Home of Bestselling Author Patrick Wensink

Here’s a brief peek at Nate Wragg’s beautiful illustrations for Go Go Gorillas. (Out August 22, via HarperCollins Children’s Books.)

As the release of GO GO GORILLAS comes closer, I have discovered the theme song for dancing gorillas everywhere.

The 60s soul shouter by the Ideals.

Go Go Gorillas hasn’t even been released yet. (Augst 22, 2017!!!) but we are already hard at work on the follow-up, GORILLAS GO BANANAS (Out in 2018).

Here’s a glimpse of my notes that are helping my editor fine tune this sucker into a literary masterpiece.

You’ll have to wait until August, but that baby is up on Amazon. Go check it out!

Check out the cover for my first children’s book: Go Go Gorillas.

In stores Summer 2017 from HarperCollins.

Just did the math and I drove a lot in 2015.

Thanks to everyone who helped plan this trip and everyone who came out to the readings.

 

Alongside Padgett Powell, Joy Williams, Etgar Keret, Carrie Brownstein, Daniel Handler, and Kelly Link NPR named Fake Fruit Factory one of 2015’s best books. 

I am sure those guys are insanely proud to be in my company.

They had this to say about the book: “If it all sounds like Twin Peaks meets Scooby-Doo, well, it is — but in the best possible way.”

NPR gave Fake Fruit Factory a stellar review, calling it:

“It all sounds like Twin Peaks meets Scooby-Doo, and it is — but in the best possible way.”

Read full review HERE.

Poets & Writers magazine asked me what I must have in order to be creative:

“A mess. I need an absolute, total, tsunami-like mess on my desk to be productive. I cannot be creative when things are neat and tidy. Oddly enough, my work does not fit any sort of neat and tidy structure.”