To apply for an International Standard Book Number online took about 3 minutes for both of the books, here are the simple steps you need to take to register an ISBN for your own book…
Production Diary
Here you’ll find an archive of updates we made when we were producing our books. It’s a little old now but we decided to keep it for posterity. If you’re interested in self-publishing then hopefully there’s a nugget or two in here for you. If you have any questions just leave a comment.
Self-Publishing Organising
Today has been busy. Sending off contracts for our illustrator, paying 50% of our printing and remembering about ISBNs. As soon as we seriously considered publishing Nerdy Numbers and Sci-Fi Shapes, I contacted our illustrator and printer. They’re my top priorities. Without them we don’t go ahead. So, after our Kickstarter success, I sent an email to book them in.
An Interview with Sarah
Last week Sarah was interviewed on a popular women’s business podcast. She talks about self-publishing, working from home, balancing being a full time mum and businesswoman, online marketing and plenty more.
Listen Now!
Half Way
Well we’re half way through our Kickstarter campaign and we have half the funds raised, thanks so much to all our amazing backers!
New Books Now on Kickstarter
Whoop! Today we launch our Kickstarter campaign for the new books. Please head over and see if there’s a pledge that suits you, you can even appear in a book if you like!
Visit our Kickstarter Page
Even if you can’t back the project today, please take a moment to share it with your friends in case one of them is interested in being involved. Any support is hugely appreciated :)
Nerdy Numbers & Sci-fi Shapes Trailer
Here’s a sneak peek of the trailer for our new books :)
What do you think? Let us know in the comments :)
You Can Be In Our Next Book
We are very excited to announce that in May will be launching a Kickstarter campaign to get Nerdy Numbers and Sci-fi Shapes off the ground. We’ve come up with some very exciting ways for our readers to get involved and even be featured in the books!
Themes Keep it Real
We’ve developed different back-stories for the new books: Nerdy Numbers is set at a birthday party and Sci-Fi Shapes is all about an imaginary astronaut adventure.
I believe it’s important to make learning meaningful. Like any parent does every day – counting the objects, or identifying shapes around them. Our youngest (2) went through a phase of identifying the triangles wherever she was. That’s what we want for our numbers and shapes, that children will start identifying the number 42 or a twin helix when they see one. I mean truly – how cool would that be!
Andrew Decides Not To Think
“It’s too late, I need to do something that doesn’t require any thinking… like building a website” – Andrew
Free Vector Jigsaw Puzzle Template
I was working on the jigsaw puzzle mini-game today and I couldn’t find any good, free, vector-based jigsaw puzzle outlines… so I made my own. Feel free to download and use this for your own projects…