Odette Marchetti

Mar 24

ODETTE CALLED. writing fast.

Pilcrow & Pine is doing a PICTURE BOOK, their second ever, and she wants me to illustrate it. whole thing. 32 pages. - title: Grandfather Heron Counts the Ice. author Liesl Aamodt, retired teacher from up north, first book - it's about a girl and her grandfather who watch a lake every spring for the day the ice goes o…

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Mar 24

Odette called at eleven this morning. I was at the desk doing nothing, moving a…

…pencil around. Pilcrow & Pine wants me to illustrate a picture book. a whole one. thirty-two pages. it's called Grandfather Heron Counts the Ice. I made her say the title twice. it's about a girl and her grandfather waiting every spring for the ice to go off a lake, and he writes the date in a notebook every year,…

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Mar 25

Pilcrow book contract, w/ Sam's list. questions for Odette:

1. originals: says I keep them. good. there are no originals, it's digital + ink scans. do they want the ink sheets? (no, mine) 2. royalty only starts after 4,000 copies. is 4,000 the first printing? (yes) 3. kill fee is there, 50% of the stage we're in. ok 4. "final art due november 20, 2026": is that all spreads or…

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Mar 26

Loomfish paid. 4:31 this afternoon, on the deadline I gave, to the minute almos…

…t, like he'd set an alarm. eighteen hundred dollars. no message. I was at the shop with my hands in a bottom bracket and my phone buzzed on the bench and I saw the number on the lock screen. Lu saw my face and said "fish guy?" and I nodded and she rang the bell we ring for a bike sale. forty-one days late. I'm not…

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Mar 28

signed it. ten o'clock this morning, at Pilcrow's office in St Paul, third floo…

…r, at a table with a jar of pencils on it. Odette signed after me. she said "welcome to books" and gave me my copy in a folder and a cup of very bad coffee. Walt gave me the morning. I got to the shop at one and Ines had written on the repair board, in the customer column, "THEO — picture book — due nov 20 — no rush…

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Mar 31

last day of march. I want to write this one down whole, because I know I'll rou…

…nd it off later into "that rough month before the book." on the first I had 212 dollars and a list. the list said: if one man pays me, I'm fine. on the third the car died, and it wasn't the battery, it was the alternator, and it was 95 for the tow and 486 for the part. I walked to work in slush. Kettlebird paid 450…

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Apr 9

odette oat no sugar. wanjiru black. hollis tea

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Apr 9

HERON BOOK KICKOFF. thurs 4/9, 1pm, Pilcrow & Pine office, Larkhollow St, 3rd f…

…loor (the elevator is a freight elevator, you pull a rope). in the room: Odette Marchetti (art director), Wanjiru Kamau (editor), Hollis Trent (production, the one who knows what the printer can do). on video from Bemidji: Liesl Aamodt, the author. she's 71, she had the notebook in her hand. THE BOOK - Grandfather H…

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Apr 10

kickoff was yesterday.

Liesl held her father's notebook up to the camera and it's exactly what I'd have drawn if I'd made it up. a pocket notebook with a cloth spine, soft from being in a coat. one line a year in pencil. the pencil gets fainter in the nineties. the last line in his hand is 1998, the year I was born, and it says "April 19. L…

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Apr 20

HERON BOOK thumbnails, version 3, page by page. sending to Odette on the 28th.

p1 title: the notebook, closed, on a windowsill. pencil on a string p3: Ilse at the window in pajamas, back to us. outside is all white 4-5: wide. the whole lake under ice, tiny house left, tamaracks right. two figures walking down, red jacket the only colour 6-7: close on boots on the shore ice, his big, hers small.…

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May 24

they leave tomorrow. mom and dad, in Minneapolis, in my apartment, for the firs…

…t time in the two years I've lived here and the ten I've lived in this city. writing it now while it's all still loud. thursday I picked them up in the car and dad got in the front and looked at the dash for a while and said "no air conditioning" and I said no, and he rolled the window down by hand and put his elbow…

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Jun 22

SKETCHES APPROVED. Odette + Wanjiru + Liesl, on a call, 50 min. sent them 6/11,…

…a day early. changes (one round, this is it): - 10-11, the four panels: keep. Wanjiru thought too clever, Liesl wants them - 14-15: heron and Morfar should be closer to the same size on the page. cheat the perspective - 16-17: the ice sounds. they're cutting the words to three. more dark, less text - 20-21: the heron…

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Jun 23

approved. all of it, with six small changes. the call was yesterday and I waite…

…d a day to write because I wanted to see if I still believed it. Wanjiru wanted to cut the four-panel waiting spread and Liesl, from her kitchen in Bemidji, said "that's exactly what waiting looks like," and that was that. authors can do that, apparently. they can just say a thing and it stays. Liesl wants her fath…

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Aug 9

the colour samples went in on the 31st and Odette wrote back on the 4th. four w…

…ords. "This is the book." I'd done the heron arriving and the ice going out. the arriving one came easily. the ice one I did three times. what fixed it was taking colour out, not putting it in. the sheet breaking is nearly white paper and the noise is in the line. so that's the look, locked. twelve more spreads the…

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Aug 15

I've finished all the spreads and I'm carrying them to St Paul on the Trek, rol…

…led up in a tube on my back, over the Lake Street bridge. the tube is getting heavier. I stop in the middle and look in and it's full of water, lake water, with ice in it. a heron is standing on the bridge railing. it says nothing, it's a bird. but it has the look Odette has when she's about to say "invoice me."

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Sep 15

send Odette the four spreads

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Sep 21

for the Finchley application, my half, so I can copy it out

legal name: Theodore Kenji Nakagawa-Reed current landlord: Gail Hedlund, Fourgable Properties, 612-555-0106. here since 6/1/24 EMPLOYER: Crooked Fender Cycles, 2411 E Hollis St, Mpls 55406. bike mechanic, part-time. started 9/14/2021. supervisor Ines Aguilar 612-555-0137, shop line 612-555-0110 pay: 20.50/hr (since ap…

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Sep 27

HERON BOOK, where I am, 8 weeks out (really 6, see wedding)

done + approved as colour samples: 12-13, 20-21 done, not sent: 4-5, 6-7, 8-9, 14-15 inked, no colour: 10-11, 16-17, 18-19, 22-23 pencils only: 24-25, 26-27, 28-29, 30-31 not started: p1, p3, p32, jacket, case, endpapers order: send the four finished ones this week (Odette asked). colour the four inked ones. then 24-2…

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Sep 29

odette wants the four by friday

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Oct 2

sent Odette the four spreads she asked for. she'll take a day or two. I'm not g…

…oing to refresh the mail. I've refreshed it twice. the light's going. it's dark by seven now and the radiators will be on any day; I caught myself listening for the hiss. two years of these now, the octobers. I plan them like a trip, like Renee said. lamp at seven thirty. people on the calendar before I don't want t…

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First name	Odette
Last name	Marchetti
Company	Pilcrow & Pine Press

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