Hello everyone! We interrupt this Baby Broadcast to bring you some exciting book-related news. We’d like you to sit down. Because this news is big. It’s hoppin’ big. Barn-hoppin’ big.
Matthew, of course, can do hoppin’ with the best of them (here, here, and here). I, on the other hand, am known for my lead-filled feet.
As exciting as this news is, it wasn’t quite enough to propel me over the barn. But it gave me the oomph to give it a few good tries.
I’d like to set forth that it was not my jumping skills that soured the excitement, but rather the excitement that soured my jumping skills. The general hilarity made it really hard for me to focus.
Anyway. Enough with the big build-up. Here’s the news:
We just signed a contract with a major publishing company who wants to publish Ten Thousand Stories!!! A real publisher! Who’s going to make our sad, hand-built, Pinocchio of a book into a real live book! (You can read the online version of it here or buy the gimpy, built-in-a-barn version here).
Not only that, the major publishing company happens to be Chronicle Books – a publisher committed to making beautiful, interesting, fun and unusual books. I have loved Chronicle ever since I first became aware of them, when I got Griffin and Sabine one Christmas when I was in high school. For any of you who don’t know about Griffin and Sabine, it is a beautiful piece of art – filled with reproduction letters in actual envelopes that you actually open and are covered with beautiful drawings and sketches and paintings and collage. The fact that the same people who took the time and effort to produce this book also want to produce ours is a compliment of the highest order. We are over the moon/barn (or, only halfway over it, as the case may be…).
We’ll keep you posted as we get farther along in the process. For now all we really know is that the publishing date is set at Fall 2013. It seems a long way away, but we’re willing to wait. I mean, it’s not like we have anything else to do.
In the meantime, we’ll just sit back and imagine the Chronicle logo on the spine of one of our very own books.
Though Matthew is good at pointing his finger, I can give him a run for his money on this front.
Though the news from Chronicle might have thrown a wrench in my jumping style, it isn’t keeping me from feeling like I’m floating a few feet off of the ground.
Awesome. Congratulations guys!
OMG!! Congratulations. This is so wonderful. I, too, have my treasured copies of the G & S series next to my bed where they’ve been since Sky was a little guy. You guys will be a perfect fit. Wow.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is very exciting!!!!!!!!!
OMG!! Wow! Congraulations!!!!!
Erps, of course I meant, CongraTulations!
BTW, what does Iggy think?
Hooray! Big congratulations on this huge excitement!
Congratulations!!!!!
Wow! I’m so excited for you! Grow empire, grow!
Thank you, everyone. We are over the moon. We, I am, anyway. Robbi is only about halfway over.
congratulations!….amazing news!
Showing up late for the party, but wow,oh wow, truly fantastic news! Huge congrats!
Um..does that make our Barn versions even more valuable? ;-)
Hooray! Congratulations!!
Clare: I like how you think. We’ll do our best to make your handmade copy worth a mint by the time you’re ready to retire. You’re not planning on retiring for a long, long time, right?
YAYYYYAYAYAYYAYAYYAYAY!!!!!
Funny, I just recently found my Griffin & Sabine Trilogy and read through it all again. Good stuff! Chronicle rocks. So proud of you guys!!
Mazel tov!
I miss reading the blog for a few days, and look at all the jumping! Congrats :)
I hate you guys so much. I am in the midst of a jealous rage right now. I mean it. A rage. Why do you get to have all of the success? Because you “set goals” and “work hard to achieve your goals”? What about all of the time I spend playing The Sims Social on Facebook? I spend hours upon hours keeping my Sim alive and happy. Doesn’t that deserve some kind of reward and acclaim? Apparently not. Apparently my “reward” is a sink full of yesterday’s dishes and formerly folded “clean” laundry sprawled all over the living room floor. And you guys get a Chronicle Book deal. That is buttshit.
(P.S. OMG! OMG!)
Marigold – Sorry to burst your bubble, but I didn’t have to spend hours and hours playing The Sims Social to get the dishes and laundry reward. It looks like they’re handing those out to just anyone now. In fact, I might be setting a record.
Are you kidding me? I cannot BELIEVE this! All that work!
Marigold: I like you when you rant.