288 pages, 850 of the best FMLs, all in all, it's a really great book and you’re going to love it.
In it, we reveal the six viruses that are responsible for all FMLs! All the stories are classified by themes... not only is it funny, but it's now also the biggest 'shit happens' laboratory on earth:
1. Moments of shame
Surviving embarrassment, thanks to self-mockery
2. It’s just not fair!
You didn't ask for it, but you got it anyway
3. You shouldn't have even bothered...
You made your bed, now sleep in it
4. Shit out of luck
In the wrong place at the wrong time
5. Rock Bottom
Just when you thought you'd hit a new law
6. The banes of our existence
When all that's wrong with the world is condensed into one person.
Buy it now! (That’s what Ryan said*) - approx $12
There’s also the Personalized Edition ($21.95 - slightly more expensive, but a great gift idea!).
* Ryan is our publisher
You can purchase it in any good bookstore!
It’s yellow, it bends, and you can take it anywhere to make people laugh. For about 10$ you can become a hero (and if you don’t buy it, we’ll kick a young red panda’s face off). It contains a selection of the best stories taken from the website. As a bonus, it’s filled with some great never before seen illustrations.
Here are the links to the online retailers:
For non U.S residents, go to the version of Amazon attributed to your country and search for "f my life" (the spaces are important). If Amazon doesn't exist in your country, they do international deliveries!
Don't forget, this panda is watching you.
Good day to all you lovely people! We hope you had a great week, and if not, we hope you sent us your FML! We are all very excited because something amazing is going to happen on the 9th of June. As you may or may not know, Fmylife is releasing a book! And besides the Bible, what's a book without illustrations? Not much, and that's why you'll see in the Fmylife book some never-seen-before illustrations created especially by Marie Levesque, also known as Missbean,
who is honoring us with her presence today !
Missbean is 26, she’s an illustrator from Paris, France. Two years ago, after 3 years studying architecture in Paris, she decided to stop everything to apply herself full time to drawing. She started her own website, helped by her boyfriend Florent, who's not only helping her with the technical stuff, but who's also now her muse. That's right, "Ma vie à deux", meaning "Me and my relationship" in French, is an autobiographical website, mainly based on her love-life, which pretty quickly gained some popularity.
In September of 2008, this young artist was published for the first time on Viedemerde.fr, the French version of Fmylife.com. Of course, she had no idea this adventure would still be ongoing six months after that, at 3700 miles from her hometown! In New-York, March 2009, in the headquarters of Random House, a finger points at a file titled "Missbean". This finger belongs to Ryan Doherty, the editor in charge of the project. He just selected Missbean to be the illustrator of the FML book, out of three other potential artists.
"As soon as the FML crew mentioned the idea of illustrating the book, I replied 'Yes, yes, yes!' I was very excited about this idea! It was great news to hear that I'd been the one that Ryan chose!"
And the die is cast! A few weeks later, she received a copy of the FML book, and started reading it immediately. Her job was then to select some stories and illustrate them.
"At first, it was very hard for me to choose. All these stories were so funny, my boyfriend and I were laughing day and night. But I had to make a choice, so I picked my favorite stories and started illustrating them pretty quickly.”
Marie has had the opportunity to illustrate for both the FML and VDM websites. We asked her whether she saw a difference between the English and French stories.
“Well, by reading the book I noticed that the FML stories were more extreme than the VDM ones, the people on FML are not afraid to talk about weird situations and I absolutely love the way they talk about them, the way they play with words is fascinating."
And so Missbean set about creating her illustrations. Don't be fooled by her falsely naive drawing style, the subjects that she's dealing with are definitely not childish. In fact, one of her next projects is a book about ecology, which will be released in September of 2009. She's proud of this project because it's a theme she particularly cares about, in fact, tired of being in a big polluted city, she's going to move with her boyfriend and her two cats to live in the countryside, far away from noise, exhaust fumes and stress.
One last question for Missbean: why did she choose this particular FML?
"I chose this one because it made me laugh! That's it... what, do you need another reason? "
Actually we don't! That's a pretty good reason! Thank you Missbean for today's illustration and for all the book's illustrations!
Don't forget to check her website: http://www.leszillusdemissbean.com/
Okay people, concentration needed here. We know it's a been a tough time due to Adam not making it to the top, but life still goes on, so stop voting to save him, it's useless now. But if you really need to move your fingers, and if you want to be our next published artist, you can send an email right now to alice@fmylife.com !
You’re probably scratching your head and wondering why you should get this book? Good question. You should definitely get it because:
288 pages, 850 of the best FMLs, all in all, it's a really great book and you’re going to love it (and if you can think of any other reasons to purchase it, feel free to make suggestions in the comments section below).
Here are the links to the online retailers:
*UPDATE* For non U.S residents, go to the version of Amazon attributed to your country and search for "f my life" (the spaces are important). If Amazon doesn't exist in your country, they do international deliveries!
There's now several hundred thousands of you lovely people enjoying the FMLs from our website, whether viewed on your phone, on your home computer, with (or without) your boss, your friends, your spouses or even your pets. Is that enough for you guys? Not for us. The stories that we've received and published on the website will soon be put through another special filter that our team has cooked up, creating a collection of the finest FMLs. These greatest hits will then be edited into book form, which will cleverly be entitled "fmylife" (yes, we really went on a long mental journey to come up with the title). This means that you'll be able to read the best FMLs on the can, on the beach, during power cuts, or even share them with your grandmother who still can't tell the difference between a computer and a microwave.
We have decided to go with Random House Publishing Group who will take care of publishing the book, and we'd especially like to thank Ryan Doherty for his impassioned involvement in this venture. If all goes well, this summer will be all about fmylife, and further details will be given out at a later date.
As well as this amazing project, we're working hard at making the website even better, and soon we'll be implementing an internal messaging system so you can talk to other members, we'll be launching a newsletter, as well as a list of new applications created by a great bunch of developers, and finally, we'll start listing our most active moderators. But don't worry, we won't be changing the website in any way, these embellishments are only aimed at making fmylife even more fun to use.
Oh, and one last thing...
Say hello to our new logo!
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