Jerrold, you’ve made FIVE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FOUR donuts, what could you possibly have left to do?

Besides the packaging and the shipping, there’s this:

It’s the Dozen Days o’ Donuts Book Release Extravaganza! The book is finished and I want to celebrate. Over the next couple of weeks I’ll be uploading a series of “making of Donuts For Everybody” posts in acknowledgement of all the work that went into this mighty tome. Topics to be covered:

August 21 Guest Authors Part 1

August 23 How to Shenanigan

August 25 Guest Authors Part 2

August 28 On Revisions

August 29 Alligator What Now?

August 30 Foreword by…

August 31 Guest Authors Part 3

September 5 Blurb-arama

September 6 Hard Headed/Soft Hearted

September 7 Cover Reveal

September 8 BOOK LAUNCH!

There’s a lot here—some of it is fun and games, some of it is process talk, a lot of it is a celebration of community. If you want to immerse yourself fully in the story of this book’s making, you can purchase a copy here. It’ll also be available as a pay what you want pdf download.

But anyway, yeah, 584 donuts. Here’s what 144 of them look like when you put them side by side by side by side by…

Hey hey!

Did I tell you I have a book coming out? I have a book coming out. Look! ~~~

It’s my DONUTS FOR EVERYBODY art book, a 144 page celebration of children’s book illustration, community, goodwill, and, of course, DONUTS. It’s at the printer’s AS I TYPE and I’m looking forward to releasing the book in a few short weeks.

Before the book goes live, though, I thought it’d be fun to celebrate the project’s completion with a series of posts dedicated to the entire DONUTS FOR EVERYBODY project. Let’s start with that old chestnut, guess the number of jellybeans in the jar.

Except in this case it’s guess how many donuts I managed to cram into my 144 page book. I can give you some information. There’s about a million fewer than you’ll find in WHO NEEDS DONUTS? by Mark Alan Stamaty.

And maybe a thousand fewer than you’ll find in THE DONUT CHEF by Bob Staake.

Need some more clues? Well, those of you who followed the project will remember I did four donuts days over on Twitter with a dozen and a half donuts per day. There was the Twelve Days of Donuts in December, plus the 144 donuts I made on a livestream back in January.

Some pages hold more than one donut, though. The Strega Nona page, for example, holds six dozen.

Add to this the fact that I can get carried away in creative projects and the knowledge that I had an absolute blast putting this book together.

I think this should get you in the ballpark. Make a guess in the comments below! Closest without going over gets a virtual donut and my warmest regards.

Yours as always,

Jerrold