(Thanks to Jarern for taking and sharing the image on his blog).

Last week at a publishing industry gathering of the Bookbinders Guild of NY, Personality Not Included and Art Director Anthony Landi were honored for the cover design featuring the crazy rainbow chicken. It is a great validation of some hard work from folks behind the scenes in a publishing group that don’t often get the recognition they deserve for the work that they put into making a book look good and be successful. Congratulations to Anthony and the rest of the McGraw-Hill design team for this much deserved honor! It was great to work with you and glad that the book is getting such great recognition from the industry.

Today marks the official release of the Chinese (Mandarin) version of Personality Not Included. It is now available on Amazon China and will be in Chinese bookstores starting next week. We’ll be doing some media and interviews around the book in the coming weeks so if you happen to be in China, hopefully you’ll hear more about the book soon. This is the first of 5 international versions that will be published over the next few months. The others are Taiwanese, Russian, Spanish and Thai.

Just added to the www.personalitynotincluded.com/bloggingadvice page mentioned in the book is a downloadable PDF excerpted from my blog with tips on how to create a successful blog in the first 90 days. This step by step guide should offer you useful advice on the toughest questions when deciding to start a blog, such as what to write about, how to grow your audience, when to focus on design and lots more. Visit the blogging advice page right now to check out this new piece as well as lots of other content on how to bring your brand’s personality to life through a blog!

DOWNLOAD PDF >> How To Launch A Successful Blog In 90 Days

This weekend I put the finishing touches on the long awaited Reader’s Community for Personality Not Included and just put it live last night. The area has links to the official Facebook Reader’s Group, information for International readers, and a list of stores where you should be able to get a signed copy of PNI. Future features in the area will include the ability to buy PNI anonymously for someone, and even more extended international content. Check out the section at www.personalitynotincluded.com/readers-community and let me know what you think.