
Michael Northrop
@mdnorthrop
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NY Times–bestselling author of children’s books @Scholastic & graphic novels @DCOfficial. Now on sub w/ my 1st mystery series for adults! Rep’d by Sara Crowe⚡️
Inwood, Manhattan
Joined November 2009
Stop the presses! Young Alfred: Pain in the Butler is on the cover of @PublishersWkly! We kind of *are* the cover this week 😎 Congrats to @slotfi & @kendallgoode—you guys really served that one up on a silver platter 🍽️ Out 8/1 from @DCOfficial!
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I get why people eventually get into bird watching. A beautiful little humming bird would never run up the middle 3 straight times and then punt
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Everyone in New York today is like no kings, no kings & then I walk by in my *new cardigan* & they’re like welllll
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Dreamt I was an up-and-coming painter but my “exciting new painting” got ruined when gallery-goers stacked stuff on top of it(!) at a party for a more famous painter & let me tell you: that is the kind of “painting” dream you have as a writer 😂 😱 #WritingCommunity
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Sometimes I sketch out comic book panels before scripting & you know, we end up hiring professional artists for the pages but I don’t know why 😂 #comics #WritingCommunity #gotthechops
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Sometimes cats in windows look like fuzzy little ghosts 👻🐈
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I say we replace Columbus Day with Columbo Day where we all wear trenchcoats, smoke cigars, and pretend to be confused. Who the hell’s with me?
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Riverside Drive at 6:58 and 7:27 am. Life moves pretty fast
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Just had one of those dreams where you’re like… man, there was a lot going on there
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At one point in Frankenstein you're reading the story of a Turkish girl, told to a Frenchman, overheard by the monster, who's narrating it afterwards to Victor, who's recounting it to an English sea captain, who's writing it down in a letter to his sister
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I believe the Norman Rockwell Museum is a pleasant way to spend a drizzly afternoon in western Massachusetts
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Been kind of piecing it together on the next Figman Files mystery. 700 words here, 900 there, but I cranked out 1,700 words today to squeak past 10K. Writing like a turtle who found a Red Bull 😂 I’ll take it! #writingcommunity
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Living uptown is like: Do I eat these donuts in the little junkie park by the tracks, or do I walk all the way to the benches on Broadway? Living uptown 👴🏻at my age👴🏻 is walking all the way to Broadway
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Fifty degrees, falling leaves, and a cup of bodega coffee by the park. I wait all year for these mornings 😊
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