Introducing SoCrazySoTrue.com
The Crazy True Fun Is Coming Soon!
SoCrazySoTrue.com is going to launch with our first crazy true story on Tuesday, July 5th and while I won’t reveal too many details yet, we’ve got stories about fire alarms in Vegas strip clubs, girls wooing guys by sending them dead animals through the mail, and adventures in hotel sex parties headed your way in our debut week.
How’s that for a teaser?
While you anxiously await this site’s launch, I hope you’ll take a moment to read what So Crazy So True is going to be all about, to “Like” our new Facebook page, to join our mailing list through the form on the side of this page, and/or to submit your own crazy true story for inclusion on our site.
Thanks, and I’ll see you Tuesday!
How A Funny Kids Book Became A Bestseller Before It Was Even Released
Something remarkable happened today. A children’s book hit the No. 1 spot on Amazon.com’s best-seller list. And it did so a month before the book is even slated for release.
You may have heard of the book—it’s a best-seller after all. Go the Fuck to Sleep by Adam Mansbach, began its life as a joke Facebook post in June. It was a particularly trying instance of bedtime with his 2-year-old daughter, and Mansbach let off some steam in the form of a humorous status update to his friends: “Look out for my forthcoming children’s book, ‘Go the — to Sleep.’ “
The response from his friends was so fierce that Mansbach decided to make his joke book a real one. Go the Fuck to Sleep, which he bills as a “children’s book for adults,” will hit stores on June 14, published by the Brooklyn press Akashic. If it’s not even due for a month, though, how did a little 32-page book already snag a film option deal with Fox 2000 and, today, reach the pinnacle of online publishing commerce world?
