{"id":3799,"date":"2015-07-23T00:01:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T06:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3799"},"modified":"2015-07-23T12:24:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T18:24:22","slug":"abby-and-the-really-truly-good-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3799","title":{"rendered":"Abby and the Really Truly Good Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/07\/Abby-Hanlon-photo-by-Sophie Elbrickuse.jpg\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">I pick up my kids every day from the school bus at 2:45, so within an already tight production schedule, I have a limited time each day to work. But that also means I have limited time to worry. When I\u2019m working, I focus on making the best book possible for myself, my kids, and my editor. Beyond that, I don\u2019t allow myself to think too much about how the book is going to be received, because those thoughts are so counter-productive to creative work.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Over at <em>Kirkus<\/em> today, I talk to author-illustrator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2453\">Abby Hanlon<\/a><\/strong>, pictured here, about her newest book, <em>Dory and the Real True Friend<\/em> (Dial, July 2015), which sees the return of one of my favorite characters. (Dory, of course.) That link is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/juggling-stories-abby-hanlon\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Last October (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3560\">here<\/a><\/strong>), Abby and I talked about the first book, <em>Dory Fantasmagory<\/em>. It&#8217;s an art-filled post, my favorite kind of post. <\/p>\n<p>Both of these books are the kind of funny that makes your sides hurt from all the laughing. <\/p>\n<p>Next week, I&#8217;ll have some art from the new book, as well as some early sketches. <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of Abby taken by Sophie Elbrick and used by her permission.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I pick up my kids every day from the school bus at 2:45, so within an already tight production schedule, I have a limited time each day to work. But that also means I have limited time to worry. When I\u2019m working, I focus on making the best book possible for myself, my kids, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intermediate","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}