Wishing one and all the best of holidays and an oh so special 2012!
Some of you know that over the years I’ve often sent holiday cards with various stickers or other items collaged on them. This year greetings once again go out via this blog which I’m sure does not make the ailing postal service happy.
This year’s card is the cover of Tom Hachtman’s and my book with a couple of holly stickers afixed to add a festive touch.
The book sales are going well, but there are still plenty of copies if you haven’t gotten one yet. Books have found their way to Australia, Norway, Austria and Canada in addition to many corners of the U.S.
Also, in the new year watch for book events around the globe – the Artful Adventure Tour is just beginning!
Wishing you the happiest of holidays !
The book has arrived!
The book has arrived!
The book has arrived!
It has arrived. The book.
The book that is not a chair.
A chair that is not the book.
But the book sitting there.
Chair.
So there.
- Ooops! There is a book chair there!
With my attempt at Steinese, I am so happy to announce that the first shipment of GERTRUDE and ALICE and FRITZ and TOM has reached the U.S. shores from the printer in Singapore. (Actually they arrived by air freight, flying above the shores, with the larger shipment coming by sea and literally reaching our shores in Los Angeles in a few weeks on a ship named England.}
The book is beautifully printed and bound.
Gertrude and Alice and Fritz and Tom by Hans Gallas Illustrations by Tom Hachtman
My previous post told the tale of how the book got to be and now will come the book’s marketing adventures!
If you have any favorite bookstores that should be stocking the book, let me know. I’m also planning events highlighting the book around the country and abroad in the next six months. I’ll keep you posted on those here and on Facebook.
All ideas of people I should contact and places I should go are welcome.
You can order your copy (or copies) by clicking on the book‘s cover in the right column or going to gertrudeandalice.com/fritzandtom and the book will be on its way. Books are $19.99 for the 72 page hard cover edition with a dust jacket and can be paid for through PayPal.
Once the final shipment arrives, I’ll also be setting up purchasing through amazon.com.
One box of books has actually made a return trip across the Pacific to my friend Jane Turner’s book shop, the Gertrude and Alice Café Bookstore in Bondi Beach, Australia.
Gertrude and Alice Cafe Bookstore well-stocked
How fitting that the first bookstore in the world to stock the book is named after Our Ladies of Rue de Fleurus.
Gertrude and Alice and Fritz and Tom would certainly chime in to agree.
