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Andrew Durkin
ALLi Author Member
Location: United States of America (the)
Genres: Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Academic, Philosophy, Writing & Publishing, Children's general
Skills: Performance/Spoken Word, Press/Media Interview, Reading/Literary Event, Self-publishing Workshop/Training, Speaking Engagement/Lecture, Writing Workshop
Andrew (he/him) is author of the Sky-Tree Saga fantasy series; its award-winning first novel, Bibi Blundermuss and the Tree Across the Cosmos, was published in 2022. He is also the founder of Yellow Bike Press, an author services company based in Portland, OR.
Before founding Yellow Bike Press, Andrew was an editor at Inkwater Press, where he edited hundreds of books, including No God Like the Mother by Kesha Ajose Fisher, winner of the 2020 Ken Kesey Award for Fiction sponsored by the Oregon Book Awards. Andrew is also the traditionally published author of Decomposition: A Music Manifesto (Pantheon, 2014), one of Los Angeles magazine’s “Best Little Music Books” of 2014.
Andrew has a PhD in English literature from the University of Southern California, where he also taught freshman writing for six years. He was a postdoctoral fellow at USC’s Institute for Multimedia Literacy at the Annenberg Center for Communication, where he worked with digital media pioneer Bob Stein.
Andrew Durkin's books
Bibi Blundermuss and the Tree Across the Cosmos
Twelve-year-old Bibi Blundermuss is terrified of trees. Being around them makes her dizzy and sick to her stomach-even comatose. So, when her only to chance to find her missing parents means climbing a magic tree in the forest near her home, she almost doesn't take it.
When Bibi grits her teeth and scales the trunk, the tree grows-so violently that she and her cat Eek are catapulted into another world. Here, she befriends a herd of elk, on the run from a pack of vicious white lions. And she discovers, to her amazement, that her mother is a witch who has been protecting the elk with a poison flower spell, which keeps the lions away.
Yet the longer Bibi stays in the world of the elk and lions, the less sure she is that her mother is truly on the elks' side-or even on Bibi's side. In the end, a dangerous journey into the lions' lair and a reunion with both parents uncovers a secret that changes Bibi's life forever. Drawn into an epic snowbound battle against an army of zombie trees, she must face her greatest fear to discover her greatest power.