Looking Ahead

Trisha & Door has already become more than I expected when we started. We’re published authors. The books are real, people are reading them, and now the challenge is finding families who don’t already know us and giving them a reason to care.

I’d love to see Trisha & Door eventually grow beyond the page. There’s a rhythm to these stories—the voices, the reactions, the pauses, the ridiculous escalation—that’s hard to capture in a book. We’re experimenting with short videos now, but the bigger dream is to someday see Trisha & Door properly animated, where kids can experience these adventures the way they play out in my head.

From there, who knows? Maybe it’s a series. Maybe it’s a game a kid is playing on an iPad while waiting at the doctor. Maybe someday I overhear a family I’ve never met talking about Trisha & Door at the table next to me. That would be pretty incredible.

Whatever it becomes, there’s one thing I don’t want to lose. Twenty years from now, I still want to walk out of my daughter’s room after we’ve made up a story, look at my wife and say, “That was a good one. We laughed hard.”

If we can keep that part, I think we’ll be doing all right.