July 16, 2009

home again

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[Me and Seth sig­ning the silksc­reen…]
Got back to West Texas last night after almost a week on the road. A quick visit to Sili­con Valley for the Techc­runch Party, then an equally brief visit to New York.
I was on the East Coast mostly to co-sign the Pur­ple Cow print with Seth Godin.
That was a great after­noon, visi­ting his office in Westches­ter County. He’s a seriously inte­res­ting guy. We tal­ked a lot about all sorts of things…
Other high­lights were the #NYCt­wee­tup- about 50 peo­ple came. Secondly, I got to meet my edi­ting team at Penguin/Portfolio for the first time. They seem very happy with how the book is doing, so it was all good.

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[Update: Galley­cat, the publishing blog, also cove­red the print sig­ning:]

Hugh Mac­Leod (right) became Internet-famous by dra­wing car­toons on the back of busi­ness cards and publishing them online at his Gaping Void blog. Along the way, he gai­ned some valua­ble insights into mar­ke­ting and crea­ti­vity which he also hap­pily sha­red with rea­ders; that was enough to attract the atten­tion of the Port­fo­lio imprint at Pen­guin Group, which recently published MacLeod’s first book, Ignore Every­body.
Now, one of MacLeod’s friends (and ins­pi­ra­tions) hap­pens to be Seth Godin — if you’ve been rea­ding Galley­Cat long enough, you know we’re right there with him on that — and back in April, Mac­Leod drew a ver­sion of the cover to Godin’s Pur­ple Cow (on a much big­ger sur­face than a busi­ness card). “To me the book, as a totem, as an icon, repre­sents a huge shift in thin­king that came along, almost unin­vi­ted, back in the early 2000’s,” Mac­Leod emai­led Godin shortly after. “The dra­wing repre­sents [to me] my own abi­lity to inter­na­lize it.” By the end of the month, he was taking orders for limited-edition prints which he flew into New York City ear­lier this week to sign along­side Godin. The pre-order price for the prints was $495, but if you want one now, it’ll set you back $1,100.

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3 Responses to “home again”

  1. Ron Hogan says:
    July 16, 2009 at 2:10 PM

    Oh, cool, glad you saw that — Pur­ple Cow and Ignore Every­body have been tre­men­dously ins­pi­ring to me, and it was nice to be able to spread the word about them both, even in just a little way!

  2. hugh macleod says:
    July 16, 2009 at 7:36 PM

    Thanks for cove­ring it, Ron… Yep, it was a great after­noon…
    Hugh

  3. Basti Hirsch ッ says:
    July 22, 2009 at 3:27 AM

    Looks good, and I now have a bet­ter idea of its size. Loo­king for­ward to receive mine! (Deci­ded not to give it away as a wed­ding gift, hah. Evil me.)