Incredible review of Heave Ho! from the Book Troll Real Escape blog!

The Heave Ho! cast and I are super-excited about our latest review from the Book Troll Real Escape blog. Karen (the Book Troll blogger) and her son (assistant Book Troll) sat down and read the book together. She tells of his excitement as they opened the package together, saw the book for the first time, and of his engagement with the story as the worms bravely came to the assistance of their worm buddies. I could go on and on about how much I enjoyed their enjoyment of the book, but I'll let you read it for yourself. 

"Once the story was done he joyful looked at me and said, “Mommy books about worms are the best!” I would have to say that Jose Lucio scored big in this house with Heave Ho!"

Click the Book Troll to read the whole review. 

"We will certainly keep this one around in our house and enjoy it over and over again. Plus we got two adorable worms in the book that are now “my best friends,” according to my three year old."

The rest of the Heave Ho! books have arrived!!!

900 books arrived yesterday, so now it's time to really start moving these things. Kapo (the dog) is doing her part by sorting through the packing filler. 

The books are stocked at E. Shaver Bookseller in downtown Savannah, GA and you can get them here on the site in the shop. 

Heave Ho! has moved 100 copies in less than a month!

So the good news is that we've sold our first 100 copies of Heave Ho! ,the bad new is that I don't have the rest of the shipment yet, but it sounds like they should be here by the end of next week, so thanks for your patience if you're waiting on a copy. 

In the meantime, I'll be researching outlets for the book, and looking more into doing a tour around the southeast in the coming year. 

Until next time...

Everything's coming together.

After countless hours down the rabbithole that is the interwebs, I think I've finally got all the basics figured out to get Heave Ho! released and ready for debut at the Savannah Children's Book Festival. 

This whole self-publishing venture has had a lot of twists and turns, but for me, it was important to do it correctly so that I owned rights to the book and had complete creative control the whole way.  

Of course, all this so far is only the first step. Next I have to buckle down and actually get the book out there in front of people! I'm still a little leery of Amazon, but I think as long as I maintain myself as the distributor, I won't have to feel compromised by that. 

That's enough industry jargon, here's a pic of the key to Annelidical Books (Heave Ho!s publisher (me)). 

New look for the website!

Things have been a little quiet around here, but I'm getting back at it now- I've changed up the site, and am getting ready for a big push with Heave Ho. Check back in here for activity and events as things progress. See you soon.