Pub Day!!!

Well, it's finally here--PUB DAY!

I know I'D TELL YOU I LOVE YOU BUT THEN I'D HAVE TO KILL YOU has been popping up for a while now, but today is officially it. If you can't find the book after today, well then you need to talk (politely) to someone at the store and see if they've got it somewhere else and, if not, they'll probably order it.

It's here. It's finally here!

But I have to say pub days do tend to be a tad on the anticlimactic side. It's not like..say..washing your car.

I love washing my car. It is perhaps my favorite job ever, or at least my favorite type of job.

You start out with a dirty car. You can see the dirt. You know it needs to come off.

Then you spray it and scrub it and you can see the dirt slowly dripping off and you know you’re making progress.

Ten minutes later you can stand back, slap your wet hands together, and watch the sun glisten off the shiny clean paint and think “I did this.”

Book publishing…well…it's not quite that simple.

Still, it's pretty freaking cool.

After all, a clean car won't get you lots of fan mail (by the way, big thanks to Kinsey, Tasha, Silver, Gena, Jana, Liz & Libby who wrote over the weekend!)

And a clean car doesn't make you feel quite as shivery as seeing your book on the shelves and having the manager say that they've already sold a bunch of copies.

Oh, and a clean car doesn't let you work with amazing people like Donna Bray, a woman who I think might be the most talented children's book editor working in publishing today.

And no matter how hard I scrub my car I will never make it as beautiful as the cover the wonderful people at Hyperion developed for me.

It’s an amazing experience and I'm very, very grateful.

I also need to go wash my car.

--Ally

Have you ordered your copy yet? If not, what are you waiting for? All the cool kids are doing it.