Craig Thomas
@himymcraig.bsky.social
PRE-ORDER MY NOVEL: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/thats-not-how-it-happened-craig-thomas?variant=43708741517346
Co-Creator: How I Met Your Mother #HIMYM.
Prose:
http://Craigthomaswriter.com http://instagram.com/craigtthomas/
Co-Creator: How I Met Your Mother #HIMYM.
Prose:
http://Craigthomaswriter.com http://instagram.com/craigtthomas/
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Craig Thomas
@himymcraig.bsky.social
· Mar 28
Dear world. I’ve written a novel. It’s my favorite thing I’ve ever written, besides HIMYM. It’s a different kind of love story, but just as personal to me. I really hope you’ll preorder: craigthomaswriter.com/novel
Out 11/4 via @harpercollins @htpbooks @hanoversquarepress
Out 11/4 via @harpercollins @htpbooks @hanoversquarepress
I was honored to be on @npr.org's All Things Considered to discuss my debut novel, THAT'S NOT HOW IT HAPPENED. Their mini-review: "The novel blends sharp satire of Hollywood with a deeply personal look at family, marriage, and raising a child with disabilities."
www.npr.org/2025/11/09/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/09/n...
The first novel from Craig Thomas, co-creator of 'How I Met Your Mother,' parallels his life
The novel blends sharp satire of Hollywood with a deeply personal look at family, marriage, and raising a child with disabilities.
www.npr.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I was honored to be on @npr.org's All Things Considered to discuss my debut novel, THAT'S NOT HOW IT HAPPENED. Their mini-review: "The novel blends sharp satire of Hollywood with a deeply personal look at family, marriage, and raising a child with disabilities."
www.npr.org/2025/11/09/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/09/n...
Check out the audiobook for That's Not How It Happened on Spotify! open.spotify.com/show/73N5aMs...
November 7, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Check out the audiobook for That's Not How It Happened on Spotify! open.spotify.com/show/73N5aMs...
Had a great conversation on the Enable podcast about my debut novel, out now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dlr...
"How I Met Your Mother," a rare genetic disorder, and "the cliff" (Enable: The Disability Podcast)
YouTube video by PennLive.com
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November 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Had a great conversation on the Enable podcast about my debut novel, out now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dlr...
Check out this petition to keep HIMYM on Netflix, created by my wonderful co-creator Carter's daughter! www.change.org/p/keep-how-i...
Sign the Petition
Keep "How I Met Your Mother” on Netflix
www.change.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Check out this petition to keep HIMYM on Netflix, created by my wonderful co-creator Carter's daughter! www.change.org/p/keep-how-i...
Reposted by Craig Thomas
Listened to half yesterday, currently at 75% and on track to finish today. It’s very good. Get the audiobook.
Dear world. I’ve written a novel. It’s my favorite thing I’ve ever written, besides HIMYM. It’s a different kind of love story, but just as personal to me. I really hope you’ll preorder: craigthomaswriter.com/novel
Out 11/4 via @harpercollins @htpbooks @hanoversquarepress
Out 11/4 via @harpercollins @htpbooks @hanoversquarepress
November 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Listened to half yesterday, currently at 75% and on track to finish today. It’s very good. Get the audiobook.
Reposted by Craig Thomas
Take a deep dive with @himymcraig.bsky.social on HIMYM, why disability representation is so important, and writing his debut novel, THAT'S NOT HOW IT HAPPENED, on the Debutiful Podcast with @vitcavage.bsky.social!
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7HSD...
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7HSD...
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Take a deep dive with @himymcraig.bsky.social on HIMYM, why disability representation is so important, and writing his debut novel, THAT'S NOT HOW IT HAPPENED, on the Debutiful Podcast with @vitcavage.bsky.social!
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7HSD...
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7HSD...
Had a great conversation with Adam Vitcavage on the Debutiful podcast about my debut novel THAT'S NOT HOW IT HAPPENED, out now everywhere you get your books! debutiful.net/2025/11/05/d...
Debutiful Podcast: HIMYM co-creator Craig Thomas discusses his debut book, That’s Not How It Happened
Listen and Subscribe: Apple | Spotify
debutiful.net
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Had a great conversation with Adam Vitcavage on the Debutiful podcast about my debut novel THAT'S NOT HOW IT HAPPENED, out now everywhere you get your books! debutiful.net/2025/11/05/d...
Reposted by Craig Thomas
BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.
Follow AP for live updates.
Follow AP for live updates.
Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power
One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:33 AM
BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.
Follow AP for live updates.
Follow AP for live updates.
Thank you, @variety.com, for this thoughtful feature on my debut novel, which came out TODAY!
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
‘How I Met Your Mother’ Co-Creator Craig Thomas on Spotlighting Disability and Family in His Debut Novel: ‘There’s a Lot of Me in There’
'How I Met Your Mother' co-creator Craig Thomas highlights family, disability and representation in debut novel, 'That's Not How It Happened'
variety.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Thank you, @variety.com, for this thoughtful feature on my debut novel, which came out TODAY!
