Protect your diary from snooping siblings. Share your secrets with a BFF. Guard your texts from unwanted eyes. Create the lingua franca for your own fantastical secret world!

Expert language creator David J. Peterson (inventor of languages for Game of Thrones, the Marvel Universe, and more) guides you as you create your own secret languages, codes, ciphers, and hidden messages.

From simple cyphers to entirely new alphabets, CREATE YOUR OWN SECRET LANGUAGE will help you master the skills of secret communication, whether it's written, drawn, or spoken. By the time your finished reading, you'll be able to share messages memora vosak laz vos otihoe vosecchi! ("that no one will be able to understand!")

Illustrations by Ryan Goldsberry