Clock Without a Face Update

Remember Clock Without a Face? If you don't, click here to see my previous posts about the book. Click here to visit the official website, and read stories about real treasure hunters who studied the book and were rewarded with emeralds. It occurred to me that I never posted my portrait of the world's greatest sleuth, Roy Dodge, so there he is on the left. Click to make bigger.

What I'm really excited about, however, is listening to authors Mac Barnett and Eli Horowitz talk about the book this morning on NPR's Weekend Edition. Listen to the story here. You'll also hear from one eighteen-year-old in southern Wisconsin who describes her successful search for the number eight.

There are still three numbers left in the ground! Including the twelve, which contains as many emeralds as all the other numbers combined! Emeralds! Okay, that's all.

And the Rest...

Like the theme song from the first season of Gilligan's Island, I'm just going to cram all the other players from the book The Clock Without a Face into one final post. Seriously, you need to check out the link there if you haven't already. Find out all about this weird book, and let me know when you've uncovered one of the very real treasures that have been buried in twelve different spots across the United States of America.

Actually, I may be taking it for granted that all the treasures are in the U.S. One of them could be in Guam or Ontario for all I know. But I'm pretty sure they're in the U.S.

Anyway, for your consideration: the paranoiac,

the puzzle ladies,

the superfan,

the doormen,

the hamster-man,

the mime,

and the artist (encased in plaster).

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The clown, who lives one floor below the kids.

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Got a little behind on these. Here are the kids who live one floor below the future-man. Nobody seems to know what happened to their parents, but they don't mind. They think they're doing just fine.

Be sure to check out the website for Clock Without a Face. Join the hunt! Part of the treasure could practically be in your back yard.

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Once again I post a portrait from a forthcoming treasure-hunt book, The Clock Without a Face. Here's the future-man, who lives one floor below the hunter.

Today I have more to report, however, as I've noticed the official website seems to be back up again. Check it out, because there's a wealth of information about this weird little book, and about twelve emerald-studded numbers that have been hidden across this great country. These numbers will be yours for the keeping, if you find them first. Really.

Also, a great long-form review of the book up on the Fuse #8 blog.

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Another portrait from The Clock Without a Face. Here's the hunter, who lives a floor below the hoarder.

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Yet another portrait from that forthcoming book I've been talking about. This is the hoarder, who lives one floor below the alchemist.

Once again, this book is both a mystery and a treasure hunt. Readers will find clues inside that will lead them to twelve different bejeweled numbers hidden across the United States.

More information soon.

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Here's another portrait from that forthcoming book I mentioned Sunday. This is the modern-day alchemist, who lives one floor below the billionaire.

Once again, this book is both a mystery and a treasure hunt. Readers will find clues inside that will lead them to twelve different bejeweled numbers hidden across the United States.

Someone asked on my last post if there was a way to get additional information. There will be soon, but the official website for the book hasn't launched yet. I'll pass along everything relevant when I can.

The Clock Without a Face

Look at this thing. This unlikely-looking thing is a book, a mystery book titled The Clock Without a Face. And within this book lies the clues to uncover twelve bejeweled numbers which have been hidden across the United States of America. I'm not kidding about this.

The Clock Without a Face will be available this May. It features staggering environmental drawings by Scott Teplin, and those drawings are the stars of this book. But I'm happy to say that I provided portraits of its cast of characters, and I'm going to start sharing these today. Below is the billionaire–the emerald-studded numbers were stolen right off the face of his once-valuable clock.