Baby Signs for Everybody

David Boles and Janna Sweenie were approached by Wiley to write a Dummies book for Baby Signs. Boles and Sweenie are generally against writing "Stupid Books" but thought they would give the series a try if they could quickly come to terms with Wiley. After weeks of back-and-forth with no contractual end in sight, and on their agent's recommendation, the authors created this revised Baby Signs pitch -- Baby Signs for Everybody -- for a different publisher and then realized the Baby Signing fad had finished. You may read the whole revised pitch by clicking the page image below.

Baby Signs for Everybody

Book Pitches

American Sign Language Berlitz Phrase Book (1/25/10)
Field Guide to Urine (9/4/2005)
Medical American Sign Language Point and Say Phrase Book (3/3/06)
Online Research Methods: A Steps Guide for the Everyday Student (2/10/06)
Computers for Poets: A Technical Guide for Left-Brain Learners (1995-09)
Medical Humanities Reader (2006)
Creating Aristotelian Irrevocable Change in Tourists Touching Down at Newark Liberty International Airport (2005)
Google Page Creator: Visual QuickStart Guide (2/27/06)
Baby Signs for Everybody (2003-06)
TypePad for Professional and Personal Blogging (2005)
Safer Surfing: Protecting Your Privacy and Securing Your Safety on the Internet (1996)
WebCT Campus Edition 6 for Dummies (8/5/05)
Do-It-Yourself Office Life Essential Projects: CNET's 24 Cool Things You Didn't Know You Could Do! (5/5/06)
Protocols, Packets & Peering: A Windows InterNetworking Primer (1995)
How to Do Everything with Google Tools (2006)
Blogger for Dummies (2005)
Weaving the Web with JavaScript (1995)
Dreamweaver: The Pitch (1997)
Baby Street Signs: Raising a Street Smart Baby Signer (1/31/06)
The Webmaster's Workbook for Freehand Graphics Studio 7 (1997)
Publish & Prosper on the Web: How to Create, Manage & Operate Your Own Online Magazine (1995)
Blackboard for Dummies (2005)
Scholarship in the Mainstream Marketplace: How an M.F.A. Shines a Scholarly Life Beyond the University (2002)

Wild Work

Beneath a Single Sky (2/21/00)
United Stage Manifesto (10/17/89)
New Band Wagon (4/24/91)
Silent Conspiracy (1993)
Alive Online! (1996)
Fonda's Vanishing Wish (1/6/94)
Jokes (6/15/91)
Child in All of Us (3/9/89)
Top Ten Canceled Celebrity Footwear Contracts (6/15/91)
Thundering Tra-La-Las (1/27/84)
McDugan's Barn (3/22/84)
Smile and a Shoeshine (1986)
Round Hook, Nebraska (1986)
Mysterious Rusty Zipper (?)
David Boles Blogs (1990-Now)
David Boles Books Writing & Publishing (1987-Now)
Script Professor (1983-Now)
Hardcore ASL (1988-Now)
SOS ASL (1991-Now)