Hi all! This book is available on the shelves now and on Amazon.com, and it’s a fantastic gift item for the upcoming Christmas season – the “Boy’s Book of Positive Quotations”, written by Steve Deger and illustrated by Yours Truly. As the title suggests, it’s a book of uplifting quotations, perfect for young boys (but just about anybody), with 33 short self-contained comics interspersed throughout.
It’s a 4″ x 6″ bound hardcover book and a super cute gift item, and available from typical bookstores and also Wal-mart. I worked on this from January till May this year, and now that it’s finally on the market with a trailer of awesomeness *points down* that I get to urge you all to get a copy of this book. It’s part of a best-selling inspirational book series, and the first one to have comic inserts – certainly this can only be a good thing for everyone. Watch the trailer down below for all the relevant info, and visit Jazma Online’s interview with Steve Deger and me.
Some random quotes from the book (and this is a thick book):
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle
– Benjamin Franklin, Inventor, statesman and US founding father
Any life truly lived is a risky business, and if one puts up too many fences against the risks one ends by shutting out life itself
– Kenneth S. Davis, Historian
Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn’t mean he lacks vision
– Stevie Wonder, Award-winning blind singer and song-writer
Below are some bios of the people involved in making the video trailer. Considering how awesome the trailer is, by all means check out their websites and their other works! Oh, as for me, I’m finishing the last 1/3 of “Odd Is On Our Side”. Definitely better than the first book, it is!
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Steve Deger is a bestselling inspirational author. He is the co-creator of the Positive Quotation series, which has sold more than half a million copies and spent more than two years on the U.S. bestseller charts for reference, self-help, and young adult nonfiction. He is the book publisher at Fairview Press, whose authors have been featured on Oprah, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, the Today show, and in hundreds of other media outlets. Steve lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Information on the Boy’s Book of Positive Quotations can be found at http://www.fairviewpress.org/
Lindsey Testolin is a New York filmmaker whose work has been screened or featured in venues such as the Sundance Film Festival, the Vienna Independent Short Films Festival, the Melbourne International Animation Festival and the New Zealand Film Festival. She won two Telly Awards for her direction of Dan Pink’s book trailer “The Adventures of Johnny Bunko”, which featured manga artwork by Rob Ten Pas, who won the Grand Prize Award in TokyoPop’s Rising Stars of Manga competition. Visit Lindsey’s website at http://www.lindseytestolin.com/ .
The Blind Shake is a punk/fuzz rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Brothers Jim and Mike Blaha—along with Dave Roper—started The Blind Shake and released their first recording in 2004. They have gone on to release two full length albums and a handful of 7″ records with Indie label Learning Curve Records. In 2009, they released a split album called “Cold Town/Soft Zodiac” with noise rock icon Michael Yonkers, whose 1968 album “Microminiature Love” was re-released in 2003 by Seattle’s legendary SubPop records . Visit their website at www.theblindshake.com or hear an archived public radio interview and studio session at: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/08/03/the_blind_shake/ .