New Handler/Kalman collaboration for 2014

[Dante]

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/girls-standing-on-lawns-maira-kalman/1116852615

Relase Date: 6th May 2014

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Girls Standing on Lawns is a unique collaboration between renowned artist and bestselling children’s book author Maira Kalman and New York Times bestselling writer Daniel Handler, better known as Lemony Snicket. This clever book contains 40 vintage photographs from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, more than a dozen original paintings by Kalman inspired by the photographs, and brief, lyrical texts by Handler. Poetic and thought-provoking, Girls Standing on Lawns is a meditation on memories, childhood, nostalgia, home, family, and the act of seeing. The gorgeous visual material sets the stage for what Handler succinctly describes as “a photograph, a painting, a sentence, a pose.” Girls, women, families, and even pets from days gone by grace the pages, looking out at us, enticing readers to imagine these people, their lives—and where they have gone.
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And while we're here, what does Mr. Handler have to say about We Are Pirates (3rd February 2014)?
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It was all set to go and then I had this professional upset where my editor was fired, and she and I had to go find this other publisher. A Series of Unfortunate Events was published by Harper Collins, and now I’m at Little Brown. That took like a year. The book is about a couple of girls in high school who team up with some people in an old age home to steal a boat and attack other boats on the San Francisco Bay. (Source)
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[Christmas Chief]

Oh dear, so we can expect further delay on the pirate novel?

I imagine Girls Standing on Lawns as an illustrated Horseradish. Certainly another Handler project to get excited for.

[Hermes]

Oct 23, 2013 15:19:01 GMT -5 Christmas Chief said:

Oh dear, so we can expect further delay on the pirate novel?

No, I think he's just explaining the delay that has happened already.

[Dante]

The online listings for We Are Pirates haven't changed from what I turned up in January. It was projected as a Bloomsbury publication for February 2014 back then, and lest we forget, Handler's editor was fired from HC and the pair moved to Little Brown before ATWQ started publishing (of course). The article I linked even says that the book is coming in 2014 (although admittedly I forgot to include the link until several hours later).

What's really interesting, now that I look at that excerpt again, is that it suggests that ATWQ's publication might have been disturbed as well by Handler's publisher shift, if all of the arrangements related to that took about a year. The publication schedule is highly regular for the series so far and Handler's getting a lot of other books out during the same period - he might be even farther ahead with the series than you'd usually expect an author to be.

[Hermes]

Which would imply that he knows where the series is going, and would have been able to make adjustments in the light of this.

[Dante]

To be fair, I assumed that anyway. ATWQ appears to me to be much more tightly-constructed than ASoUE, and Handler's said as much. The scope of the series (four books rather than thirteen) is far more manageable, too.

[bandit]

So this makes, what, 5 DH books coming out next year?

[Skelly Craig]

Oh wow, the Columbia Journal interview is awesome. I love it when Handler just answers some interesting questions about his career and life.

EDIT: Oh yeah and the new book seems interesting. Considering he's been so busy I also think it's going to be kind of like Horseradish, but shorter and with exclusive material.

[Dante]

Oct 23, 2013 18:26:13 GMT -5 bandit said:

So this makes, what, 5 DH books coming out next year?

?3, FUSI, 29 Myths, We Are Pirates, Lawns... five at least, you're right.

What a year.