Long time since last post

I don't know where time goes to... I've been busy preparing outlines of some new stories and looking for some new ways to market my existing books. Still waiting on a couple of the new covers from the publisher and hope can get these and get some of the existing books relaunched in time for the festive season...

Revised covers

Solstice Publishing have arranged revised covers for four of my books, and they're now all listed on their site as follows:

http://www.solsticepublishing.com/products/Canadian-Adventure.html

http://www.solsticepublishing.com/products/Quite-a-Day-Out%252d%252dPDF-EBOOK.html

http://www.solsticepublishing.com/products/The-Unexpected-Thief%252d%252dPDF-EBOOK.html

http://www.solsticepublishing.com/products/Treasure-Trail%252d%252dPDF-EBOOK.html


Check them out, they're great reads!

Audio/interactive books

Just exploring the idea of making some of the books already published into either audio books or interactive books, with the characters able to move around the page. One of my publishers has also been looking at this and it's something I'm quite keen to explore further. With the ever increasing use of I-pads, Kindle etc then, hopefully, sales can last that much longer.

On the publishing side, it's planned to get another couple of my books published in the next six weeks or so, then I'll start looking at some more writing - although my 'adult' books are taking up a lot of time at present...

Solstice's Summer promotions

Understand that Solstice are planning a major summer promotion for all of their childrens' books under the Fairytales and Dreams imprint. The daily newsletter on Yahoo Groups seems to be working well also and receiving a fair bit of attention.

Still looking forward to the next set of revised covers from Solstice but expect this will be next month as they are gradually phasing in all 13 books I have contracted with them for.

Almost time to start on some new ones, let's see what the next few weeks brings....

Race Against Time

Solstice have started sending the new covers to me, I've seen three so far; all very interesting. Race Against Time has now been listed and can be found at:

http://www.solsticepublishing.com/products/Race-Against-Time%252d%252dPDF-EBOOK.html

Plenty more stories to follow, keep an eye out for them in the coming weeks...

New books, new covers

Solstice Publishing are working on some new covers for my books and I hope they'll be available in the next two or three weeks. In the meantime, I've joined Solstice Groups news letters and get a daily update on things happening reelvant to my stories. All in all an exciting time and hope all this effort translates into more sales! Hope to post a new cover or two next time.

Busy times

Wow, a month has slipped by since my last entry - busy indeed; 'Combo 3', 'Terry The Turtle', 'Spider' and 'Mice are Nice' are now all available on Solstice Books, Fairytales and Dreams' imprint. They have been actively promoting my books by their daily news updates plus other channels and here's hoping sales continue.

Have a couple of new ideas in the works just need to find the time to sit down and put pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard as it were. Still, with a couple of holidays on the horizon, have some spare time coming up over the next month or so. In the meantime, check the publishers web sites list on this blog and see if you can find one of my books to suit.... btw here's the cover of 'Spider' again seems this is becoming a favourite!

Combo Goes to Soccer

The third book in the Combo series, Combo Goes to Soccer, is now available through Solstice Publishing, check it out on their website: http://www.solsticepublishing.com/brands/Fairytales-And-Dreams.html

There are another 7 stories in progress so keep a look out for the next stories as they become available - all with pictures on every page, not like most e-books which only present a picture on the cover.

In the meantime, have been looking at creating a cartoon character called 'Lulee', being the name of the central character in some of my newer stories....

Combo and the Robots now published

The second Combo book is now available at Solstice Publishing - see links below and above. The third one is with the publishers for final review; we have another seven in the pipeline but it may well be the end of the year before they're all published.

Terry the Turtle is next on the list for formal release; a delightful tale of the 'mislaid' Turtle; check it out at www.book2read.com in another week or so - in the meantime have a look at all of our other books, some of which are selling particularly well....

Visit to The Peak

Decided to work on another couple of adventures stories, rather than pictures stories, something more similar to those books already listed on my blog -- but some new stories! Already have the outlines to hand and, in fact one is just about ready: 'Visit to The Peak'. Thinking about the cover and the preferred published but will do this (I hope) over the forthcoming Chinese New Year holiday in early February when we have a few days break and some time to catch up on things like this. Next time will also a cover picture for Combo 3 which, we hope will be published next month....