Why I Have Been Missing In Action
I feel that I have been missing in action around the interwebs lately, with little time for Facebook, Twitter, answering emails, reading, commenting on or linking to blogs I love, or responding to comments here on Childhood 101…the to-do list goes on and on. I appreciate every comment and email I receive and read them all, it is just a little hectic here at the moment… and it is not just because we have a bub on the way and a kitchen under renovation!
I have a huge March 30 deadline…
And it is making my knees quiver…
And my insides quake…
And it’s keeping me very, very busy!
You see, on March 30th the completed manuscript for my book is due. Yep, I have been busy, squirrelled away writing a book. Well, two-thirds of a book really. My e-book, Art Not Craft: The Process of Learning Creatively, is the basis for a to-be-expanded, real paper and ink book!
Let me back up a little and share the story so far. Back in April last year, not long after the e-book was published, the extraordinarily talented MaryAnn F. Kohl (herself a many times over published author of books about children and creativity) contacted me with an invitation to act as my agent to find a publisher for Art Not Craft. You could have knocked me down with a feather! I asked lots of questions and MaryAnn was very patient with me and a month or so later she was off to find me a publisher.
I think I may have actually momentarily fainted when the first early childhood resource publisher she approached on my behalf, Gryphon House, said yes! I remember the moment I first saw the email. It was a Saturday. We had just spent the morning hunting for a new-to-us car and had stopped in at a very busy fast food outlet for sustenance. Dad 101 wondered why I was grinning and waving my phone manically at him to come back from the massive queue. Needless to say, he was soon grinning from ear to ear as well.
After more questions and much to-ing and fro-ing, almost six months after MaryAnn’s initial email, we had an agreement and I had a deadline! It seemed so long ago then but a nasty bout of pneumonia, a pregnancy, Christmas and New Year, and starting kindy seem to have made it appear on the horizon much more quickly than I expected it to.
So I apologise if your email is one of those sitting in my inbox waiting to be actioned, or if you have asked me a question on Facebook or the blog and I haven’t had a chance to respond. I have been more than a little preoccupied.
But I promise I will get back to you… after March 30!
Awesome! How exciting for you!! Congratulations 🙂 🙂
How exciting! Good luck with your deadline!
Can’t wait to hear more about the book. We have your e-book and love it so I can only imagine how great the new book with be!!
Oh my goodness, Christie! That is amazing news! Congratulations! You deserve this!!
Oh very well done!
Your e-book has been the source of much diversion around here, and I think it would be a great printed resource. Congratulations 🙂
Oh, and just think – it’ll be like having twins. A new baby and a new book 😉
Congratulations! So happy for you, Christie. I look forward to seeing it the shops so I can point it out to people and say “OMG I KNOW HER!” 🙂
Congratulations!! Most deserving 🙂
WooHoo!!! Go you good thing, keep doing what you need to do to get the job done. So proud x
Wow!! Congratulations – can’t wait to see it!! Am sure it will be totally amazing!
That’s so exciting! Congratulations … so many wonderful things happening at once. Well done!
Congratulations! How exciting!!!
YAY !! i do love a hardcover book 🙂 congrats !!
Lauren
How incredibly exciting! Congratulations.
That is fantastic! I am going to need to get a copy of that!!!!
SO exciting…and I think I’ll have to buy a copy for myself and every baby shower gift henceforth. 🙂 xx
Congratulations! You did well keeping that a secret – given how justifiably proud you must be. Well done!
Congratulations on such wonderful news!
That’s brilliant news! I am very pleased for you. And selfishly, I am very pleased for me as I still prefer hard copies to the e-versions. Big, big congratulations to you, Christie x
Congratulations! That is wonderful news 🙂
Congratulations! Well deserved. 🙂
wow!!! so excited for you! all of us members of the KBN can order autographed copies, right? such an amazing experience for you!
Wow! How cool – congratulations.
WOW! Huge congratulations, that’s super exciting!
Well done Christie! Congratulations. It is well deserved 🙂
Wow! That is so fantastic, Christie. So well deserved. I’m so excited for you. Woohoo!!
Congratulations Christie – what wonderful news.
Congratulations – I can’t wait to bring your book into our home!
Congratulations Christie….a real book! Wow~Pop and I are so proud of you. Your talent really shines and you deserve all the accolades you get. I know there isn’t a lot we can do but if there is anything at all we can do to help you only have to ask. xx
How fantastic! I hope you have a chapter about the importance of kicking back on the couch and watching the kids amuse themselves! Great work 🙂
Woohoo! Wow… hatching a baby and a book at once! You must be superwoman! Best of luck with it all. I hope it goes wonderfully well.
Fantastic……you hard work has been rewarded…Congratulations!
Congratulations!!!! Wow!!!
SOOOOO excited for you!! and can’t wait to get a copy of my very own 🙂
wow, what a dream come true!! So happy for you!!!
Wonderful, Christie! Can’t wait to see your book in print!
That is absolutely amazing! Congratulations! Let us know how the rest of it goes and when we can look for your new book 🙂
How exciting! So happy for you, Christie – yahoo! 🙂
Congratulations Christie.
I had so much fun helping you find a publisher! I was prepared to send it to at least four, including my own company Bright Ring, so was equally delighted when the first company made an offer. It took longer than usual once their offer was made, and I’m so pleased it came to be. We had no way of knowing about the pneumonia and other excitement. I can promise all of you that when I met with Gryphon House on Christie’s behalf, they were unanimously over the moon about Christie’s book and her layout and her photos and Christie herself. I’m as excited as Christie to see the finished published book. SOOOO EXCITING!
Congratulations! Everything you do is amazing, can’t wait to read your new book! Well done!
I am over the moon excited for you!
the first of many more to come 😉
congrats, that is awesome news. So deserving. I love reading stories like this.
That is just awesome news I know I’ll be buying one for work and one for home xx
Oh my goodness Christie, fantastic news!! Congratulations, what a huge year for you and your family! Sending you much love, can’t wait to see the final results of all your hard work x
Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!
This is wonderful news! Congratulations!! Can’t wait to go into a bookstore and pick up a copy 🙂
Congratulations Christie, that is SO SO SO exciting! I can’t wait to see it in print!