After a several month hiatus, I’m happy to be blogging again, this time about a fun project I had the pleasure to work on earlier this year.
Sometime in the spring, my husband Robert, who if you’ve read the posts on my other blog you’ll know was Justin Bieber’s tour photographer, was contacted by the father of a a girl named Ellie Wessinger, a huge Bieber fan. Ellie and her best friend Lizzie Halper, both of whom had caught “Bieber Fever”, started writing a book about their idol. They wanted to self-publish and needed good pictures to go along with the text. After getting approval from Bieber’s team, Robert agreed to have his photos be a big part of the book and I was brought into the project as the designer.
The process of writing, proof-reading, picking 100+ photos (out of thousands from Robert’s archives) and designing the book took several months. By late summer we received the first color proofs and after a few weeks of revisions we were excited to have everything ready for the printer. Last month we were finally able to hold the first copies in our hands and couldn’t believe how amazing the final product looked!
The book, entitled “Got Bieber Fever?” and available on Amazon, makes for a fun read, describing the six stages of “Bieber Fever”, while giving some information that every Belieber should know about. It also includes letters from other fans, compatibility quizzes, and the dust jacket unfolds into a giant poster! I’m sure fans will love it.
For those interested, you’ll be happy to know that all the proceeds go to Pencils of Promise, a non-profit organization that builds schools in the developing world. Money raised just from the first print run alone will build TWO schools!
You can get more details about the story behind this book by downloading the press release or reading the article in the San Francisco Chronicle.
