We have lots of good news here at the ol’ studio.  First of all, we hired the wonderful and completely charming Amy Medhurst as our new Director of Licensing and Marketing.  The first time we all met her we felt like she had been here forever.  She fit right in, and since she seemed not at all offended or confused by our comments and jokes and the general mayhem that goes on here on a daily basis, we hired her on the spot. A good thing we did, too, as she has already brought several good things to the table (more on that as soon as we sign on the dotted lines) and she has also raised our visibility in the marketplace.  This is VERY good, since we had actually been asked in the past couple of years if I had died.

The other good news is we have just signed a contract with Papyrus-Recycled Greetings for greeting cards.  I had a wonderful run for many years with Sunrise Greetings, but I felt like it was time to shake things up.   I want to make sure the cards are available absolutely everywhere, and we’ll have that with Papyrus-Recycled starting in spring 2011. In the meantime you’ll still be able to get my cards at Barnes and Noble, Office Max, and at many of your local post offices and stationery stores.

And the rest of the good news is that we just have a lot of great new products coming out– a ton of fun things at Michaels (you have to hurry- this stuff sells out really fast!), the world’s cutest, if I do say so myself, figurines from Bethany Lowe and Katherine’s Collection, and of course the new Fairy Tale book, all coming out this Fall.  Stay tuned for more exciting new developments!  I LOVE new developments!

~Mary