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Advice for Little Monsters & Aspiring Filmmakers

Fri, Sep 02, 2011

Children’s book author, horror writer, and filmmaker Dustin Warburton is coming to the Colgate Bookstore.

Advice for Little Monsters & Aspiring Filmmakers

The Colgate Bookstore will host a discussion with children’s book author, horror writer, and filmmaker Dustin Warburton, to celebrate his new picture book "The Little Monster’s Guide on How to Scare Children". The event will take place on Saturday, Sept. 17 at 1p.m., and will include information on the author’s story credit for the upcoming film “Spiders 3D.” Copies of the books will be available for purchase and signing, but the event is free and open to the public. The picture book is geared towards ages 5+ and the presentation is recommended for ages 10-adult.

The Little Monster's Guide on How to Scare Children is a humorous picture book written by Dustin Warburton and illustrated in graphic-novel style by Dan Monroe. The story provides young monsters with step-by-step instructions on how to improve their kid-frightening attempts, and how to avoid being spooked themselves.

Dustin Warburton is originally from McDonough, New York, and was published for the first time as a senior in high school when he won the 1999 New England Young Writer’s Conference which is held in Middlebury, Vermont. He has worked as an officer in a maximum security prison, and has taught English in Vermont for the last four years in addition to lecturing and speaking in schools all over New England. His horror writing for adults includes Taste, Strange Things, and Morticians Food. His children’s books include My Brother Eats Spiders and The Little Monster’s Guide on How to Scare Children. In 2005 Dustin received his first film credit in the boxing documentary “Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story”. Most recently, he has earned his first Hollywood writing credit for the upcoming film “Spiders 3D”.

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