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Book Tour for THAT'S NOT HOW IT HAPPENED...activate!
Tomorrow night in Long Island (where I'm from!)...
Friday night in L.A. (where we made #HIMYM for a decade!)...
To all the places I've lived:
Please come say hi if you can!!
Tomorrow night in Long Island (where I'm from!)...
Friday night in L.A. (where we made #HIMYM for a decade!)...
To all the places I've lived:
Please come say hi if you can!!
November 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Book Tour for THAT'S NOT HOW IT HAPPENED...activate!
Tomorrow night in Long Island (where I'm from!)...
Friday night in L.A. (where we made #HIMYM for a decade!)...
To all the places I've lived:
Please come say hi if you can!!
Tomorrow night in Long Island (where I'm from!)...
Friday night in L.A. (where we made #HIMYM for a decade!)...
To all the places I've lived:
Please come say hi if you can!!
Thanks to @debutiful.bsky.social for these wonderful words!
November 3, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Thanks to @debutiful.bsky.social for these wonderful words!
Honored my debut novel, THAT'S NOT HOW IT HAPPENED, is on this list!
Here are the 8 best debuts we read that are publishing in November! Featuring titles from @himymcraig.bsky.social, @eshanisurya.bsky.social, and more!
Learn more about them 👉 debutiful.net/2025/11/03/8...
Learn more about them 👉 debutiful.net/2025/11/03/8...
November 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Honored my debut novel, THAT'S NOT HOW IT HAPPENED, is on this list!
I was lucky to be a guest on "If We Knew Then - Down Syndrome Podcast" with amazing parents and podcasters, Lori and Stephen Saux, to discuss my debut novel, THAT'S NOT HOW IT HAPPENED, and the joys and complexities of raising children with a disability.
open.spotify.com/show/7vBwogR...
open.spotify.com/show/7vBwogR...
194. That’s Not How It Happened: A Novel By Craig Thomas
open.spotify.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I was lucky to be a guest on "If We Knew Then - Down Syndrome Podcast" with amazing parents and podcasters, Lori and Stephen Saux, to discuss my debut novel, THAT'S NOT HOW IT HAPPENED, and the joys and complexities of raising children with a disability.
open.spotify.com/show/7vBwogR...
open.spotify.com/show/7vBwogR...
Thanks to The Onion AV Club for selecting my debut novel, THAT'S NOT HOW IT HAPPENED, as one of their November reads! The book's out Tues, 11/4 but pre-order today at craigthomaswriter.com/novel!
www.avclub.com/book-club-cr...
www.avclub.com/book-club-cr...
What are you reading in November?
What are you reading in November?
www.avclub.com
November 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Thanks to The Onion AV Club for selecting my debut novel, THAT'S NOT HOW IT HAPPENED, as one of their November reads! The book's out Tues, 11/4 but pre-order today at craigthomaswriter.com/novel!
www.avclub.com/book-club-cr...
www.avclub.com/book-club-cr...
My book comes out on Tuesday, 11/4 -- FOUR days away! -- and these are the book events I have lined up for next week...please come if you possibly can!
November 1, 2025 at 12:22 AM
My book comes out on Tuesday, 11/4 -- FOUR days away! -- and these are the book events I have lined up for next week...please come if you possibly can!
Honored to be a book of the month! Pre-order now: www.harpercollins.com/products/tha...
October 30, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Honored to be a book of the month! Pre-order now: www.harpercollins.com/products/tha...
Here’s what my novel looks like on Ted Mosby’s drafting table.
As a tribute to Ted, I sat here and wrote the entire thing in longhand ok that’s not how it happened, but wouldn’t that be cool?
Pre-order THAT’S NOT HOW IT HAPPENED at craigthomaswriter.com/novel or wherever you buy books! #himym
As a tribute to Ted, I sat here and wrote the entire thing in longhand ok that’s not how it happened, but wouldn’t that be cool?
Pre-order THAT’S NOT HOW IT HAPPENED at craigthomaswriter.com/novel or wherever you buy books! #himym
October 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Here’s what my novel looks like on Ted Mosby’s drafting table.
As a tribute to Ted, I sat here and wrote the entire thing in longhand ok that’s not how it happened, but wouldn’t that be cool?
Pre-order THAT’S NOT HOW IT HAPPENED at craigthomaswriter.com/novel or wherever you buy books! #himym
As a tribute to Ted, I sat here and wrote the entire thing in longhand ok that’s not how it happened, but wouldn’t that be cool?
Pre-order THAT’S NOT HOW IT HAPPENED at craigthomaswriter.com/novel or wherever you buy books! #himym
Thank you, People for including my debut novel, THAT’S NOT HOW IT HAPPENED in Friday's issue as one of the “Best New Books” iand for describing it as “poignant.” Pre-order the book (or audiobook w/ Josh Radnor + Cobie Smulders!) today at craigthomaswriter.com or wherever you buy books!
