When I Grow Up - GalleyCat http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat The First Word On the Book Publishing Industry Copyright 2013 Fri, 24 May 2013 19:15:00 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Weird Al Yankovic On Writing in Verse In celebration of both April Fool’s Day and National Poetry Month, we bring you an interview with Grammy Award-winning parody musician Weird Al Yankovic (pictured, via Seth Olenick).

As we reported, Yankovic’s children’s book (When I Grow Up) recently climbed The New York Times‘ bestseller list. Here are highlights from the interview…

Q: How did you land your book deal?
A: I was approached a few years ago by Anne Hoppe, an editor at HarperCollins. She was a fan of my songwriting, and thought that the wordplay and sensibility displayed in my lyrics suggested that I might be adept at writing children’s books. I readily agreed, having felt the same thing for quite some time.

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]]> Maryann Yin http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/weird-al-yankovic-on-writing-in-rhyme_b26849#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/weird-al-yankovic-on-writing-in-rhyme_b26849 http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/?p=26849 Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:23:21 +0000