![]() He’s since released two sequels, along with another children’s book The Whiz Mob and the Grenadine Kid. It would be more than a decade later that the story would become Meloy’s first fantasy novel for kids, Wildwood, with illustrations by Ellis. “We decided we’d make this story about this young girl who is abandoned by her parents basically and has to go out into the world to discover the missing cog in a mechanical boy prince.” “When she first moved to Portland in 2000, we’d just hang out and just make up stuff together,” he said. ![]() Even then, he tried to make time for creating stories with his now-wife, illustrator Carson Ellis, all while they both worked in the service industry and got their respective music and art careers going. ![]() “These stories and narratives seemed to perfectly collide my love of storytelling that I had as a young age with this music that I was discovering.”Īnd so, despite getting his creative writing degree at the University of Montana, he moved to Portland and started a band. “I was enamored with songwriters like Shane McGowan of The Pogues and Robyn Hitchcock who created these worlds inside of their songs,” he recently told me at an event for his new middle-grade novel, The Stars Did Wander Darkling. ![]() But he soon realized his love of music didn’t have to replace his love of storytelling. Then hearing bands like R.E.M., Husker Du, The Replacements, and The Jesus and Mary Chain, took him on another path. ![]() Long before Colin Meloy became the frontman for the long-running Portland rock band The Decemberists, he wanted to be a writer. ![]()
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