{"id":15417,"date":"2016-06-06T05:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=15417"},"modified":"2016-06-06T07:42:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T14:42:06","slug":"a-rather-big-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=15417","title":{"rendered":"A rather big announcement…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"purple-flowers\"<\/p>\n

It was a jubilant and triumphant weekend. After months and months of preparing, hoping, sketching, querying, refining and negotiating, I received a confirmation: I will be publishing two more books with Sasquatch Books<\/a>!!!<\/p>\n

In fact, behind the scenes, I’ve already been working on book #3 (those pesky deadlines), but\u00a0until the countersigned contracts and advance check were in my nervous, sweaty palms, it\u00a0felt like make-believe and not at\u00a0all truly true. And this past Saturday, I had a very happy mail day indeed. Of course I’d told my most trusted circle of friends and family members a while ago when discussions started, but I seem to have a hard time convincing myself that these things\u00a0will actually materialize.<\/p>\n

\"book-sneakpeek\"<\/p>\n

This image above is a little segment of the proposal I assembled for the 2-book deal. We’re making Little Kunoichi<\/a><\/em> into a series of sorts, and the next one will be released Fall of 2017. Followed by another book in the Fall of 2018. I’m beyond grateful,\u00a0especially for my editor who champions the ideas that I toss out willy nilly like errant spaghetti noodles,\u00a0crossing my fingers\u00a0that something will stick.\u00a0And I’m thankful\u00a0for you! Without this blog space, and without the AMAZING\u00a0Furoku<\/em> membership (the most awesome of awesomest groups ever) which gives me the mental and financial buffer that powers me\u00a0through…well, I shudder to think what I would be doing. Most likely flipping burgers<\/a>. No shame in that, sure, but oh, the grease stains!<\/p>\n

“It’s not luck anymore, is it?” a good friend asked me when I told her the joyous book news. I don’t know — I still think lady luck and timing have\u00a0significant parts\u00a0to play, but I do hope that I’ve become a little more assertive and persistent\u00a0compared to my past self.<\/p>\n

I started this blog on July 16, 2012, almost exactly four years ago. As I published that first post, I told myself that I would do everything that felt right and would stay open-minded. Sometimes, the things I did troubled and puzzled the people around me, particularly those closest to me. Sometimes, I felt alone and very lost and a bit coo coo for cocoa puffs. Sometimes, I couldn’t believe I got to live this remarkable life. And that last part…those moments are increasing slowly, slowly, slowly.<\/p>\n

Whew. It’s been an eventful year already! I hope you’ll be patient with me as I figure out how to juggle the multiple projects I have going on in the background, and I am yearning for some extended sewing time, but I’m doing little bits when I can. I look forward to sharing some sewing\u00a0with you eventually.<\/p>\n

The purple bouquet at the very top was actually a gift from a friend at\u00a0the Sewing Happiness<\/em> launch party, but it made me think of the cover of Little Kunoichi<\/em> —\u00a0I was looking at the various meanings ascribed to the purple hue, and the ones that jumped out at me were: creativity, mystery and magic. Yep. It all feels like mysterious creative magic to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a jubilant and triumphant weekend. After months and months of preparing, hoping, sketching, querying, refining and negotiating, I received a confirmation: I will be publishing two more books with Sasquatch Books!!! In fact, behind the scenes, I’ve already been working on book #3 (those pesky deadlines), but\u00a0until the countersigned contracts and advance check were in my nervous, sweaty palms, it\u00a0felt like make-believe and not at\u00a0all truly true. And this past Saturday, I had a very happy mail day indeed. Of course I’d told my most trusted circle of friends and family members a while ago when discussions started, but I seem to have a hard time convincing myself that these things\u00a0will actually materialize. This image above is a little segment of the proposal I assembled for the 2-book deal. We’re making Little Kunoichi into a series of sorts, and the next one will be released Fall of 2017. Followed by another book in the Fall of 2018. I’m beyond grateful,\u00a0especially for my editor who champions the ideas that I toss out willy nilly like errant spaghetti noodles,\u00a0crossing my fingers\u00a0that something will stick.\u00a0And I’m thankful\u00a0for you! Without this blog space, and without the AMAZING\u00a0Furoku membership (the most awesome of awesomest groups ever) which gives me the mental and financial buffer that powers me\u00a0through…well, I shudder to think what I would be doing. Most likely flipping burgers. No shame in that, sure, but oh, the grease stains! “It’s not luck anymore, is it?” a good friend asked me when I told her the joyous book news. I don’t know — I still think lady luck and timing have\u00a0significant parts\u00a0to play, but I do hope that I’ve become a little more assertive and persistent\u00a0compared to my past self. I started this blog on July 16, 2012, almost exactly four years ago. As I published that first post, I told myself that I would do everything that felt right and would stay open-minded. Sometimes, the things I did troubled and puzzled the people around me, particularly those closest to me. Sometimes, I felt alone and very lost and a bit coo coo for cocoa puffs. Sometimes, I couldn’t believe I got to live this remarkable life. And that last part…those moments are increasing slowly, slowly, slowly. Whew. It’s been an eventful year already! I hope you’ll be patient with me as I figure out how to juggle the multiple projects I have going on in the background, and I am yearning for some extended sewing time, but I’m doing little bits when I can. I look forward to sharing some sewing\u00a0with you eventually. The purple bouquet at the very top was actually a gift from a friend at\u00a0the Sewing Happiness launch party, but it made me think of the cover of Little Kunoichi —\u00a0I was looking at the various meanings ascribed to the purple hue, and the ones that jumped out at me were: creativity, mystery and magic. Yep. It all feels like mysterious creative magic to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-book","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15417"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15434,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15417\/revisions\/15434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}