Huge thanks to Grace Hagen and Melissa Oppenheimer for guiding this huge project to completion, for your excellent art direction on the cover, and for somehow printing and delivering thousands of copies to hundreds of stores in record time.
This is so cool—a children's book I illustrated has been turned into a musical!
"The Right Thing to Do: The Joe Mauer Story" will premiere this Friday at @stagestheatre.bsky.social in Hopkins, MN.
Author: Joe Schmit
Publisher: Wise Ink
Book & Music: Michael Mahler
Director: Sandy Boren-Barrett
And here is the big fold-out interior map...
Visit your friendly neighborhood indie bookstore to grab a free copy. If you live in IA, MN, WI, IL, ND, SD, MO, KS, NE, or MI there's bound to be one close by.
Indie Bookstore Day arrives in TEN DAYS!
Here's my cover for the new Midwest Indie Bookstore Roadmap from @midwestbooksellers.bsky.social
When we made the first map back in 2018 I think we had like 150 stores, and this year we're creeping on 370. That's absolutely bonkers. No one expects you to visit all 370 in one day, but please try for at least 200.
This is the BEST annual guide to Indie Bookstore Day events in the Twin Cities and across greater MN. Bookmark it, share it, and have fun tomorrow!
#IndependentBookstoreDay
Kevin Cannon
If you want to plan your day and don't have a map yet, go to MIBA's website (www.midwestbooksellers.org/find-a-bookstore) where they have a handy interactive and searchable map.
Happy bookstore hopping on April 25!
Last year I spent IBD signing maps and puzzles in Madison, WI, but this year I think I'll be just be floating around the Twin Cities with my family. I'm a Hopkins guy, so the first stop will of course be @creamandamber.bsky.social, but after that we'll probably just let our 7 yr old take the reigns.
Kevin Cannon
I did another book, with @zandercannon.bsky.social and @kevincannon.bsky.social, about the first time(s) we went to the moon. Apollo 8 — Artemis II's proud parent — is a focus of "T-Minus", because people looking at Earth from space is always beautiful.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/T-Minu...
