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