Selection of photographs by Scott Irvine, who did the photographs featured in Lemony Snicket’s The Beatrice Letters.
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Selection of photographs by Scott Irvine, who did the photographs featured in Lemony Snicket’s The Beatrice Letters.
Concept art drawings by Brett Helquist for the cover of The Bad Beginning, including two alternative concepts.
"Everything just starts out as barely anything. It's just a scratch of an idea and it doesn't take a lot of effort… But you slow down, make it a little better and just try something a little bit different… and then clean it up and make it even better." -- Brett Helquist
Shown at Mr. Helquist's keynote address on Illustration at LTUE 2019. Thank you to Liam R. Findlay for bringing this to our attention.
Early character designs of Klaus Baudelaire and Count Olaf by Brett Helquist, ca. 1999.
Shown at Mr. Helquist's keynote address on Illustration at LTUE 2019. Thank you to Liam R. Findlay for bringing this to our attention.
A brand-new THE BAD BEGINNING: Deluxe Edition has hit the shelves this week! It features bonus content from Mr. Snicket himself and new illustrations from Mr. Helquist -- some of which can be seen above -- as well as leather lamination, full-color edges and endpapers. Available wherever books are sold.
Thanks to J. S. for providing the photos. There are a total of fourteen pages to this new character guide (the pages above can also be seen in a promotional sneak peek video here).
Louis Armstrong - On A Coconut Island
"There the waves would make a pair of willing slaves of you and me forever And we'd laze for days and days and never gaze out where the ships go sailing by On a coconut island I'd like to be a castaway with you"
Andy Bush and Dave Lawrence are joined each week by a special guest who brings with them three terrors from their childhoods that 'scarred'
07 July 2025 -- Daniel Handler joins the Scarred For Life podcast to relate three terrors from his childhood that "scarred" him for life, and what they say about him today.
Do you listen to music while you write? If so, what music? Is your choice of music inspired by the project you’re working on?
Daniel Handler: I listen to music whenever I can, and my books usually end up circling a specific album or two. Poison for Breakfast seemed to enjoy listening to An Empty Bliss Beyond This World, by the Caretaker (...)
From a Sept 13, 2021 interview with Sit Down & Write
Life magazine, May 3, 1923
The strings are off!
A hitherto here unposted interview from March last year featuring some Snicketisms in regards to the strange Italian fable:
“The adventures of Pinocchio are a torrent of misery and abuse, punctuated insensibly by moments of recklessness and bad choices with the very occasional moment of joy,” writes Snicket from an undisclosed location. “Life is like this.”
He follows up this very fraught denouncement with: “It surprised me that Pinocchio is even more troublesome, and thus even more hypnotic, than I had remembered.”
When I ask if the eponymous puppet shares anything in common with the three Baudelaire orphans — Violet, Klaus, and Sunny — Snicket goes full Count Olaf, showing no mercy. “All four of these individuals are flammable,” he says.
Brett Helquist’s artwork for the cover of The Hostile Hospital. This is newly available as a quality print from Mr. Helquist’s online shop - all prints 25% off now through the holidays. “The large size (ca. 11 x 17 in.) is very close to the size of my original art.”
Unused Brett Helquist artwork of the Baudelaire orphans. You can see an early sketch and draft of this drawing here.
I was cleaning out a flat file and these Unfortunate Events drawings. I don't remember how they were used but thought they were fun.
- Brett Helquist, Nov 6, 2024
Brett Helquist’s artwork for the cover of The Vile Village. This is newly available as a quality print from Mr. Helquist’s online shop. “The large size (ca. 11 x 17 in.) is very close to the size of my original art.”
On his official instagram, Brett said: "This one is actually my personal favorite of the 13 covers." He further said, he loves the composition, "I was really happy with the color on this one," and that Sunny is his favorite character.
Brett Helquist’s artwork for the cover of The Ersatz Elevator. This is newly available as a quality print from Mr. Helquist’s online shop. “The large size is very close to the size of my original art.”
The US children’s author and novelist on a sublime musical trio, how spices reinvigorated his cooking, an addictive ‘mid-19th century’ BBC p
11 May 2024
Daniel recommends a Book, a Live music act, Food, a TV Show, a Song, & a Card game.
Brett Helquist’s artwork for the cover of The Austere Academy. This is newly available as a quality print at 25% off sale from Mr. Helquist’s online shop (sale ends June 30). “The large size is very close to the size of my original art.”
Professional Book Nerds Podcast Interview with Daniel Handler aka Lemony Snicket on new book (2024)
In this episode, Joe Skelley sits down for a live conversation with Daniel Handler AKA Lemony Snicket, for the release of his memoir And Then? And Then? What Else?, hosted at Cuyahoga County Public Library! Joe and Daniel talk about Tim Curry, sharing your personal life publicly, and what it's like being Lemony Snicket. The live event was hosted and recorded on Thursday, May 23, 2024 at the Parma-Snow Library Branch to a sold-out auditorium.