycroft!

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This week, Madame Sidler will be reading chapters 32-37 of The Warden and the Wolf King. Come back on Friday for an excerpt, and to share one of your own!Andrew on tour: Is Andrew coming near you on his fall tour? Find dates and ticket info at his music site.

Resurrection Letters live at Hutchmoot

The Rabbit Room's four day feast, Hutchmoot, is coming up in a couple of weeks, and something awesome is happening on the first night—Andrew's Resurrection Letters will be performed live in its entirety with a full band! While the moot itself is sold out, the concert isn't. Click here for tickets, which include special guests The Gray Havens.

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This week, Madame Sidler will be reading chapters 25-31 (including the preceding interlude) of The Warden and the Wolf King. Come back on Friday for an excerpt, and to share one of your own! Meanwhile, you can find us all lurking in the forum, flinging quotes at each other, staging showdowns, writing songs, and in general enjoying one another's friendship. :-)Andrew on tour: The Bible Tour hits the road on Wednesday! To see if they're coming near you, visit BibleTour2018.com.

The Bible Tour

Andrew's about to head out on his first of TWO tours this fall and winter. The Bible Tour, where the Bible itself is the headline act, features Matt Maher, Natalie Grant, Daniel and Harvest Bashta, Steven Malcom—and our own Andrew Peterson. The tour starts next Wednesday, September 19, and runs all over the United States for a full month. To find out if it's coming near you, click the image below or the link here. You can also find his full tour schedule at his music site.

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This week, Madame Sidler will be reading chapters 19-24 of The Warden and the Wolf King. Come back on Friday for an excerpt, and to share one of your own! Meanwhile, we hope to see you discussing fruit fanaticism, writing gravy songs, and enjoying assorted gamery in the forum. :-)

The Local Show returns

If you live close enough to Nashville to take in a concert now and then, you'll want to know about The Local Show—a live songwriter-in-the-round event that happens every other Tuesday each fall and spring. The season is starting up again tomorrow (September 4), and Andrew is hosting an incredible lineup that includes such legends as Buddy Green, Ron Block, and Jeff Taylor. This first show is sold out for in-person attendees, but the good news is that it streams FREE from the Rabbit Room's Facebook page! If you want to hear some good banjo, harmonica, guitar, and friendship, I hope you'll join us online. Go here at 7:30 pm Central for a front-row online seat. :-)For information on upcoming shows (Skye's playing next week!), here's the ticket page at the Rabbit Room.

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This week, Madame Sidler will be reading chapters 14-18 (including the preceding interlude) of The Warden and the Wolf King. Join us on Friday for an excerpt, and to share one of your own! And join us in the forum—we've got some great conversations happening about last week's reading and other topics both fun and serious.

Blindplopping adventure!

Last week a Durgan from the Rabbit Room happened upon an online exploration game where you're set down in a random place and have to find out where you are. Blindplopping, I thought immediately! So, since Janner was blindplopped in last week's reading and he's still working on getting himself back to where he needs to be, I thought it'd be fun to give ourselves the same challenge. :-)The game is called GeoGuessr, and it has maps for different continents or regions, different famous cities or landmarks, movie locations, or—if you want something a bit tougher—the whole world! Can you figure out where you are if all you have is terrain and perhaps buildings and street signs, and maybe those signs aren't in a language or even alphabet you know? I'm not completely familiar with your world yet, so for my first challenge I just went with the United States, but I think Connolin Durga would be proud of me. :-)Try it for yourself and let us know how it works! Select a region and then just click "Play"—no need for an account unless you want extra features.GeoGuessrNote: We work hard to keep WingfeatherSaga.com as safe as we can, but it is always a good idea to check with your parents before exploring new websites.Have fun, and thanks to Hannah for finding this game!

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This week, Madame Sidler will be reading chapters 7-13 of The Warden and the Wolf King. Come back on Friday for an excerpt, and to share one of your own!To chronicle your blindplopping adventure, comment here or in the forum. We've got other fun conversations happening in the forum, too. All they need is your voice. :-)

Welcome to the Warden and the Wolf King

Good Monday, dear readers! This year in the Ban Rona Book Club we've been reading and posting through the whole Wingfeather Saga, starting from a little homey cottage in Glipwood and following the Igibys on their journeys from wonder to danger, from safety to exile, from their little township to the Ice Prairies to the Green Hollows.Last week we finished book three and today we begin book four. If you've been following along, welcome back! And if you haven't, you're still welcome to jump in at any time. The forums are wide open for anyone to play in. :-) And if you feel like binging the series this week to catch up with us, or have read the books before but it's been a year or two, that's okay too.

Fan Art

Would you like to see your art on the official Wingfeather site? We'd love to see what's happening in your imagination as you read these books. Just send your art to Andrew via the Art By You page. :-)

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This week, Madame Sidler will be reading chapters 1-6 of The Warden and the Wolf King. See you on Friday for an excerpt, and all week in the forums!