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Takatsu Of Forests and Clocks and Dreams Kickstarter campaign

Takatsu, the pioneer of the English cell phone novel and a trailblazer in transmedia storytelling, has launched a Kickstarter campaign for his collection of literary short stories, poetry, essays and experimental art, photography and design. His goal of $700 has already been achieved in a week and will fund the print run and marketing for Of Forests and Clocks and Dreams and help to start a new project called Inspiritus Press. However, any funds received over this will allow for a larger print run and the possibility of hardcover editions. 
Check out his beautiful designs for his collection and the innovative rewards he has on offer for contributors, including a handmade coffee bean cell phone charm, an EP with original songs or a personal Skype session with the author:  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/takatsu/of-forests-and-clocks-and-dreams-a-writing-collect/description













Kickstarter campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/takatsu/of-forests-and-clocks-and-dreams-a-writing-collect/description

Cell phone novels - Takatsu: http://outofprintwriting.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/cell-phone-novels-takatsu.html

Is Kindle Scout right for you? by Katie O'Rourke

Kindle Scout is a crowdsourced publishing platform, described as 'reader-powered publishing for new, never-before-published books'. Authors are encouraged to promote their book through their networks, asking readers to 'nominate' their work for publication. Selected books will be published by Kindle Press and receive a $1,500 advance, 50% eBook royalty rate and featured Amazon marketing. Author Katie O'Rourke is trying out this platform and gives us her best tips to help decide whether Kindle Scout is right for you? Here's what Katie had to say ...

Is Kindle Scout right for you?

On October first, I launched a Kindle Scout campaign for my third novel, Finding Charlie. As a hybrid author with one book traditionally published already, I see Kindle Scout as one of several ways I can get my work out there. There are many things I considered first and they're things you might want to think about before going this route.


1. Is you're book finished? Like, really finished. Kindle Scout is not interested in your work in progress and they also don't want the first draft of what might someday be a great polished novel. Don't submit something until you're sure it's ready.


2. Has it been edited? OK, so we can't all afford a professional editor, but I have never met a writer capable of a self-edit. We read it the way we meant and can't see our own typos. An outside perspective is mandatory.


3. Has the book been read and enjoyed by more than just your mother? Seriously. Make sure you have a story that can appeal to people who don't have to sit across from you at Thanksgiving. Otherwise, you're just wasting everyone's time, including your own.


4. Do you have a professional cover? You know that saying "Don't judge a book by its cover"? Well, we all do. Look at covers for best sellers in your genre and do a google search for pre-made ebook covers. You might be surprised how affordable they can be.


5. Do you have some sort of social media presence? If you just set up a facebook page last week and you're thinking of opening a twitter account just for the campaign, this might be an uphill climb.


I've written and rewritten Finding Charlie over the course of the last two years. It won the crowd-sourcing competition at Authonomy.com in September and I have dozens of beta readers who have given helpful and encouraging feedback. I queried many literary agencies and had several positive responses that ultimately went nowhere. I worked with a graphic designer to create a cover that I love. In the process of self-publishing my second novel, I've started to get a hang of this social media thing.


So, I feel ready. We'll see if it works! Check out my campaign where you can read an excerpt and decide if Finding Charlie is worthy of your vote: https://kindlescout.amazon.com/p/1ZEZ9K2DLCYOB

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Find out more about how Kindle Scout works: https://kindlescout.amazon.com/about

Read Katie's O'Rourke's other feature posts on this blog:
Author Katie O'Rourke on her new novel A Long Thaw:
http://outofprintwriting.blogspot.com.au/2015/05/author-katie-orourke-about-her-new.html


Recently in print - Katie O'Rourke:  http://outofprintwriting.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/recently-in-print-katie-orourke.html

BooktoberFest - books & writing challenge on Instagram

Author Jenny Bravo of Blots & Plots has come up with a books & writing Instagram challenge called BooktoberFest. I love Instagram and I adore the ideas she's given for each day of the month - so I'm challenging myself to contribute a photo a day! You can join in the challenge or follow along at #BooktoberFest. Follow Jenny Bravo on Instagram @blotsandplots
It's been school holidays here, so I've been having some fun with my daughter setting up some shots for the challenge. My living room is currently stacked with piles of books still to be photographed ...

