Kickstarter Update For The Masses : )

Hey Everyone,

My 2d endeavor at running a Kickstarter entirely has ix to a greater extent than days!  : )  This fourth dimension I am funded together with hoping to surpass the 1st attempt's numbers.  With the smaller funding destination nosotros were able to teach inwards a successful campaign.

If yous don't already know almost my book, The Pancake Menu, I invite yous to cheque it out together with part it.


Life has been busy lately amongst kids together with around of their things, together with therefore I haven't been able to spider web log every bit much every bit I invention to.

The rewards offered amongst this Kickstarter may never move available again, together with therefore if yous are interested inwards getting the coin pack, apron, spatula--you mightiness desire to see it spell yous tin flaming : )

Thanks together with therefore much for next my publishing adventure.  BTW, I was researching distribution the other solar daytime together with it is expensive!  I mean value I may postulate to personally handgrip distribution for a spell together with therefore in that location is around lucre made on the book.  Seriously, if distribution gets 30%, stores purchase the mass at 50% of the price, together with the mass itself costs to impress together with send places... that leaves 0% for me : (  But, if yous know of whatsoever adept mass distributors, I'm all ears.

I promise yous convey a wonderful day!

Barnes & Noble Wants My Book, But...

I was thence excited to larn the missive of the alphabet from Barnes together with Noble later submitting to their pocket-size press department.  It has about expert news--they would dearest to purchase copies of my book!  The bad news--they exclusively direct keep books from majority distributors together with wholesalers, which they attached a spreadsheet of 10 distributors together with iii wholesalers.

Distributors direct keep a large per centum of the majority cost, only they equally good advertise the majority for you, thence hopefully to a greater extent than copies of your majority would survive sold.  Book wholesalers solid your majority together with direct keep it inward their catalogue thence if a school, library, or bookstore wants to purchase it they can.

Besides the large fee to laid an trouble concern human relationship alongside Baker & Taylor (my preferred majority wholesaler) I equally good desire to brand kidsmenubooks.com await to a greater extent than professional.  I decided to run about other crowdfunding campaign!  Hence you lot volition run across the crusade inward the upper correct : ).

At commencement I was going to larn alongside Kickstarter again, only thence I looked into Indiegogo... They direct keep about features that I actually liked, mainly the flexible pay together with the extended 'InDemand' thence people tin purchase fifty-fifty later the crusade is over.

So hither it is... http://igg.me/at/thepancakemenu

My Indiegogo crusade to heighten coin for a redesigned website for kidsmenubooks.com together with to pay for laid fees thence The Pancake Menu tin larn into libraries together with bookstores!

Please considering supporting past times purchasing a majority for

• You, your kids or grand-kids
• Other solid unit of measurement members
• Your local uncomplicated school
• Your uncomplicated schoolhouse you lot attended equally a child
• Anyone who has kids ages 6-11!

Author Adventures!

Being an writer is a lot of function together with it tin hold upward extremely rewarding!

If you lot are next along my writer floor I am thus grateful together with I cause got updates!

So, a few months agone kidsmenubooks.com (my mass site) was revamped together with straightaway looks amazing (yay)!

In September I heard give-and-take dorsum from B&N Small Press Dept. that they would similar to club 8 copies of The Pancake Menu, although they solely select books from mass wholesalers together with distributors.  So, I contacted Baker & Taylor (a mass wholesaler who ofttimes caters to the schoolhouse together with library markets).  They accepted me equally a vendor together with I am nonetheless inward the procedure of finishing the vendor laid up. I am upward on their database, precisely they haven't sent me the kickoff buy order.  So, pretty shortly B&N volition cause got my mass available if you lot walk into a shop together with tell you lot desire it ordered. : )

On the weblog Math Coach's Corner Donna did a wonderful review of the mass together with I got a proficient amount of people that signed upward to have my monthly newsletter!

I'm scheduled to become to Center Street Elementary (El Segundo, CA) inward early on March to produce 3 assemblies for the 1st & 2d grade, third & quaternary grade, together with the fifth bird classes. I'll larn to ship my pre-order shape habitation amongst them shortly together with I'm thus excited to utter amongst them together with encourage them to travel past times away along reading together with playing amongst math!

Then, a met a somebody from Mathnasium.com together with nosotros are planning to produce a weblog post for them together with a giveaway at around request (the details haven't been finalized).

There are fifty-fifty a few other items of mass details going on... My search for a ameliorate ebook formatter for fixed format inward ePUB together with Mobi files. And thus a rights manager.

There are a lot of things that become into having a book... Things are moving along together with I appreciate all the back upward together with promise that this resources is loved past times kids from all over!

If you lot haven't already I would dear to cause got you lot larn my monthly newsletters. I volition hold upward giving a production away gratis periodically to that mailing list.  Have a slap-up hateful solar daytime everyone--and if you've read til hither I'd dear whatever feedback you lot cause got for me. I promise you lot savour kidsmenubooks.com together with the hands-on math sense that The Pancake Menu tin convey : )