I've got a book deal!
Creative Guy Publishing, which has put out books such as Happy Woman Magazine's satire anthology Random Acts of Malice, has agreed to publish a small softcover collection of my geek humor. More to the point, it will include How to install Linux on a dead badger and Your corporate network and the forces of darkness and sundry other silly stuff that hasn't made it to E2 yet.
It will be illustrated by DE Christman, and we're hoping to have it out by the end of 2006.
So, big thanks go out to all the Everythingians who provided helpful feedback on the original dead badger piece and encouraged me on the road to ridiculousness. Particular thanks go out to Jet-Poop, quizro and czeano.
Some of you know that this will be my second book deal. The first, for a novel that has thus far gone unfinished, died a sudden and unseemly death when the publishing company abruptly got blasted out of the water by its parent corporation. I had a signed contract and an advance and everything, but no matter: no book. Ah well. These things happen. My husband went through a far more frustrating experience when one of his books was printed and all ready to go but due to sudden publisher insolvency languished in a warehouse for the better part of a year instead of actually making it to market.
So, I of all people am well aware that the only way you're sure you're going to have a book is when you find it on the shelf at Barnes and Noble. But I have a good feeling about this. CGP is small but focused, and the books they've been putting out have been getting better and better.
I'm excited about this. Ridiculously excited. It feels like all the misalignments in my life of the past four years are finally straightening out.