This year is the 5th anniversary of my book GERTRUDE AND ALICE AND FRITZ AND TOM. I know it’s a cliche, but I must say it anyway – “Where has the time gone?”
The book has found its way to readers around the world and just last week I shipped another five copies to Shakespeare & Company in Paris, which has sold more copies of it than any other bookstore or online retailer, which I find so appropriate and gratifying.
Would I do it again? Yes! Do I have more tales to tell, yes! But for now, here is my post from five years ago, as I awaited the first shipment of books from Singapore:
Wasn’t it Lady Macbeth who said “What’s done is done,” at some point either before or after that bloody dagger scene? (Just checked, it’s after the dagger scene – that would be logical !)
…the deed is done!
Well, I’ve done it too and feel a bit like a parent dropping off his first child at kindergarten hoping for the best as tears well-up and Miss Crabtree leads the young one away to join the other rascals.
Miss Crabtree in charge
So what is it that’s been done – the children’s picture book which I’ve been working on for…let’s just say many,many years is on its way to a printer in Singapore!
» Read the rest of this entry «
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.
