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Tomorrow, Wednesday, March 10, please join me for a presentation at the Flushing Branch of the Queens Library. Here are the vitals:
41-17 Main Street
Flushing, NY 11355
(718) 661-1200
3:30 – 4:30 PM
I’ll be showing slides, talking about making comics, and doing some drawings. I’ll have books for sale, too!
Tomorrow, March 3, I will be on a panel at the New York Public Library! Please join myself and Barry Lyga for the Professional Panel–part of a week-long series devoted to teen readers, fandom, and everything manga/music/games/books.
Our panel is at 4 PM, in the Community Room of the Grand Central branch (46th Street between Lexington and 3rd). It’s located next to Teen Central on the 2nd floor. Admission is free and all are welcome!
Don’t forget–there’s a SMILE GIVEAWAY CONTEST going on right now! The deadline (Sunday, February 28) is quickly approaching, so get your entries in soon.
The contest is simple: Tell us your most embarrassing dental story! It can be true or false, and you can submit in just about any format you wish: an essay, a comic, a drawing, a video…check out the link for complete rules. I’m judging this contest along with blogger Little Willow, and I look forward to commiserating with your tales. The winner will receive a free copy of Smile!
A huge ‘thank you’ to everyone who attended my book release party Saturday–it was an unprecedented success, and I had an absolute blast. Special thanks to Alex and Elsbeth at Rocketship; Marion, Michele, and Alex for the photos; Steve and Matt for providing soundtrack help; Gina for bringing cookies; and Dave for helping me run everything smoothly (and doing all the other voices during my reading!).
Braces-friendly food: applesauce, blue Jell-O, ice cream, smile-shaped cookies, and Smile French Fries!
The live reading and presentation, in front of a packed house.
The past couple of weeks have been amazing: thanks to everyone who has emailed me, blogged, Tweeted, Facebooked, linked to my site, sent text messages and photos, written reviews on Amazon and Goodreads; bought the last copy at their local store; asked store owners to order the book; lent their book to a friend; or simply told me they enjoyed it. I’m blown away by the response so far, and can’t wait to share Smile with more new readers. Thank you.
Really…I can’t say it enough!
Just a reminder: THIS SATURDAY AFTERNOON, my book release party goes down in Brooklyn, NY!
Smile Book Release Party!
Saturday, February 13, 2010
4-6 PM
Rocketship
208 Smith Street
Brooklyn, NY
Visit Rocketship’s website for more information.
*Live visual reading, with an embarrassing Valentine’s theme!
*Braces-friendly food!
*90s tunes!
All ages are most welcome. I’ve come up with some fun surprises for all the party guests, so please come by, get your book signed, see my presentation, and have a good time!
To celebrate the release of SMILE, I drew an exclusive comic strip for Scholastic’s Ink Splot Blog, about novocaine! Click here to read. Novocaine is something almost everyone is familiar with, but for some reason, I never drew a page of the actual book talking about how weird it feels.
Another fun thing I did this week was participating in my very first Hourly Comic Day, where you draw a short comic for every hour of the day you’re awake. It was a challenge! HCD fell on the day right before SMILE’s release, so I was excited and busy and nervous about it. Enjoy.
SMILE is in book stores today!! I’ve heard from sources ’round the US and Canada that it’s definitely stocked in Borders, Barnes & Noble, Chapters, and Indigo. Check the kids’ graphic novels and manga sections. If you can’t find it, ask someone to help you!
Online orders are now listed as “In Stock,” so if you ordered a copy online, it should ship right away. One of the best things you can do, as a reader, is leave some feedback on sites like Amazon, B&N, Goodreads, of even your own blog! Word of mouth is the very best way for a book like SMILE to succeed. I appreciate every word, and every bit of feedback.
So exciting. I’m going to hit a couple of stores in New York today, and see if I can get photos…
Presenting: A video trailer we made to promote Smile! It was compiled and animated by my good friend Alison Wilgus, with music by Harry and the Potters–enjoy!
One week till the book is in stores…
Today, I’m pleased to announce the first SMILE GIVEAWAY CONTEST!
Little Willow, over at Slayground.net, wants to hear your most embarrassing dental story! You can submit the story as an essay, a comic, an illustration, a photo, a web video…anything you like! Best of all, the stories can be true or false, so anyone can enter (even those of you lucky enough to have never had any dental drama in your lives)!
The contest will run until February 28, so you’ve got a bit of time to come up with your entry. Have fun with this! I’m helping to judge at the end, so I’ll get to see all of the entries, too. I can’t wait.
In addition to the contest, LW is also collecting quotes from some of her readers, answering the question, “What makes you smile?” I gave the first answer, and this link will continue to update with more answers throughout the month. Have a look! 
I’m excited to to announce that you can now read an 8-page preview of Smile, in full-color, at Graphic Novel Reporter! And while you’re there, you can also read an interview with me, as well as read their review of the book. Whew! Thanks, GNR!
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