Kids Comics Pitchfest 2025 Showcase

What's Your Story?

Choose Your Own Adventure meets Jumanji in What’s Your Story? Pete's attempts to spend his time with his brother Jude are thwarted by Jude's constant reading habit. Pete decides the best cure is to gift Jude an awful book he won’t want to finish: The Disappearance of Doctor Dirigible. Pete reads it first, but ends up with more than he bargained for when the choices he makes while reading the eighties-era sci-fi adventure infringe on reality. It’s all fun and games until you come face to face with a fire breathing hedgehog. When a girl named Mal appears, Pete questions if their friendship is real or simply part of the plot. Should he finish the book, or face the consequences of leaving a story brought to life unfinished?

My Why:

My favorite book is The Neverending Story by Michael Ende. After reading it as a kid, a part of me believed that if I got suitably lost in my local labyrinthine used bookstore and picked up a dusty book I’d never heard of, maybe it would be the book, the one that would allow me to be transported someplace fantastic. Part of me still does. It’s that feeling of magic around the corner that I wanted to create for readers with What’s Your Story?