Mock it Up, Show You What I Got
Posted in Uncategorized on 01/08/2010 06:04 pm by jessIt all started when Josh Berk, one of the Tenners (novelists debuting in 2010), posted something very helpful on the site, and someone referred to him as a font.
I wrote, “Yes, but which one!”
And he, ever witty, wrote, “Mostly I feel like Wingdings.”
Then, since I only have limited flashes of genius each day (sorry), I Tweeted, “If you were a font, what would you be?”
Josh gamely repeated his Wingdings comment, and Amy Brecount White turned me on to this–a bunch of bearded men dancing, New Wave video-style, to a an ode they’d written to a typeface.
In the words of one of my protagonists: that video is hot, hot, hot. (She probably says that about a video, too. There’s a lot of video in Nice and Mean. Actually, it’s about making a video.) But these guys’ video is hot in another way, although sort of like PS22, which I wrote about last month. They’re so Into It. And you know, I think I really like Into It.
And it all started because Josh Berk was a font of information. That’s what we like about the internets. Electric boogie all day long.
Oh: I got my ARCs (Advanced Reader Copies) of Nice and Mean today. They’re adorable. They look just like what I’d think a book of mine would look like. Way to bury the lead, I know. But I’m still thinking how I’m going to announce it more publicly, with cute pictures n giveaways n stuff. So instead I post about fonts.
01/08/2010 at 6:48 pm
You *did* bury the lead! Getting ARCs is very exciting! Hurray! But indeed that font video is fantastic. Also, did I mention that I’m Wingdings? 😉
01/11/2010 at 8:38 pm
congrads on ARCs. Josh is hilarious.
01/11/2010 at 11:30 pm
I found your site from the Comment Challenge and enjoyed reading the beginning of Nice and Mean–great that you posted that on your website! And congratulations on the ARCs! Meg
01/12/2010 at 2:46 am
Love your title! And were you beyond excited to see the ARCs!? (I found you via the Comment Challenge.)
01/12/2010 at 9:18 am
Hey, nice to see you here, new visitors! Makes me even more motivated to Comment Challenge my own self!
01/12/2010 at 2:43 pm
Hilarious video! Really imaginative. Thanks!