Seth Fishman's Blog

A trailer for the picture book I wrote and Isabel Greenberg illustrated - A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars! Out now!

lizmoorebooks:

Hi. Here is what I’ve been working on for the past four years.

The galleys came in toward the end of December and they are big and beautiful.

The real deal will be available July 26, 2016, which seems both very far away and not far away enough.

Here’s what it’s all about (from the publisher’s description):

THE UNSEEN WORLD follows Ada Sibelius as she is raised by David, her single father, who is the brilliant, eccentric, socially inept head of a 1980s-era computer science lab in Boston. Homeschooled, Ada accompanies him to work every day; by twelve, she is a painfully shy prodigy. The lab begins to gain acclaim at the same time that David’s mind begins to falter and his mysterious past comes into question. When her father moves into a nursing home, Ada is taken in by one of David’s colleagues. She embarks on a mission to uncover her father’s secrets: a process that carries her from childhood to adulthood. Eventually, Ada pioneers a type of software that enables her to make contact with her past and to reconcile the man she thought she knew with the truth. 

You can already add it on Goodreads, pre-order it, or request a NetGalley if you are into that.

In some ways, the half-year stretch before a book comes out is the best time; anything can happen. In others, it is the worst, longest stretch of months there ever was. 

ryannorth:

Choose-your-own-path Shakespeare
with an amazing cover by @gingerhazewith over 100 endings each illustrated by THE BEST ARTISTS WORKING TODAYwith the path Shakespeare took through the book illustrated by tiny heartswith an interview at The Mary Sue talking about the creative processwhich you can pre-order RIGHT NOWwhat are you waiting for this book is gonna be off the hook and I say that as an actual cross-temporal collaborator with Shakespeare

Hank Green uses xkcd’s Thing Explainer to talk solar system!

fozmeadows:

Have a video of me singing the ‘It All Goes Around’ song from @annleckie‘s awesome Ancillary series, because reasons.

Namely: I was out with my toddler just now, and I often sing to him while we’re walking. The lyrics suddenly popped into my head, along with a random little tune to match; he seemed to enjoy it, and so when we got home, this happened.

beatonna:

Well that is an hour and a half of questions and answers - I don’t want to clog people’s tumblrs any more than I already have so I’ll put a pin in it for now.  But this was really nice, it is nice to talk to you!  Maybe from time to time I will answer more things since there were so many.  Thank you for your questions!  Have a nice afternoon!  

xo

Kate

My family is very good about the comics I make about them.  Mostly they are just observations of day-to-day things, and in the end, those comics are about love and connection.  I’m really glad when other people like them or can relate to them, because it makes me feel closer to my readers as a human being.  The fact that I make them is just part of the wallpaper at home now, though publishing them would be a different story.  I don’t cross lines that would make my parents uncomfortable.

beatonna:

Good morning to you from Toronto!  I’m joining the fabulous roster at Tumblr’s Answer Time tomorrow, Sept 10th!  Here’s what is going on and what you need to know:

It is happening Thursday, September 10th, at 2pm EST, that’s 11am PST.  You go to my ask box, we set it up for this because I don’t usually have one!  That is right here.  Ask away.   Come 2pm tomorrow, I’ll answer as many questions as I can in an hour.My new book, Step Aside Pops, is coming out next week!  It’s a follow up to Hark A Vagrant, which came out in 2011.  It is full to the rafters with comics.  I’m very excited and I hope you are too.My picture book, The Princess and the Pony, is in stores now!Hooray for/sorry for jamming your tumblr feed tomorrow!  See you there!

Hurrah

Brainstorming

Big news! I’m gonna have a picture book baby!