It isn’t every day that a Nomad writes a book!  We are so excited to celebrate the official book launch of one of our members, Matthew Amster-Burton: Hungry Monkey: A Food-Loving Father’s Quest to Raise an Adventurous Eater.  So great!  If you get a chance, please check out his book – I got leafed through it today and it looks awesome.  If you don’t believe me, there are plenty of reviews on his website, including the following:

“Since becoming the proud father of a little girl, I’ve found myself quickly morphing into Bill Cosby–minus the sweaters. One of my greatest fears is imagining my daughter insisting on nothing but crustless grilled cheese sandwiches and “chicken” McNuggets. Hungry Monkey goes a long way to allaying that concern. I finished the last page and immediately set about making her Thai Shrimp Curry. A very timely and excellent book.”
–Anthony Bourdain, author of Kitchen Confidential

In addition, Matthew is hosting a book launch event at Capitol Hill’s Baily Coy books – you should head there and support him if you can!

Hungry Monkey Booksigning Event
Bailey Coy Books
Thursday, May 14, 7pm

Congrats, Matthew!

Eager readers line up to buy Michelle's most recent book - "My So-Called Freelance Life."

A belated thanks to all of you who came out for the Fall Open House – what a great time we had!  Michelle Goodman brought an excellent addition to our seasonal open house, reading excerpts and answering questions about her book – “My So-Called Freelance Life.” A big crowd of budding freelancers came to soak up the event and to hear some of her helpful hints in person.  Congratulations to Michelle on another great book for the freelancing world!

Another big thanks goes out to Michelle Bates, our fall artist on display!  Come by the office anytime to take a look at two of Michelle’s gorgeous photo series.  They are providing a great new atmosphere in the space and we are feeling very lucky to have such great work up on the walls.

Kelly shows ON some love.

I’m wishing I had taken more photos throughout the evening, but I was much too busy having a great time!  If anyone else has photos from the evening, feel free to add them to the Office Nomads Flickr pool for us – we’d be glad to see more shots from the great night!

PS -Keep your calendar’s free on Tuesday, January 13 for the ON Winter Open House, which will be combined with the neighborhood Seattle Greendrinks!  That’s right, folks.  We’re in the pre-planning stages for right now, but Pizza Fusion and Sustainable Capitol Hill are teaming with Office Nomads to present a Greendrinks event for the Capitol Hill neighborhood.  Should be excellent fun, so save the date now!