I’ve been busy taking my children’s book, The Good Night Knight around to a few schools. My Kickstarter campaign had a Book Reading Party as a pledge option and a few great friends chose to support this option. The Book Reading parties brought me to rooms filled with excited kids ranging in age from 3 to 8. Each visit was special and with each visit I was amazed by what the kids took away from the story. One boy noticed that the story rhymed…and mentioned it after each page. One girl told me that she thought that knights were supposed to have a horse. The other kids in that class helped me decide that the next book should have the Good Night Knight should find a horse (or better yet a unicorn). And one girl just wanted to know why the Cyclops’ arms were so big. It was a lot of fun! Not only did I get to see a lot of young faces really interested in the book (exactly what you hope for when you are working late nights trying bring a book into creation), but I also learned what kinds of things the kids were drawn to.
Where you can find The Good Night Knight children’s book now.
Now that all of the Kickstarter campaign pledges have been fulfilled, the next steps for The Good Night Knight are getting it out to more people. In doing that, I want to present the story in in different forms and on new platforms. So, now you can find the Kindle ebook version on Amazon and you can the audiobook on Amazon, Audible, and iTunes.
Here is the link for the Kindle ebook and here is the link for the audiobook.
The Kindle Ebook.
Both versions were a new venture for me. First, the Kindle ebook. I thought it would be like creating a PDF from my existing print files. The print files, which I had in Adobe InDesign, were a good starting place but it was more involved than just exporting as a different file. Ultimately, I ended up making the ebook text part of the images and creating the pages as fixed layouts. I know there are a lot of fun things that can be done with the format, but I preferred to have something that was simple but worked well than something more interactive that could have a lot of hiccups.
The Audiobook.
The audiobook was a special project for me. My good friend, Doug, is an excellent sound engineer for a local studio and he gave me a sweet deal to record at his home studio. I got to break out my acoustic guitar and write and record a little opening piece for the audiobook. But best of all, my dad did the actual book narration. It meant a lot to me to have him be a part of the Good Night Knight…and it doesn’t hurt that he has a really resonate voice.
What’s next?
I have a couple of small projects and shows I have planned for the Good Night Knight and after that I plan to document my process of creating a children’s book. I’ve had a lot of people ask about various parts of the process. I think I could help a few people create their own children’s book and hopefully save them from growing as many gray hairs as I did.
Thanks for reading and stay tuned for more!