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"It’s not every day you find a project you want to devote years of your life to; you’re lucky if you experience that once in your life. And when you do, whatever the content might be, for you, personally, it’s a love story.”

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Beddor told how he got the idea behind writing the Hatter Madigan graphic novels. A boy at one of his events asked him what happened to Hatter Madigan in the thirteen years he was in our world looking for Alyss. It was such a simple question, yet it led to the creation of multiple graphic novels telling that story.

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The Looking Glass Wars has 56 chapters in it.

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dodge anders

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At first, Beddor hired a concept artist for LGW. He was Doug Chang, who'd done the concept art for the second three Star Wars movies

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he found his inspiration for the looking glass wars in a muesum in england from a picture of dark and scary playing cards

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He was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for best Motion Picture

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LGW has 71,773 words in total

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His life has taken many different turns and twists ever since he left Minnesota, the place he grew up in. His role as a fantasy writer has turned out to be his calling.

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One of Beddor's favorite authors is J.R.R. Tolkien

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Well I do three things to settle down and write. I walk. I read poetry (the more incomprehensible the better—Wallace Stevens does wonders for my mental constipation). And I ask myself questions before I go to bed, I mean questions about the work at hand. So often I find when I wake up my subconscious has been busy all night working out useful answers, like the Elves who made shoes for the Shoemaker. -Frank Beddor Q and A

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Frank Beddor is selling the 'There's Something About Mary' house for $6.5 million dollars.

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In the Looking Glass Wars card game, you must surround your enemies to defeat them before they surround you. The game is a lot more complex than chess, and plays just like a ancient eastern (and when i mean eastern, i mean chinese eastern, not east coast) game named Go!

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The Cat

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Frank Beddor first thought of the Looking Glass Wars as a movie.

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Beddor grew up in Minnesota, a lake kid who still comes back to his childhood home in Chanhassen.

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frank beddor illustrates his own books

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hes married to marilyn Branchaud

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his oldest son is 11

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In cardsoldierwars.com, you become a general in Wonderland, competing with other for power and to get your queen on the throne.

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Beddor offers some intriguing reimaginings...His attention, happily, put Wonderland back on the map again.

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Beddor had taken a UCLA literature class on Shakespeare’s plays.

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Frank Beddor tries not to strangle the idea's he has in his head for a story to death by over-thinking things. He tries to allow his idea to breathe and develop in its own creative pattern as long as possible.

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Got his inspiration from a card display in London. Went to visit this card guy and he showed him another part of the deck. The card's showed a darker side of Alice. Beddor investigated and found out that Lewis Carroll supposedly twisted the story. He also states that this is why Carroll and Liddell grew apart in real life.

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Frank Beddor was 23 he retired from skiing and became involved in the entertainment industry

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he knew how to bare-foot ski at 12 years old

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Alyss of Wonderland's rules has only just begun and already those who prefer chaos to peace are threatening to destroy everything worth imagining. Trailed by newly appointed Royal Bodyguard Homburg Molly, Alyss is doing her best to keep pace with the non-stop demands of being Queen while attempting to evade Molly for a few private moments with Dodge. Alyss's life is already a challenging mix of duty, love and imagining when a series of phantom sightings set fire to an urban myth of her imperial viciousness's return and have everyone...Seeing Redd.

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Wrote 14 books

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Beddor's first book was The Looking Glass Wars

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Frank Beddor says he doesn't come up with any great ideas, he just listens to the subtle, creative energies that surround us.

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Frank’s father was part serial entrepreneur, part impresario. One of his pursuits – a traveling water-ski show (featuring ice-follies girls, a one-legged boy and a death-defying jump through fire) – suggests what Frank calls his “charismatic and adventurous” nature.

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Beddor's acting coach helped him discover his love for writing.

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Out of his success with There's Something About Mary, he formed Automatic Pictures and Automatic Games in order to develop creative properties for a multitude of platforms.

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He retired from Skiing at 23

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Frank's favorite creature that exists only in literature is the Jabberwocky. He says that they have a fascinating history as warrior animals-working for Redd's army as "Flesh Tanks."

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frank beddor is worth 65 million dollars

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He studied with acting coach Stella Adler.

