I Want My Free Cupcakes!
Okay, so here’s the thing about my book… You know how a normal book is “organized” into “chapters” that tell a “story”? Mine’s not. Mine is more of a “collection” of “letters” that I wrote to people, and somebody’s gone and “collected them up” in the order I wrote them. I think maybe they found them all in the dumpster behind my school…or something. I’ll have to look into that.
Anyway, there’s some question about whether THE PENGUINS OF DOOM is a “chapter book” without “chapters” or a “letter book”—which is something nobody has ever heard of. Normally I wouldn’t care, but there are snacks on the line. If the book is a chapter book, I would get delicious cupcakes from a nice library lady in New York. But if it’s a letter book, I’d only get some kind of consolation prize. Like bran muffins. Not even Sexta would eat bran muffins!
Update: They’re telling me now that my book is “epistolary,” which means “written in the form of letters.” It also means that enough people have done books like this before that they had to come up with an entirely new word to describe it. Like LONGER LETTER LATER by Paula Danziger and Ann Martin. And here I thought I was the only one!
*sigh* No cupcakes for me!