Yesterday we got yet another exciting thing in the mail – our very first magazine advertisement. Yes, I know, this might not SEEM like a big deal, but when you’ve be resting comfortably in obscurity for the past 10 months or so, it’s quite exciting to see your name in lights. We took out an ad on the back cover of the summer issue of Brain,Child magazine. We had met the folks who run Brain,Child (a friendly, passionate, wise bunch) when our Idiots’Books and Bobbledy Books booth was fortuitously assigned to be next to theirs at the AWP Bookfair.
Brain,Child is a parenting magazine in the sense that it is written for parents about parenting and kid issues, but it’s heavy on memoir, opinion and fiction and avoids articles like “5 Things You Must Do to Keep Your Kids From Becoming Sociopaths (Hint: They all have to do with weird fad diets!)”. It’s called “The Magazine for Thinking Mothers” but thinking fathers probably enjoy it too.
Anyway – Marcelle sent us some copies and it was so very exciting to see our first [very] big ad.
So – for those of you who are coming to us via Brain,Child – WELCOME! The reason this is so exciting to us is that we are literally a mom-and-pop shop around here. And, seriously, this is what we REALLY look like, RIGHT NOW:
So the thought of some 35,000+ sets of eyes looking at our silly mugs out there in the ether is both thrilling and humbling. We’d love to hear from any of you (email Matthew here) – since we are a mom-and-pop operation, that means at least one of us will be up late at night responding to emails (and since I gave you Matthew’s email address, it will be him, not me, ha ha!) (he IS the writer, after all).
We also do weekly drawing/writing prompts, which you can SIGN UP FOR HERE.
AND we do a weekly auction of original illustrations, so if you’re interested in being alerted to those by email, you can SIGN UP FOR AUCTION ALERTS HERE.
Anyway. Thanks to new folks for stopping by, and thanks to all you stalwarts out there who continue to support us in our grand, grand adventure.
I just may purchase the magazine, for the sole purpose of owning your advertisement…and perhaps I’ll peruse the pages inside, I mean it must be an okay publication if YOU cool kids are advertising in it. Congrats!