Working on the cover for I'M BORED
My art director (Laurent Linn at Simon & Schuster) called yesterday to say he had a cover mockup, saying that he had just emailed it to me, was interested in hearing what I thought. I opened the email attachment while he was still on the phone. Then I started yelling (yes, yelling), I was so excited.
At the beginning of this whole process, I briefly entertained the idea of trying to play it cool, maintaining a composed and professional demeanor. Well, I gave THAT up pretty early on...it's just not me. Plus, who knows when I'll get my next book? Hopefully soon, of course, but you never know. So I may as well embrace every moment.
Fortunately Laurent has been more amused than horrified. Plus he's pretty excited about the project as well, though he doesn't yell like I do.
Anyway, I CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS BOOK TO BE ON THE SHELVES! Publication date is still scheduled for late 2012.
I'M BORED
Author: Michael Ian Black, Illustrator: Debbie Ridpath Ohi
Publication slated for Fall 2012
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 8:33 AM
Reader Comments (1)
Debbie,
I am SO excited for you. I've been lurking on your site for ages now (truly, ages ... and all the areas, too) and reading about this entire journey that you're on. Now that there's a cover mock-up, it seems so close to becoming "real'. Yay!
Can't wait to see the papery form of the book. :)