dantat.com: A book party, my agent, Japanese subtitles, and a missing page

The ravaging of Casa De Santat continues...

I attended Lisa Yee's book opening for Absolutely, Maybe on Sunday...

So I just wanted to warn you all, that if you see images of me floating around on the internet looking like this. Let the truth be told that that man in the picture is an impostor.

I did get to see my agent at the book signing though. Here's me and Jodi Reamer. Everyone calls her "THE REAMER" because she's so tough.

OK, I lied, no one else calls her "The Reamer"... In fact, I've never even said it to her face because I'm so intimidated by her....

...Please don't tell her I blogged about this...

...seriously....She's also lawyer AND has a black belt in Hapkido...

In other news, I finished the dummy book for "Oh No" and recently turned it in to the editor at Hyperion who seemed to really dig it. As some of you may know from previous blogs posted about this book I was heavily influenced by my childhood love for Japanese monster flicks.

What some of you may NOT know is that I had a friend of mine (from France of all places) translate all the text for me into Japanese so that the book has Japanese subtitles and it seems to be OK with the editor!

Chalk one up for me and author Mac Barnett! (Hi-Fiving myself)

I recently got my ARC's of Bobby VS. Girls (Accidentally). It feels so quick considering I turned in the final art about 3 weeks ago, but I learned that author, Lisa Yee, (see above) did NOT receive her copies in the mail.

So I taunted her via email....

....She was not amused.... I had one of my copies sent over to her house and minutes later Lisa had informed me that the last page of text was MISSING!

We informed the editor and they are now reprinting all of the ARCs all over again. YAY for print!

Lastly, I made this video of my darling friend Amy Goldman Koss to help promote her books....

and SPEAKING of promotion. Since I have a little down time in between projects (not really but I'm a little sick right now so I'm procrastinating) I'm currently working on a trailer for "Always Lots of Heinies at the Zoo" but even better is that I discovered that STERLING PUBLISHING is recording an original song for CHICKEN DANCE and offering up a contest on Youtube for people to enter and win prizes! Now THAT is the way a publisher should treat a book. Let me just also add from a book creator to a publisher, If you give a little love to your product, then the people who generate the content will return that love back two fold.