Poster art copyright 2012 Jeremy Holmes
Here is the poster promoting my book from yesterday’s Little, Brown Young Reader’s Spring Preview. I’ve included a Box of Boogers to indicate scale. (It occurs to me that some of you may be unfamiliar with the size of a Box of Boogers. A Box of Boogers is the size of a Volkswagen. Meaning the poster my publisher printed for me is the size of a Times Square billboard. It’s nice that they’ve really gotten behind the book.)
No, wait. Seriously. I swiped the Box of Boogers (not to be confused with Box O’Boogers, the famous Irish pugilist) from the desk of my editor. She seemed relieved to get rid of it. It seems LBYR is about to publish a book with the word “Booger” in the title, and the candy just found its way into her office. (There are precedents for books - not even specifically children’s books - with “booger” in the title. I can cite De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Booger-Eater; Dickens’ A Tale of Two Boogers; and, of course, Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Boogervilles.) My editor assured me she had not tried any of the box's contents, but would be interested in hearing back from me after I had.
No, wait. Seriously. I swiped the Box of Boogers (not to be confused with Box O’Boogers, the famous Irish pugilist) from the desk of my editor. She seemed relieved to get rid of it. It seems LBYR is about to publish a book with the word “Booger” in the title, and the candy just found its way into her office. (There are precedents for books - not even specifically children’s books - with “booger” in the title. I can cite De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Booger-Eater; Dickens’ A Tale of Two Boogers; and, of course, Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Boogervilles.) My editor assured me she had not tried any of the box's contents, but would be interested in hearing back from me after I had.
| I have since tried a few, and while I’d love to report that the candy-maker had brilliantly married content to form, and they are utterly tasteless, honesty compels me to say there was a piquant lemon-lime flavor with an earthy undercurrent of plum and a complex oak finish. |  |
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