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he was a stuntman

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The Looking Glass wars inspired a card game, an offline multiplayer role-playing game, multiple song an apparel line, a theatrical musical, and even a teaser trailer.

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He was the producer for There's Something About Mary

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He moved to Los Angeles and acted in several theater productions, for which he earned favorable reviews. He also studied with revered acting coach Stella Adler.

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Beddor was a stunt double in the movie "Better Off Dead."

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looking Glass Wars was frank beddors very first book

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His children gave him ideas for his latest book Hatter Madigan

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He wrote The Looking Glass Wars in 5 years.

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In the early stages of The Looking Glass Wars, he had a group of actor friends do a read through in character.

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Beddor got his inspiration to write his book after seeing an incomplete deck of ancient cards at the British Museum.

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He is an Author, World Creator, Film Producer, Creative Executive and Principal of Automatic Pictures

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After the success of "Mary," Beddor labored for two years, essentially in secret to avoid explanations and expectations, and mapped out his next hit, "The Looking Glass Wars" book trilogy. This bestselling series would be rejected by every major publisher in the U.S. until it was released in 2004 by the U.K. publisher Egmont Books, when it became a sensation.

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frank beddor has wrote 14 books in his writing career

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Beddor retired from skiing at 23.

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It took him five years to finish The Looking Glass Wars

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He has written 14 books.

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Frank Beddor was World Champion freestyle skier in 1981 and 1982.

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The Looking Glass Wars was rejected by every author in the U.S

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The third book, ArchEnemy, was released on October 15, 2009.

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The dedicated and curious community surrounding his books inspired him to make the Hatter M series, which detailed Hatter Madigan's 13 year journey to find his lost princess, spanning all continents, including events such as the civil war in the novels' story.

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Frank Beddor writes for all ages but the LGW trilogy is geared more towards Young Adults.

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he won a golden globe award for best motion picture musical or comedy

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The Looking Glass Wars was rejected by every major publisher in the U.S., so it was released by the U.K. publisher Egmont Books.

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The Looking Glass Wars was first released in the United Kingdom in 2004, and was released in the United States on September 26, 2006.

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The senior Beddor is known for having set a world record skiing the length of the Mississippi River dressed as Paul Bunyan (to promote Minneapolis' Paul Bunyan Land) and motorcycling to South America with his 150-lb. Great Dane riding in a specially outfitted box mounted above the rear wheel.

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His favorite animal out of all literature is a Jabberwocky

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Frank Beddor won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture

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The Looking Glass Wars was rejected by every major publisher in the U.S.

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Beddor set a world record skiing the length of the Mississippi River dressed as Paul Bunyan.

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Seeing Redd was released in 2007

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Beddor graduated from the university of Utah

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he was also a stunt man in a few movies

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Frank Beddor was rather clever with his novel as, whenever Alice was in Wonderland or still believed in Wonderland, she would be referred to as Alyss.

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Beddor found his way into the heart of Hollywood when he appeared as John Cusack's skiing stunt double in the beloved teen comedy "Better Off Dead" (1985) and opposite Carrie Fisher in the "Kentucky Fried Movie" sequel "Amazon Women on the Moon" (1987), directed by Joe Dante.

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“You can't spend so much time in a place and not carry a bit of it inside you.”
― Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars

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He was born in Minneapolis, MN

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The creative thinker continues to focus on a multitude of projects with his successful Automatic Pictures and Automatic Game companies.

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He was a world cup finalist

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LGW extends to a companion album of original songs; a card game; an online and forthcoming offline multiplayer role-playing video game; an apparel line; a proposed theatrical musical.

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Beddor has been recruited to write the story of the upcoming film based on the classic board game Monopoly – and to apply his holistic methodology to its creative and marketing development.

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As an international sports star, Beddor was afforded endorsement opportunities, which found him appearing in commercials for national brands like Northwest Airlines, Nikon and Juicy Fruit.

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Says that the hardest part of writing is being alone.

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Frank Beddor moved to Los Angeles and took acting classes but then he got upset of the lack of good scripts

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Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

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Frank Beddor appeared in commercials for national brands like Northwest Airlines, Nikon and Juicy Fruit.