{"id":587,"date":"2008-11-16T05:00:24","date_gmt":"2008-11-16T09:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/?p=587"},"modified":"2008-11-16T05:00:24","modified_gmt":"2008-11-16T09:00:24","slug":"the-absolutely-true-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/16\/the-absolutely-true-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Absolutely True Sequel!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sherman and I did a reading today at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toptentoys.com\/\">Top Ten Toys<\/a>, and I brought him a present, the very first drawing I did for <em>Diary<\/em>. Four years ago, he emailed me to ask if I was interested in doing cartoons for his next novel: &#8220;I&#8217;m thinking it&#8217;ll be something like this: &#8216;I was born with water on the brain. [cartoon of a fish tank with a brain floating in it, with a confused fish] Okay, so that&#8217;s not exctly true. I was actually born with too much cerebral spinal fluid inside my skull.'&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>As I told the audience today, I figured, &#8220;show, don&#8217;t tell,&#8221; and instead of replying, YES PLEASE, COUNT ME IN!!!!!!!!!!!!, I did the drawing right away (on tracing paper. I&#8217;m not sure why. It was in close grabbing range?), inserted it into his text, and sent it back. He replied right back and said, you&#8217;re in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/fishtankemailoriginal_lorez.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/fishtankemailoriginal_lorez.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"fishtankemailoriginal_lorez\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-588\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today he told me he had a gift for me, too. He just signed with Little, Brown for the next book in the series, <em>The Magic and Tragic Year of My Broken Thumb<\/em>, and I should expect a call from the editor soon. Wow! I grabbed his sleeve and kind of hyperventilated when he told me. Hooray!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sherman and I did a reading today at Top Ten Toys, and I brought him a present, the very first drawing I did for Diary. Four years ago, he emailed me to ask if I was interested in doing cartoons for his next novel: &#8220;I&#8217;m thinking it&#8217;ll be something like this: &#8216;I was born with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/16\/the-absolutely-true-sequel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Absolutely True Sequel!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}