I love that the cover is an illustration of the light-up kit project! It’s also very cool that the publisher is using this as an excuse to start their own dad-projects blog, tatageek.cz. Hope we’ll get to meet all sorts of geeky Czech dads!
Finally, some foreign rights love for the newer books! The Russians have purchased rights to publish “The Geek Dad’s Guide to Weekend Fun,” and “The Geek Dad Book for Aspiring Mad Scientists,” on top of the already-in-the-works Russian version of “Geek Dad: Awesomely Geeky Projects and Activities for Dads and Kids to Share.” Spasiba!
Pretty amazing, really! I received news yesterday that a publisher in the Czech Republic has offered (and we accepted) to purchase the rights to publish Geek Dad: Awesomely Geeky Projects and Activities for Dads and Kids to Share. I’m chuffed! This is the 5th non-American language the book is being translated into. Though I do have to worry a bit. A quick Google Translate shows that “Dad” in Czech is “Tata.” Ahem…
Image by Bob Knetzger
The GeekDad Book for Aspiring Mad Scientists hits the shelves today, and I’m doing a radio tour. If you live near one of the stations in the list below, tune in and hear me promote the new book!
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5:45 AM – 6:00 AM |
Salisbury, MD | WOCM/”Rude Awakening | Bulldog | Live | This morning show is centered around listener interaction and features, including contests, giveaways, and celebrity guests. The show guarantees a full plate of topics to discuss. |
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6:05 AM – 6:30 AM |
Charleston -Huntington, WV | WMOV/ “1360 Live” | Greg Gack | Live | General interest morning show. |
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6:35 AM – 6:45 AM |
Chicago, IL | WIND/”Big John and Amy | John and Amy | Live | The show provides listeners with the latest news, weather, sports updates and entertainment reports. The host highlights all the issues affecting Chicago-area listeners, as well as national stories in the news. |
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6:45 AM – 6:55 AM |
Pittsburgh-Indiana,PA | WDAD/”Morning Show” | Todd | Live | A locally produced morning show that features general interest talk, oldies music, news and sports updates, giveaways, and special guests. The show features interviews with local personalities from Indiana County and listener phone-ins for prizes and giveaways. |
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6:55 AM – 7:05 AM |
Johnstown, PA | WKYE/”Morning Magazine” | Rick Shepard | Tape | This morning news show can be heard in central and westernPennsylvania. The interview will air the following day and will be replayed two other times. |
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Cleveland, OH | Wills & Snyder in the Morning | Bill Willis | Tape | Cleveland’s most comprehensive morning program featuring interviews with the newsmakers of the day, and entertaining and informative features on a variety of topics including cyberspace, health, parenting, celebrities, the latest movies, and weird stories. |
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Eugene, OR | KPNW/” Wake Up Call” | Bill Lundin | Live | Morning news talk show. |
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8:25 AM – 8:35 AM |
St. Louis, MO | KTRS-AM/ “The Steve Cochran Show” | Steve Cochran | Live | Midmorning show featuring news, politics, sports, and pop culture. |
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11:20 AM – 11:35 AM |
National | Sirius XM/”Catholics Next Door” | Greg and Jennifer Willits | Live | With a unique mix of real life and the Catholic faith, The Catholics Next Door is about marriage and kids, pop culture and the other funny stuff of everyday living. It’s about the fun side of life, with a generous dose of Catholicism thrown in for good measure. |
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11:40 AM – 11:50 AM |
Cedar Rapids, IA | KMA/”Afternoon Show” | Dean | Live | Is a local news and talk show. This ABC Radio affiliate has a large listener base in Southwest Iowa, Northwest Missouri and Southeast Nebraska. |
I figured it was time for an overall update on the state of the GeekDad books. So much is happening with all three books, sometimes it’s hard to keep things straight. So here, in no particular order, are some tidbits:
More news as it hit the wires. But all-in-all, a very exciting time!
Just a note from the webmaster (who is also the author): I’ve just successfully moved GeekDadBook.com, along with a number of my other domains and sites, consolidating multiple domain hosts and web hosts into just a two-shop setup (hover.com for the domains and fatcow.com for the web hosting). I believe I have earned my web-geek merit badge today. However, some things may still be broken around here, even as I streamline the site. For example, the Twitter widget in the corner is successful about 50% of the time. I’ve also abandoned the forums (no time to monitor them, and both the folks who were going to play admin for me had to move on to other things). All pertinent comments and questions will need to be asked in the comments to the book pages (accessed from the sidebar), or emailed directly to me.
Still, I’m really happy I got this done. W00t!
Yes, it's finally here!
Hey everyone, welcome! Glad you stopped by, and hope you’re happy you received a copy of one or both of the GeekDad books for Father’s Day. I try to keep this book blog relatively up to date about book news. Plus, there are forums here for asking and trading information about the projects. Worse comes to worst, you can email me at the contact address.
If you don’t already, I’ll also welcome you to take a look at GeekDad.com, the site I edit and publish over at Wired. It’s for geeky parents of all kinds. You may also want to see GeekMom.com, for the very same reasons. Cheers!
