The debut novel from How I Met Your Mother co-creator (and How We Made Your Mother co-host), Craig Thomas
From the Emmy-nominated co-creator and Executive Producer of How I Met Your Mother, Craig Thomas, comes a a smart, funny, bighearted debut novel that follows a family turned upside down after Hollywood decides to make a movie version of their lives. In THAT’S NOT HOW IT HAPPENED – told through the shifting perspectives of Paige, Rob, Emmett, and Darcy – a flawed, funny, complicated family is forced to confront past wounds and present betrayals, as they barrel headlong toward a bizarre existential question: Will this “feel-good” movie bring them together or tear them apart?
The novel draws from Craig’s personal experience as the father of a young adult son with Jacobsen syndrome, a chromosomal disorder that, like Down syndrome, involves lifelong health and developmental challenges. He says, “I hope this novel will get people thinking and talking about how we think and talk about disability; about how our stories get told (and who gets to tell them); and about how love stories can come in many different shapes and sizes.”
A Flashback Podcast
for a
Flashback Show
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, a groundbreaking sitcom that ran for 208 episodes on CBS from 2005-2014, unfolds entirely as a flashback, using a time-bending narrative structure that spotlights the lives of five friends navigating love, friendship, dating, careers, failure, and success in New York City.
The show has remained vibrantly alive in our collective pop culture memory, with fans around the world still sharing stories of how HIMYM is not just a hilarious comedy but also medicine for the soul in hard times.
Now, JOSH RADNOR (who played “Ted Mosby”) has teamed up with series co-creator CRAIG THOMAS to explore, episode-by-episode, the mystery at the heart of what has made this show so durable and beloved. It’s time – much like the older, wiser narrator Ted does in the show – to look back on this adventure that occupied a pivotal decade of their lives: how the show changed them, how it changed its fans, and how it changed the culture.
With plenty of special guests joining us along the way, this podcast will use HIMYM’s trenchant themes as jumping-off points for larger discussions about life, loss, and love.
This is HOW WE MADE YOUR MOTHER: A flashback podcast for a flashback show.