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Trucks by Samantha Arvamos, illustrated by Ryan O'Rourke.

And since the Buddymen also like trains, which are a kind of vehicle, my best pop-up noisy train book by DK Publishing was a hit with him.

Not so much with us, but ultimately,

definitely

And occasionally I get asked to be involved with different media productions.

So I've worked an awful lot with Dorling Kindersley, which I think are US-based publishers who do lots of books for kids.

And I do...

TV stuff with a whole variety of channels and media companies around the world, either as an expert standing back with the crew just as a consultant or as someone on camera demonstrating some of those skills or talking about them or just archaeology.

Yeah, I couldn't publish a book about Antarctica with anyone else.

But, yeah, so it's an imprint of theirs called DK Books that really focus on picture books with text.

So it's kind of half picture, half memoir because a lot of my audience know me from picture-based platforms like Instagram and whatnot.

So, yeah, basically anywhere you can just search for The Antarcticans by Matty Jordan and it will pop up.

Wow.

We did a gig with Dorling Kindersley, we were the client, the publisher.

And we were doing a web chat.

So we owned a portal called Web Chats TV.

But through our publisher, so basically the steps were that a storyboard was shared or some rough sketches were shared, first of all, and then a storyboard so I could see what Jasmine was thinking before she got too much into the details of it.

And there was some back and forth there with our publisher who our working sort of editor slash publisher was Anushka Jones, who's since left DK Books.

But Anushka was really key in sort of ping-ponging feedback between us and also having some input as well.

So it did feel like a team effort, even though we were working between...

And Star Wars A Celebration.

This was first announced at San Diego Comic-Con, but the DK book by Pablo Hidalgo.

contains interviews by Anthony Bresnikan and will chronicle the first 50 years of the Star Wars franchise so once again it's a another 50th anniversary book but this one's from DK not Abram so I don't know what kind of different content is going to be in there you know but I expect it'll be probably very different from the Abrams publishing book but you know as we come to suspect expect from DK books there's usually a lot of photos in in those books you know because they're the ones that do the visual dictionaries so uh that's going to be kind of interesting as well a special target edition was announced if if you have target in your country which i can only think of one uh lol um the uh star wars a new hope the shooting script uh so they're going to be publishing the script that was used to shoot the film in a nice collector's edition book uh which is going to be kind of interesting they got one of the original posters kind of slapped on the front there and and uh looks pretty cool it's like the classic poster with you know luke with just like that ripped chest like holding the lightsaber yeah yeah

the original uh new hope release

yeah yeah exactly yeah yeah the classic one so uh so it's got that on the cover it's you know it looks like it might be like got some fabric on the cover or something i don't know it's it looks it looks pretty nice but uh yeah if you're into that if you're into that kind of thing um a new hope visual archive this is the first time in a while that i think we've had a sort of visual dictionary uh thing you know being published for but one of the older films because you know i growing up i think you know you and i both like are very uh acquainted with the the dk visual dictionaries right like for those for the prequels and you know for the um

So then...

The opportunity came along with DK Books and Penguin Random House to do this kid's book about grit.

And they met with my booking agent.

They connected with my booking agency to kind of does my marketing for my speaking and my back office invoice and all of that.