Thank you for believing in our book How it Feels to Me!

Many of you have been offering to help us spread the word.

Here are the best ways to help us reach more readers.

Write a review. 🌟

The best way to help us reach more readers is by leaving a review on Amazon (click here to review on Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk or both.)

Try not to overthink this. You can keep it short and sweet. Think about what you’d text a friend if you wanted them to read it.

Even if you didn’t buy a book there, this is the best way to help.

(As a reminder, Amazon makes no profit from books sold through my shop, or indie bookstores.)

Don’t have an Amazon account? The next best place to write a review is a reading app like Storygraph or Fable.

Tell a friend. 🐝

Another fantastic way to help is to tell a friend.

Send the link to someone you know who you think would love the book.

This is way more effective than posting to social media!

Ask your community. 🐞

You can also request the book at your local library, school, or indie bookshop.

Send them to this link which offers a 40% discount.

(Thanks to all the teachers who pre-ordered at full price. Your preorders helped us cover costs of the print run that brought this project to life.)

Thank you! 🦋

However you choose to help we appreciate you!

How it Feels to me is OUT NOW!

If you’ve been waiting to order I now have 200 books in hand.

Hardcovers come with signed bookplates, bookmarks, and stickers (until I run out!)

I’m taking a break from packing books to write a quick update.

So much is happening so quickly!!!

Our hardcover shipment arrived last Friday. Because the last batch had quality control issues I opened each book to check for misprints as I shelved them. It made for a cool video and this print run had no mistakes!

After unpacking all of these books it is finally feeling real.

The book is DONE.

Monday was a holiday, so our official launch day was Tuesday, October 13. I’ve been shipping out books every day this week and only have 20 preorders left to go. 🥳

DREAMING BIG

We also sent a copy in to Reading Rainbow’s open casting call.

Is this real life?

NOW IN BOOKSHOPS!

NW Arkansas local can now find How it Feels to Me at two awesome bookshops in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

We’re in DAD SUGGESTS BOOKS which has a life size hobbit hole.

And we’re also stocked at PEARLS BOOKS who has a giant luck dragon (!) in their picture book section.

We have so many incredible bookshops in our area. I’ll be pitching the rest soon.

If you’d like to request How it Feels to Me at your local bookstore, library, or school to stock our book – send them here for a 40% discount.

FAQ

We also wrote up an official FAQ this week to answer some of the questions we’ve been getting.

Our #1 Question has been, “Do you ship to my country?”

And the answer is: Yes! Paperbacks are available globally.

Hardcovers print and ship from the US & UK.

If you’d like a custom shipping quote for your country please request one.

Click here to read everything else (including where we print our books and why they are not currently available through Ingram Spark.)

BEHIND THE SCENES

If you’re curious about the self publishing process I’ll be sharing some behind-the-scenes on Patreon next week.

And Gracie wrote a beautiful post about the illustration process. Check it out!

RAINBOW ZINES

I also finished assembling the rainbow zines. If you’d like to buy one let me know.

REMEMBER TO VOTE

I also made an mini VOTE zine for October. Please remember to vote!

Midterm elections are very important.

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That’s all for this week!

Huge thanks to everyone who preordered, shared our posts, and helped us bring this project to life.

If you joined the launch team I’ll be sending an email next week about final steps to help us out. My hands have been a little full this week. 🦋

Cheers,