October 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Thank you, People for including my debut novel, THAT’S NOT HOW IT HAPPENED in Friday's issue as one of the “Best New Books” iand for describing it as “poignant.” Pre-order the book (or audiobook w/ Josh Radnor + Cobie Smulders!) today at craigthomaswriter.com or wherever you buy books!
I'm doing a book talk + reading at Theodore's in Oyster Bay Long Island on 11/5 with the wonderful Brenda Janowitz! RSVP here: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
Co-Creator of HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER Craig Thomas Discusses & Signs THAT'S NOT HOW IT HAPPENED
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5TH | 7:00PMAt Theodore's BooksGold Coast Forum presents an evening with the co-creator & executive producer of Emmy Award-winning How I Met Your Mother, Craig Thomas, in conve...
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October 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I'm doing a book talk + reading at Theodore's in Oyster Bay Long Island on 11/5 with the wonderful Brenda Janowitz! RSVP here: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
My debut novel is out 11/4 but please PRE-ORDER TODAY!
Pre-orders boost visibility, plus we're raising money for kids w/ disabilities, like my son, who inspired this novel!
This is my favorite thing I've ever written besides HIMYM. Pre-order @ craigthomaswriter.com/novel or wherever you buy books!
Pre-orders boost visibility, plus we're raising money for kids w/ disabilities, like my son, who inspired this novel!
This is my favorite thing I've ever written besides HIMYM. Pre-order @ craigthomaswriter.com/novel or wherever you buy books!
October 24, 2025 at 12:52 AM
My debut novel is out 11/4 but please PRE-ORDER TODAY!
Pre-orders boost visibility, plus we're raising money for kids w/ disabilities, like my son, who inspired this novel!
This is my favorite thing I've ever written besides HIMYM. Pre-order @ craigthomaswriter.com/novel or wherever you buy books!
Pre-orders boost visibility, plus we're raising money for kids w/ disabilities, like my son, who inspired this novel!
This is my favorite thing I've ever written besides HIMYM. Pre-order @ craigthomaswriter.com/novel or wherever you buy books!
Long Islanders:
I'm doing a book event for my debut novel oat THEODORE'S BOOKS in Oyster Bay on Wednesday, November 5th at 7 PM, moderated by a wonderful author (and fellow Long Island native), Brenda Janowitz.
I'd love to see you there if you can make it!
I'm doing a book event for my debut novel oat THEODORE'S BOOKS in Oyster Bay on Wednesday, November 5th at 7 PM, moderated by a wonderful author (and fellow Long Island native), Brenda Janowitz.
I'd love to see you there if you can make it!
October 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Long Islanders:
I'm doing a book event for my debut novel oat THEODORE'S BOOKS in Oyster Bay on Wednesday, November 5th at 7 PM, moderated by a wonderful author (and fellow Long Island native), Brenda Janowitz.
I'd love to see you there if you can make it!
I'm doing a book event for my debut novel oat THEODORE'S BOOKS in Oyster Bay on Wednesday, November 5th at 7 PM, moderated by a wonderful author (and fellow Long Island native), Brenda Janowitz.
I'd love to see you there if you can make it!
Reposted by Craig Thomas
To be crystal clear: trump is talking about taxpayers paying him millions of dollars as some sort of restitution because he was investigated for sending a mob to the US capitol on Jan 6th to overthrow the 2020 election. That might just be he most f*cked up thing he’s done since Jan 6th…
Trump: "It's awfully strange to make a decision where I'm paying myself. But I was damaged very greatly and any money I would get I would give to charity."
October 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
To be crystal clear: trump is talking about taxpayers paying him millions of dollars as some sort of restitution because he was investigated for sending a mob to the US capitol on Jan 6th to overthrow the 2020 election. That might just be he most f*cked up thing he’s done since Jan 6th…
My debut novel, THAT'S NOT HOW IT HAPPENED, drops two weeks from today!
The audiobook features my buddy Josh Radnor, whose kind words in the video below mean the world to me!
Pre-order at craigthomaswriter.com/novel or wherever you buy books.
The audiobook features my buddy Josh Radnor, whose kind words in the video below mean the world to me!
Pre-order at craigthomaswriter.com/novel or wherever you buy books.
October 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
My debut novel, THAT'S NOT HOW IT HAPPENED, drops two weeks from today!
The audiobook features my buddy Josh Radnor, whose kind words in the video below mean the world to me!
Pre-order at craigthomaswriter.com/novel or wherever you buy books.
The audiobook features my buddy Josh Radnor, whose kind words in the video below mean the world to me!
Pre-order at craigthomaswriter.com/novel or wherever you buy books.
SEASON 2 OF "HOW WE MADE YOUR MOTHER" STARTS RIGHT NOW, no need to wait for it...
Go to howwemadeyourmother.com or wherever you get podcasts.
Go to howwemadeyourmother.com or wherever you get podcasts.
October 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
SEASON 2 OF "HOW WE MADE YOUR MOTHER" STARTS RIGHT NOW, no need to wait for it...
Go to howwemadeyourmother.com or wherever you get podcasts.
Go to howwemadeyourmother.com or wherever you get podcasts.
October 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM