Be A Turtle: And Other Secrets to a Happy Life

by Peter Chiykowski

BE A TURTLE and Other Secrets to a Happy Life is a book about going your own pace and marching to the beat of your own drum when the rest of the world is on a big dumb parade to nowhere. It's full of cynical and sometimes sweet comics mixed in with badass life advice from turtles. Because turtles don't worry about being judged or paying rent or getting promotions. They just do their thing.

The book will feature a foreword by Nick Seluk, creator of The Awkward Yeti and Heart and Brain, and covers topics like:

How will you survive the robot uprising(s)?
How can blood magic help you make friends?
Can the power of education let you shoot lasers?

Hardcover

First published January 1, 2018

About the author

Peter Chiykowski is an award-winning writer, editor and cartoonist. His webcomic series Rock, Paper, Cynic won him the Aurora Award for Best Graphic Novel in 2014 and 2018. His first collection of comics, The HMS Bad Idea, debuted as a #1 new graphic novel anthology on the Amazon international bestseller list and is now available wherever silly books are sold.

His work as a humorist and author of short fiction and poetry has appeared or made mention in Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek, MTV.com, Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, The Globe and Mail, The New Quarterly, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Best Canadian Poetry and Best Canadian Speculative Writing, and he has spoken about writing and publishing at conventions, conferences and classrooms coast to coast.

He is the creator of The Shortest Story microfiction project and The Story Engine Deck of story prompts.

His new book of microfiction The House of Untold Stories is now available from Andrews-McMeel Publishing.

Reviews

[Tina · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wonderful collection of comics with a scattering of turtle wisdom.

“Turtle secret #1: don’t read the comments. Turtles never read the comments.”