{"id":17888,"date":"2014-02-21T07:36:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T15:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=17888"},"modified":"2014-02-24T12:18:39","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T20:18:39","slug":"a-book-5-years-a-give-away-a-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/21\/a-book-5-years-a-give-away-a-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"a book, 5 years, a give-away &#038; a challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you all soooooo much for entering! The winner of today&#8217;s give-away is <strong>Erin Candela! <\/strong>I&#8217;ll pop it in the mail tomorrow, Erin!<\/p>\n<p>But wait&#8230; I have to give more away, right?! Right! Stay tuned, as more give-aways are coming in the next month or two {ps. thank you for all of your support, lovely comments, and mostly, for actually wanting this book! I am totally and completely overwhelmed xo}<\/p>\n<p><em>ps. A few of you asked how to get a copy if you don&#8217;t live in North America&#8230; it will be on shelves world-wide, but if you can&#8217;t find it in your area, you can also buy it through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1452118884\/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d7_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=center-2&amp;pf_rd_r=0GFMHYME98SQS9A3APBK&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=1688200382&amp;pf_rd_i=507846\" target=\"_blank\">amazon.com<\/a> or through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chroniclebooks.com\/new-releases\/creative-block.html\" target=\"_blank\">chroniclebooks.com<\/a> : )<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/cb_givewaypost.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17891\" title=\"cb_givewaypost\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/cb_givewaypost.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"3116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/cb_givewaypost.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/cb_givewaypost-56x300.jpg 56w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A BOOK:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Boy oh boy, I love these artists so much! Gorgeous work, and such funny, smart, touching advice&#8230; I can&#8217;t believe that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chroniclebooks.com\/titles\/creative-block.html\" target=\"_blank\">CREATIVE BLOCK<\/a> is finally out in the world. Thank you so much to everyone that made it happen, and thank you so much to everyone who plans on reading it! xo <em>{and a big thank you to <a href=\"http:\/\/lesliefandrich.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Leslie Fandrich<\/a> for these gorgeous photos!!!}<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>5 YEARS &amp; A GIVE-AWAY:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So, tomorrow, February 22, will mark <em>five years<\/em> since I wrote my very first post on The Jealous Curator. It also just so happens that my very first book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chroniclebooks.com\/titles\/creative-block.html\" target=\"_blank\">CREATIVE BLOCK<\/a>, hit shelves all over the world this past Tuesday&#8230; needless to say, it&#8217;s been quite a week over here! And so we have to celebrate, right? How about a give-away!?<strong> Leave a comment on this post, and on Monday at noon (PST) I&#8217;ll draw one name and send that person a signed copy of the book. <\/strong>Deal?<\/p>\n<p><strong>A CHALLENGE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard from quite a few people that they plan to go one by one through the creative &#8220;unblock&#8221; projects given by each of the 50 artists in the book. So fun! If you do one, snap photo of whatever you make, pop it up on twitter or instagram and hashtag it with <strong>#creativeUNblock<\/strong> &#8230; I&#8217;m going to keep an eye out for them, and then I&#8217;ll set up a Facebook album to share some of my favorites from each month. I can&#8217;t wait to see what you make!<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #33cccc;\">ps. BOOK EVENTS:<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">I&#8217;ll be in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/14\/san-francisco-march-5th-2014\/\" target=\"_self\">San Francisco on March 5<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/26\/los-angeles-march-22nd-2014\/\" target=\"_self\">LA on March 22<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/creative-block-nyc-book-launch-tickets-10642316455\" target=\"_blank\">NYC on April 2<\/a> {links on the left sidebar}.\u00a0The book will be available to buy in SF and LA because the events are at stores, but the event in New York is not at a bookstore, and is limited to 100 people so we&#8217;re selling tickets to it&#8230;<\/span><a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/creative-block-nyc-book-launch-tickets-10642316455\" target=\"_blank\"> right here<\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> {the ticket is $25 and gets you a book, drinks, snacks, and a super fun evening!}. More info coming soon on the May 15 Vancouver event.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you all soooooo much for entering! The winner of today&#8217;s give-away is Erin Candela! I&#8217;ll pop it in the mail tomorrow, Erin! But wait&#8230; I have to give more away, right?! Right! Stay tuned, as more give-aways are coming in the next month or two {ps. thank you for all of your support, lovely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[269,3,8,6,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17888"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17909,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17888\/revisions\/17909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}