PIGPENCIL by Sandy Wood & Kara Kovalchik http://pigpencil.com/blog the Web presence of Kara Kovalchik and Sandy Wood, writers and trivia gurus for mental_floss, Tidbits, and much more Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:35:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 en Fun FAQs for the digital crowd http://pigpencil.com/blog/2008/08/03/fun-faqs-for-the-digital-crowd/ http://pigpencil.com/blog/2008/08/03/fun-faqs-for-the-digital-crowd/#comments Sun, 03 Aug 2008 13:38:47 +0000 Sandy our books http://pigpencil.com/blog/2008/08/03/fun-faqs-for-the-digital-crowd/ We thought it was innovative when Broadway Books chose to publish our first book, The Snapple Aptitude Test, as both a paperback and in Adobe e-book format. My, how things have changed in a few years. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Fun FAQs is available from the publisher in no less than three digital formats: Adobe Reader , eReader, and Microsoft Reader. No Kindle edition as of yet, but feel free to ask for one. Maybe they just need some prompting!

Kindle edition of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Fun FAQs now available!

]]> http://pigpencil.com/blog/2008/08/03/fun-faqs-for-the-digital-crowd/feed/ Just the FAQs, Ma’am http://pigpencil.com/blog/2008/04/25/just-the-faqs-maam/ http://pigpencil.com/blog/2008/04/25/just-the-faqs-maam/#comments Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:19:47 +0000 Sandy our books http://pigpencil.com/blog/2008/04/25/just-the-faqs-maam/ funfaqs.jpgOur newest book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Fun FAQs, should appear in stores in early May. Inside, you’ll find more than 1,000 entertaining questions and answers about varying subjects from baseball to Beethoven to bananas. This is our fourth book in the past two years and our third offering for Alpha Books, who also published our gift hardcovers The Pocket Idiot’s Guide to Not So Useless Knowledge and The Pocket Idiot’s Guide to More Not So Useless Knowledge.

Click here to get 5 percent off Amazon’s already low price if you order it before the release date of May 6. Thanks!

]]> http://pigpencil.com/blog/2008/04/25/just-the-faqs-maam/feed/ Wendy Kaufman, “The Snapple Lady” http://pigpencil.com/blog/2008/01/31/wendy-kaufman-the-snapple-lady/ http://pigpencil.com/blog/2008/01/31/wendy-kaufman-the-snapple-lady/#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:28:14 +0000 Sandy our books http://pigpencil.com/blog/2008/01/31/wendy-kaufman-the-snapple-lady/ Wendy Kaufman, The Snapple LadyAccording to at least one fan mail/autograph hound board, Wendy Kaufman (known as “The Snapple Lady” to those who remember the TV spots) has offered our book, The Snapple Aptitude Test, as a gift to some who have written her:

http://www.fanmail.biz/mboard/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=84014

Snapple had planned to do much more promotion with the book upon its initial release, but had a change in command between the planning of the book and its actual execution. It’s nice to see that they’re still finding ways to employ it, however.
Neat… we’ll have to send her a copy and ask her to sign it for us!

]]> http://pigpencil.com/blog/2008/01/31/wendy-kaufman-the-snapple-lady/feed/ Broadway Books: The Snapple Aptitude Test http://pigpencil.com/blog/2006/06/01/broadway-books-the-snapple-aptitude-test/ http://pigpencil.com/blog/2006/06/01/broadway-books-the-snapple-aptitude-test/#comments Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:10:33 +0000 Sandy our books http://pigpencil.com/blog/2006/06/01/broadway-books-the-snapple-aptitude-test/ Here’s the Random House description page for The Snapple Aptitude Test.

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