The folks at Chronicle had told us that our book might pop up on Amazon sometime in early May. Today I was Googling about to see if that day had arrived and found this instead, the Ten Thousand Stories page on the Chronicle site.

It is a humbling thing indeed to find my name on the site of my dream publisher, a moment made even stranger and more sublime by seeing Robbi’s name there beside mine. This dream come true is coming true. One step at a time.

As you’ll see when you click on the link (we flatter ourselves to think that you might click), the book is now available for preorder.

And let’s have a closer look at that cover, shall we?

It’s a little more magnificent than the one Robbi and I cobbled together for our Idiots’Books version.

Amazing what a difference an actual designer (and a Chronicle designer, to boot) can make.

Apparently things are going to start happening more quickly now. We’ll get our copies of Chronicle’s catalog in the next week or so. And our advance copies of the real live printed book are due to arrive any day now.

I wonder if that’s the moment when this whole crazy dream will somehow seem real.

Or maybe it never will. Robbi and I, illustrator and author of a Chronicle Book? What?

I’d sooner believe it if you told me we’d walk on the moon.