See my books & writing photos for BooktoberFest on Instagram: https://instagram.com/outaprintwriter

The Replacement Wife blog tour round up part 2

My blog tour for The Replacement Wife has now come to an end ... here's some of the posts from the last part of my blog tour journey:
JbiggarblogDo your characters talk to you?Absolutely. My characters keep me company. They’re loudest in the shower, probably because it’s in the morning and my head hasn’t been clouded by other things as yet. My characters are intriguing people and they walk with me on the footpath, in the supermarket and whisper to me on my pillow.
What are the best writing books or blogs you've ever read? 
I like Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style for sensible advice like: ‘A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.’ I like to follow Aerogramme Writers’ Studio – a blog with information about opportunities for writers. I really enjoy Ericka Clay ’s upbeat writing style in her blog. She’s witty and courageous and puts herself out there. My other favourite blog for writers is Jason Howell’s Howlarium – he asks thought-provoking questions of different writers weekly in his ?uestions series.
Read more: http://jacqbiggar.com/2015/09/28/the-replacement-wife-by-rowena-wiseman-mfrwauthor-mgtab-romance-outaprintwriter/
Harps Romance Book Review
How did you get started, can you give people wanting to write an idea how to get started?I’ve always been writing stories since I was a kid. I did a degree in Professional Writing, but it wasn’t until I was working for a few years that I returned to writing and wrote my first novel Searching for Von Honningsbergs. I submitted this to everyone and everywhere, and the rejections kept on getting more and more positive. If you get good rejections, then inspiration can come from rejection. Eventually, it was longlisted for the Australian Vogel Award and I knew that there was something about what I was writing or the way that I was writing that could get noticed. It was the encouragement I needed to keep on going.

In the beginning, my goal was to get published. Now that I am being published, I know that publishing can be distracting and my goal now is to be able to focus more on my writing! Writers starting out should enjoy the freedom of writing with hope and anonymity. Write with courage and submit with courage. Learn about this changing industry and get excited about the possibilities of writing in this digital age. Join an online writing community like Wattpad and find out if there’s an audience for your work and connect with other writers and readers.
Read more: http://www.harpsromancebookreview.com/replacement-wife-by-rowena-wiseman-qa-with-author/
Dena Garson
Which do you prefer writing adult or children fiction and why?I couldn’t pick, it would be like choosing a favourite child! I love writing for children because I get to be more playful and bring out my inner child. I also write young adult fiction and I really love the raw emotions I can bring out in my teen characters. I like that I can challenge myself more with my writing style in adult fiction and write more creatively. I think a lot of my adult fiction shows adults behaving like children – just because my characters are older, doesn’t mean they’re any more mature!
Read more: http://denagarson.net/2015/09/book-tour-replacement-wife-by-rowena-wiseman/
Rachel Brimble
What was your first job? Did you like or dislike it? Why?My first job, I hate to say it, was working at McDonald’s. In my first week I failed a secret shopper visit. Apparently I didn’t smile or upsell. And so set the tone of my career at McDonald’s; oil burns on my arms from the chip fryer, smelly armpits, oily pimples from wearing a hat. It was in the days before they had salads at McDonald’s, where men would order a Big Mac and a cheeseburger and customers would abuse you if you forgot to put a serviette in their takeaway bag. The only upside of working at McDonald’s was the training I got, I’ve never had such thorough training ever since. They taught me to multitask – take the order, get the tray out, put the cup under the drinks pourer, grab the burger, grab the chips, drink now poured, grab the drink … there was a process for everything.
Read more: http://www.rachelbrimble.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/please-welcome-harper-impulse-author.html
ArchaeolibrarianTell us a little about The Replacement Wife?The Replacement Wife is about a lady named Luisa who falls in love with another man, so she tries to find a wife for her husband. She has an 8-year-old son and she convinces herself that she is looking after everyone’s interests by attempting to play matchmaker for her husband.
Read more: http://archaeolibrarianologist.blogspot.com.au/2015/10/vbt-giveaway-replacement-wife-by-rowena.html
Thanks to all these bloggers for hosting The Replacement Wife and to Goddess Fish Promotions and HarperCollins for organising the tour.

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00WDN9R24
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=9781460705902
Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/the-replacement-wife-8
iBooks: https://itunes.apple.com/au/book/the-replacement-wife/id987629388

The Replacement Wife blog tour round up part 1

I'm half way through my blog tour for The Replacement Wife. I've been asked lots of challenging, interesting and funny questions. I was also asked to do a post on 'why the grass is always greener on the other side'. Here's a round up of some the posts on the tour so far ...

