Beyoncé
Happy New Year from Li’l Nosferatu!
Happy New Year, everyone! Welcome to 2026! And welcome to my “year-end wrap-up” blog post for 2025. Look, before you say anything: yes, I’m writing a “year-end” post the day after the year ended. Which is probably against the rules, but as I’ve learned over the years, I don’t like rules. Rules are stupid. Also, I was busy yesterday.
So. Here are some of the best things that happened to me in 2025:
I wrote many, many books. Most of them were for kids. Some of them were for adults. Here are the titles of some (but not all) of those books:
The Encyclopedia of Curious Rituals and Superstitions.
The Fantastic Four Little Golden Book.
Stitch: Out-of-This-World Numbers.
Also, in January of 2025, I began working as a writer and narrative designer for an upcoming video game called Shadows of Dawn, which is being developed by Next Player Games. Currently, I’m still working on the game with the good folks at NPG.
And as you may recall, back in 2023, I wrote two episodes of the animated preschool series Hey! Fuzzy Yellow. In 2024, one of the episodes began airing and streaming. But starting in 2025, both episodes (“Boomerang Jelly Car” and “Sculpture Jam Abstract”) began airing and streaming. I wrote the scripts and the song lyrics for both episodes. As of this writing, Hey! Fuzzy Yellow still hasn’t begun airing or streaming in the US, but it’s available in various countries in Europe, Central America, and South America.
I also wrote the script for a Passover-themed children’s audio drama, titled “Mort the Misinformed Morsel of Matzah,” which was released in the spring of 2025 as part of Yoto’s 5-Minute Spring Holiday Stories collection. The title character, Mort, was even voiced by a friend of mine, Eli Schiff!
And there are several other projects I worked on throughout 2025, some of which will come out this year. I announced one of them, 96 Facts About Chappell Roan, in my previous blog post. (That book comes out on January 13th.) But I’ll announce some of my other upcoming projects ASAP. Please keep checking this site for more info!
BTW, I wouldn’t have worked on any of the aforementioned projects without the book editors, video game producers, and TV showrunners who gave me these writing gigs in the first place. I’m incredibly grateful to everyone who hired me in 2025 (or really, anyone who hired me at any time, ever). And I mean that.
You may also be wondering about the “Baby New Year” photo which adorns this blog post. See, to usher in the new year, I’ve put a “2026” sash around a puppet I built. I call him “Li’l Nosferatu.” If you’re obsessed with me (and why wouldn’t you be?), you’ll notice that I’ve occasionally posted pics of Li’l Nosferatu on social media during the past couple of years. For today’s purposes, Li’l Nosferatu is playing the part of Baby New Year.
Someday, I’ll explain the backstory behind this puppet, because there is indeed quite a bit of backstory there. Basically, I built the puppet for a project which never came to fruition. But more on that some other time.
And to anyone who’s reading this, I just wanted to wish you the best for a wonderful new year!
The Beyoncé “96 Facts” Book Is Out NOW!
Hey, guess what? The tenth book in the “96 Facts” series – 96 Facts About Beyoncé – came out TODAY. And as with all of the previous “96 Facts” books, 96 Facts About Beyoncé was written by me and illustrated by the amazing Risa Rodil.
Here’s the official publisher description of 96 Facts About Beyoncé:
The ultimate fact book and journal for fans of Beyoncé. Packed with fun facts, quick quizzes, and bonus pages for journaling, this is a must-have for any members of the BeyHive.
96 Facts About Beyoncé is available in bookstores everywhere. But you can also buy it HERE, HERE, and HERE.
(If you click on the Amazon link, you can even see a few brief excerpts from the book!)
To find out more about 96 Facts About Beyoncé, check out this blog post.
To find out about the ninth book in the series – 96 Facts About the G.O.A.T. Athletes – check out this blog post.
And I talk about the entire “96 Facts” series in this “Book Q&A” interview with fellow author Deborah Kalb.
If you’d like see ALL of the books I’ve written for Penguin Random House – even the ones that have nothing to do with pop music or organized professional team sports – click HERE.
And when you get a chance, you should also check out the “96 Facts About…” page of my website.
“96 Facts About Beyoncé” Comes Out in June!
Very early in my career, I was a writer for Teen Beat. (Not a joke! If you don’t believe me, Google it.) One of the Teen Beat articles I wrote was a cover story on Destiny’s Child. That’s how long ago I did that: Destiny’s Child was still a pop group. Of course, the most famous member of that group was Beyoncé. Why am I bringing that up? Okay, you know the “96 Facts” series? Those middle-grade nonfiction books I write that always seem to come out on a Tuesday? Well…
The next “96 Facts” book will come out from Penguin Random House on Tuesday June 10th, 2025. That book is called 96 Facts About Beyoncé. Like all of the previous “96 Facts” books, this one was written by yours truly and illustrated by the amazing Risa Rodil.
Here’s the official publisher description of 96 Facts About Beyoncé:
The ultimate fact book and journal for fans of Beyoncé. Packed with fun facts, quick quizzes, and bonus pages for journaling, this is a must-have for any members of the BeyHive.
The book is available for preorder HERE, HERE, and HERE.
And to see all of the other books I’ve written for Penguin Random House, click HERE.