You guys, my new children’s book just came out.
It’s actually not all that new. In fact, it’s 22 years old. I wrote and illustrated it when I was living in Asia and teaching children. My husband put it on PowerPoint right after we were married a decade ago. He also improved a lot of the images, like turning – what looked like – smiley faces in jail (Happy Zoo) into adorable smiley animals.
But it wasn’t until this whole self-publishing thing became an option that I could make the book available. I had completely forgotten about it after my memoir, and my husband encouraged me to dig it out. My designer put it into publishable format and chose a really cute font, and . . . voila!
The book is free on Kindle for 5 days, and I wanted to ask if you could help me spread the word, and also download it, even if you don’t have age-appropriate children. This will make it more visible on Amazon.
Thanks. And . . . that’s it.
Then we’re really back to our regularly scheduled programming. I promise. 🙂
Alison says
Yay, congratulations Jennie! Sharing this everywhere.
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ladyjennie says
Thanks love!
Kerstin @ Auer Life says
Wonderful! Of course I’m sharing!
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ladyjennie says
You’re the best, Kerstin. Emoticons rule!
Ann says
Congratulations! Happy to spread the word for you too.
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ladyjennie says
Thanks for the tweet, Ann!
julie gardner says
I love you.
And happy people.
Might as well have them EVERYWHERE.
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ladyjennie says
Awww! I love you too.
(and happy people)
Jessica says
How exciting! Congratulations!
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ladyjennie says
Thanks Jessica!
Andrea says
Yay! How fun is this book?
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ladyjennie says
It is a silly giggly ole thing, but I do feel affectionately about this project.
Tamara says
Well, who could resist this? What a deal! And I love that your book is getting new life, 22 years later.
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ladyjennie says
Thanks Tamara! I was going through a big smiley face stage right out of college, and this is the by-product.
Jessica says
Congratulations! I’m in the middle of gathering the courage to self-publish the children’s book that has been sitting on my computer for years. I’m so glad you did it.
ladyjennie says
Do it! Do it! Do it!
If you decide to go the self-publishing route, I’m not sure if you saw my post just before this one, but it has a step-by-step guide so you can save yourself all the hair pulling.
Tinne from Tantrums and Tomatoes says
Wauw congratulations! Any change of a Dutch translation?
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ladyjennie says
No, but you won’t need it. Here are the words from the first three pages:
Happy here
Happy there
Happy people everywhere!
See what I mean? 😉
Kimberly says
I am so EXCITED!!!
AHHHHHH!!
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ladyjennie says
Thank you Kimberloo. Wait – isn’t it in the middle of the night for you?
Hillary says
Congratulations, Jennie!
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