Good news for us - and for a lot of enthralled children. "I plan to keep writing Hermux as long as he is willing to keep having adventures," Hoeye says. Next came The Sands of Time, and now Hermux is back, sharing the stage with equally delightful and anagrammatic characters - film director Brinx Lotelle, beauty queen Tucka Mertslin, and mysterious newcomer Corpius Crounce - in No Time Like Show Time. The character to go with it, a charismatic watchmaking mouse, followed two years later, making his debut in the immensely popular Time Stops for No Mouse. How did Hoeye come up with the name "Hermux Tantamoq"? Playing anagrams with his wife, that's how. I was once again startled by the cleverness of Hoeye's writing - the innuendo and multiple meanings." "What a treat to be back in the world of Hermux. But luckily most kids don't seem to mind."Michael Hoeye, quoted in an interview on No Time Like Showtime Hardcover Chapter Book Time to Smell the Roses. "When I first wrote Time Stops I was warned by several editors and librarians that my writing is all wrong for children. Michael Hoeye lives with his wife, Martha, in a stone cottage in Portland. Rowling and Brian Jacques."Philadelphia Inquirer "Hoeye one whose work can be favorably compared with J.
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