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12/13/2012

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This, then, is the author’s photo as it will appear on the dust jacket of What We Found in the Sofa, unless somebody comes up with a better idea, like a picture of a sock puppet.

This is me, after getting the memo from my publisher that all Young Readers authors, with the exception of James Patterson, are expected to appear in publicity photos dressed as the Belgian comic book character Tintin. (My publisher is the American distributor of the Tintin books, so I suppose it makes some sort of sense, although, now that I think of it, the e-mail telling me to dress this way did end with the words
snicker * snicker * snicker, in exactly that size font, so I’m beginning to wonder.)

The photo was taken at the rate of 1 FPL - 1 Frame Per Lifetime - as opposed to the Hollywood standard of 24 FPS - 24 Frames Per Second - or the experimental 48 FPS director Peter Jackson used on some prints of his recently released movie The Hobbit. At 1 FPL, the phenomenon known as Persistence of Vision does not kick in, so if you look at my picture very closely, you’ll see it doesn’t seem to move at all.
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This is what the people who saw the photo early on liked best about it.
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The French Connection

12/7/2012

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Little, Brown just sold the French rights to What We Found in the Sofa to Editions Des Grandes Personnes (or, as I would have translated it in my third year of high school French, Big Huge Person Books, which should tell you how well I did in high school French and further tells you why I will not be trusted to translate my own book. The name of the company is somewhat better rendered into English as Grown-Up Books, but that doesn’t make much sense, since WWFITS is aimed at a Middle School audience and not adults, unless there’s some sort of nationwide conspiracy in France to convince young people they’re actually older than they are so they can be gotten into the workforce earlier to boost the economy. When I was last in Paris, there did seem to be a lot of twelve-year-olds driving taxis.)
In my younger days I was corrupted by a series of French graphic novels depicting the exploits of Asterix the Gaul; it seems only fair that I now get to send the French something Asterix, and more specifically his friend Obelix, had an influence on. 

The French audiobook will be performed by mimes.

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    Henry Clark 

    Pictured here on the day he sold What We Found in the Sofa. His mood is cautiously optimistic.

    You should see him when he's happy.

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