You worked on Diary of a Wimpy Kid for several years before taking it to a publisher. It's not so much in the social media platforms On the other side of things, it's really hard for an author to amass a large following of readers without a big social media presence, so you always have to tend that garden as well. You can find your place in the story very easily You can fast forward, rewind, and relive your favorite moments in a way that's a lot easier than anything technology provides. I also think a book is a terrific piece of technology. It's something very tangible that kids can really connect to. We know ostensibly, as parents, that a book is a much better gift than, say, a digital download. Whether it's on the screen or on the page, it's all about the story.īut I also think it's really important to put a physical book into the hands of a kid. The vehicle really wasn't that important to me, it was the storytelling itself. To me, it was very similar to trying to write a book because I was trying to create something that would hopefully reach millions of kids through storytelling. It the time I was writing Diary of a Wimpy Kid, I was working on a website called Poptropica, which was a massive multiplayer game in an online world. How does that all fit together? I live in these two worlds, the digital and the analog world. The first book was originally published in installments on, and your latest book launch included a big social media component. So you own an independent bookstore and your Diary of a Wimpy Kid books have sold more than 200 million copies and been translated into 61 languages. The latest installment of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball', is available starting November 5. We get the world's best authors to come to our town. I think the bookstore has been a real beacon for the community and the region. I've gotten to visit hundreds of bookstores around the world, so I was really able to take the best of what I'd seen and experienced on my travels and apply it to this store we built. We were just looking for something that would serve the whole community. So, it really had nothing to do with the fact I am an author. My wife and I decided a bookstore was the best fit. The next step was to decide what to fill it with. The first step was to build a really nice building that represented the town well. We took it over, took it down, and built it back up, mostly out of old wood that we sourced from other places. We bought the building, first built in 1856, so it had gone through quite a bit of wear and tear. We built it from the ground up about four years ago. It served as a symbol of the town and it wasn't a good look. The old store that sat in the middle was really a rotting husk from a bygone era. I live in a little town called Plainville, Massachusetts. I think it was civic pride that inspired us to do it. But you and your wife also own a bookstore, An Unlikely Story. You’re a best-selling author setting out on tour for your latest book. Here, Kinney tells SLM about his early years as an author and how he spends his time when he’s not writing, drawing, or meeting fans around the world. Both solo and family tickets include a copy of the book, a pre-personalized bookplate signed by Kinney, and a photo with the author. Family tickets are $30 and include an entry for two. on November 12 to give fans a chance to build their own cartoons, “ destroy the trivia competition, manufacture some dance moves, and collapse with laughter.” Solo tickets are $20. Kinney’s Wrecking Ball Show stops at UMSL’s Touhill Performing Arts Center at 7 p.m. Now, more than a decade after middle-schooler Greg Heffley’s first “diary” was published in print, Kinney's releasing its 14th installment, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball, on November 5. Author and cartoonist Jeff Kinney worked on a draft of Diary of a Wimpy Kid for nearly eight years before showing the story to a publisher.
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