Thursday, July 15, 2010

Congratulations, Jordan!



Jordan's book came out on Tuesday. I’ve always been jealous of people who can write well. Publishing a book seems almost magical to me. The closest I can come to relating to the experience is writing a 100+ dissertation, but that only ended up in a boring, non-descript blue binder, which you will not find on Amazon. I hope we get to see more books from you in the future, Jordan (I'm also expecting a few books out of some of you other Horrorthonners, you know who you are).

Pick up Jordan's book here

12 comments:

Catfreeek said...

I'm going to crack the binding on my copy today. I'm so excited to read it, congrats Jordan! We're all so proud of you :)

HandsomeStan said...

Just ordered it. The UPS guy can't come fast enough.

(That sounded weird.)

Octopunk said...

Stan loooooves the UPS guy.

We got ours yesteday too! It looks great, Jordan. Can't wait to read it.

I'm also hoping the recent Twilight mania will help fast-track this story to the big time.

Jordan said...

Thanks all! Wow.

Remember that this is a CO-WRITTEN book; credit is due to my good friend (and sooper-genius) Barney Miller (no relation to the television show) (obviously) (.)

We went in to Random House yesterday to meet about our viral marketing campaign. Everybody's very excited, and I just love hanging around inside the offices of book publishers.

Octopunk said...

Pff. Barney can get his own blog.

I'm just kidding; that's good of you to point that out, and knowing what I do about the process I'm really happy Barney was on the job.

I left the R out of "yesterday" up there. Sound like a Rhode Islander. Yestehday.

DKC said...

Yay!! That is sooper exciting. Can't wait to read it!

Unknown said...

Mine came in the mail too! Very exciting. I'll spread the word around to a few friends in an effort to help spur the viral campaing. Best of luck!

Jordan said...

IT'S A YOUNG ADULT BOOK!!!! Make sure everybody understands this while their wallets are still in their pockets.

Johnny Sweatpants said...

I haven't gotten mine yet dagnabbit! If the UPS guy doesn't insert his package in my slot tonight or I'll be quite disappointed!

HandsomeStan said...

And he still hasn't come yet...the sheer stamina is remarkable.

Johnny Sweatpants said...

Thankfully the UPS guy delivered his penis, excuse me, the book yesterday! I've only read the first few pages but I love the concept. Congrats again Jordan! I look forward to kicking back by the pool with it this weekend.

Jordan said...

Johnny, your joke reminds me of something funny I saw one time (in band camp). (Not really in band camp.) It's a style of joke I really like, that goes like this:

At my college there was this stupid "tradition" of how the Dean of Students (who was an Eastern Studies scholar) wanted everybody to go do calisthenics with him at the lakeshore at five in the morning...this was the "Kangeingo" ritual, which one was supposed to do during a certain winter week. Anyway one of the frats had parties all that week called "Kan-DRINK-o," which I thought was the funniest fucking thing ever.

Similarly, I once saw graffitti on the hot air blower in a restaurant bathroom, changing the words "insert hands into slot between hot air blowers" to read "insert PENIS" (which is the same kind of joke and also very funny).

So your version is similarly hilarious.

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