Hey, folks. So here's the little project that I've been hinting about -- actually, it's in two parts:1. I've started a small press. It's called Serendib Press.
2. Our first book is a collaboration between myself and Kat Beyer, The Poet's Journey, available for purchase right now. Isn't it pretty? :-) Suitable for children and poets of all ages. (In a month or two, once it's processed, you'll be able to also buy it from Amazon, but if you do that, Kat and I get like 25 cents each/book, instead of $3/book. Just fyi.) The best part of the whole project has been working with Kat -- I love her illustrations, and I especially love all of the marvellous expressions she gave my young poet. So adorable!!! I hope we get the chance to do more books together in the future...
Umm...that's it, I think. This is really sort of a pre-launch launch -- we're planning to launch the press properly with a party at WisCon. Right now, I'd love it if you have a chance to stop by the site and take a look, let me know if you catch any typos, broken links, etc. I think I got Dreamweaver to do basically everything I wanted to do -- although I failed utterly in my attempts to redefine the basic style sheets, and after a few hours of pounding my head against the wall, gave up in frustration (all I wanted to do was change the blues of the links to greens, sigh). But there may well be errors I missed. Help?
So I'm a publisher now. Hooray!
And no, I didn't have enough to do already. Why do you ask?
Congratulations, Mary Anne! The book is beautiful!
Out of curiosity, when you say “suitable for children” what age range did you have in mind?
I’m honestly not sure where the lines get drawn — Kavi is much too young for me to have any experience. 🙂 I’d guess that you could read it to a very little kid of age 3+, maybe skipping over one or two scary lines if you have a particularly sensitive child. And that a kid could read it on their own and appreciate it best maybe age 7-10? But I’m not too sure…