Christine Young
How do you come up with ideas for your books?
Ideas for my stories come from many places – from conversations with friends or something that I’ve read in the newspaper. Often an idea comes when I’m bothered by something, when it doesn’t make sense – it’s like solving a problem. For The Replacement Wife the idea came from a lady I knew who had just gotten into a relationship with a man who had a school-aged daughter. This lady wasn’t getting along with the daughter and would sometimes say things I felt wasn’t quite fair about a kid. It made me feel sorry for the daughter and her own mother. I thought about what happens if a relationship was failing but you wanted to make sure your child ended up with a decent stepmother?

Read more: http://christineyoungauthor.com/2015/09/24/the-replacement-wife-by-rowena-wiseman-presented-by-christine/

BooksChatter
Why should we read The Replacement Wife and what sets it apart from the rest?  What makes your book unique?
I’m hoping The Replacement Wife is a different take on the age-old story of what happens when you fall in love with a person and have to fall out with the other.  Luisa has taken a creative approach to her situation – she thinks she can avoid pain and heartbreak if she can play matchmaker and set her husband up with somebody else …

Read more: http://bookschatter.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/Q-A-replacement-wife.html

Booklover Sue
What is your favorite scene in your new release?
My favourite scene is when Luisa and her husband Luke go to a book launch for a crime writer who has written a book about dancers who have been killed. One of Luisa’s great disappointments is that Luke hasn’t danced with her since the night they first met. She’s been trying hard to set him up with another woman, but when she sees him dancing and enjoying himself at the book launch with one of the potential replacement wives, it hurts her deeply. Her understudy is performing much better than her, already.

Read more: http://bookloversue.blogspot.com.au/2015/09/the-replacement-wife-rowena-wiseman.html

Queen of the Night Reviews
The Grass Is Always Greener on the Other Side
The problem with Luisa’s infactuation with Jarvis is that it’s mostly played out in her imagination and grass is always lushest in one’s mind. It’s like looking forward to a holiday; one imagines the tropical blue water surrounding the island, relaxing on the beach and beautiful sunsets. We don’t think about getting seasick on the boat on the way to the island, being bitten by mutant mosquitoes, soaked in torrential rain or having to navigate the stinky squat toilets – when in fact, it is the good and the not-so-good that makes up the whole holiday experience.

Read more: http://queenofthenightreviews.blogspot.com.au/2015/09/virtual-book-tour-giveaway-for.html

Laurie's Thoughts and Reviews
How do you react to a bad review of your book?
I appreciate every person who reviews my work. If someone has read my story and finished it, I’m thankful. If they’re passionate enough about it to actually write a review I’m blessed! Even if it’s a 1-star review, I learn so much from my readers. People have had really complex feelings about The Replacement Wife and I love that. Good art moves people, and it succeeds whether it moves them to hate or love. The more disappointing reviews are the middle of the road ones, where the reader wasn’t moved one way or another!

Read more: http://lauriethoughts-reviews.blogspot.com.au/2015/09/the-replacement-wife-by-rowena-wiseman.html

LibriAmoriMiei
Review - 4 stars
Luisa is a complicated character, it's hard to get in sympathy with her. At times is superficial, childish, irresponsible, often she performs actions really silly. It 's sad to think that both partners become again active and full of life only when they meet another person.

It 's a story well plotted and very original, beautifully written, with a style simple but brilliant.

Read more: http://libriamicimiei.blogspot.it/2015/09/review-giveaway-replacement-wife-by.html

A massive thank you to all these bloggers for hosting The Replacement Wife and to Goddess Fish Promotions and HarperCollins for organising the tour.








Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00WDN9R24
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=9781460705902
Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/the-replacement-wife-8
iBooks: https://itunes.apple.com/au/book/the-replacement-wife/id987629388

Virtual Blog Tour - The Replacement Wife

My virtual blog tour launches tomorrow! It's been a lot of fun answering questions from these fabulous bloggers. They've made me think about romantic tropes, why women think the grass is always greener on the other side and whether I'd prefer a Navy SEAL or a cowboy ... You can see my responses on these dates, in these places:
September 21: BooksChatterSeptember 22: Queen of the Night Reviews
September 23: Booklover SueSeptember 24: Laurie's Thoughts and ReviewsSeptember 24: Christine YoungSeptember 25: LibriAmoriMiei - review onlySeptember 28: Erin Cawood - review onlySeptember 28: JbiggarblogSeptember 29: Romance Readers ClubSeptember 29: Harps Romance Book ReviewSeptember 30: Dena Garson - Real... Hot... RomanceOctober 1: Rachel Brimble RomanceOctober 2: Archaeolibrarian - I dig good books!
A massive thank you to all these bloggers for hosting The Replacement Wife on their blogs and to Goddess Fish Promotions and HarperCollins for organising the tour.








Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00WDN9R24
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=9781460705902
Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/the-replacement-wife-8
iBooks: https://itunes.apple.com/au/book/the-replacement-wife/id987629388

Why writers love book bloggers

For a long time I've adored the line from A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, 'I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.' Lately, I've realised book bloggers are a bunch of very kind strangers. They are friendly, articulate and passionate and they are motivated by sharing the joy of reading with others. It is altruism at it's very best.

I know how much time it takes to write a meaningful book review, or to write a blog post and add some links and images, and how long it takes to build a following for a blog, so I am so grateful when one of these influential readers takes a look at my novel The Replacement Wife. 


One YA author, Andy Robb, recently founded the UKYA blogger awards to give back to the blogging community that gives so much to the writing and publishing community. In his Love Letter to YA book bloggers in The Guardian he says:


... there’s the community aspect. I don’t think I’ve ever come across a bunch of folk who, even though they may not have met each other in the flesh, embody the word so perfectly. You share thoughts, share books and support each other. More than that, you even let authors join in, giving us a big, communal cyber-shoulder to lean on. There are more than a few authors I know of who’ve openly admitted that, if it wasn’t for this virtual foster family, they would’ve thrown in the towel.


Here's a roundup of some of the coverage The Replacement Wife has received from wonderful bloggers so far ...


Bookaholic Confessions - 5 star review
a serious, sobering and thought-provoking story ... a painfully real read with flawed characters and plenty of heartbreak.


Raven Haired Girl 
Wiseman delivers an emotional read with severely flawed characters dealing with an uncomfortable topic ... Wiseman is a talented authoress, she pulled me into her story forcing me to play the role of armchair friend, foe, and marriage counselor, sign of a more than gifted writer.


Chicklit Club 
It’s an interesting, well-written story with a ‘careful what you wish for’ moral. It will no doubt divide readers because of its subject matter – but I think it’s well worth a read if you keep an open mind.


Maldivian Book Reviewer's Realm of Romance  I liked the story for its ability to make me think. Think hard. About life choices, about how much work it is to actually keep any relationship, let alone a marriage alive, especially after kids enter the picture ... Honest and at times brutal in its depiction, digs deep into why we stray when we stray.


Living Life with Joy  
It’s an interesting and entertaining process, watching Luisa try to play match maker for her husband. 

HeySaidRenee ... there were moments that made me giggle, such as when she screened out a potential replacement wife on the grounds that she had a thermomix - run from the thermomix!

HarperCollins have organised a blog tour for The Replacement Wife from 21 September - 2 October. I'll post a list of the stops on my blog soon so readers can follow!







Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00WDN9R24
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=9781460705902
Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/the-replacement-wife-8
iBooks: https://itunes.apple.com/au/book/the-replacement-wife/id987629388

Enter Giveaway to win a copy of The Replacement Wife

To celebrate the release of my novel The Replacement Wife I’m giving away a copy to one lucky winner! Enter the Giveaway below for a chance to win a digital copy of The Replacement Wife (HarperCollins ebook). Complete the giveaway form by liking my author page on Facebook. Ends 19/9/15.

About The Replacement Wife:


Luisa has met the love of her life ... now she just needs to figure out what to do with her husband.


Luisa has fallen madly in love with sculptor Jarvis, so she comes up with a plan to find a new wife for her husband Luke so she can exit stage left. She wants to screen potential stepmothers for her 8-year-old son Max and has strict criteria: the woman must be a single mother; have no more than two children; she can't be authoritarian; she must be creative, nurturing and not much prettier than Luisa.


After a few carefully orchestrated meetings with different women that fail to raise a spark, Luke finally connects with a potential replacement wife. However, Luisa isn't prepared for the fact that Luke's interest in the other woman makes him a better man and a more attractive husband. After suffering for years in a half-dead marriage, Luisa starts to remember what it was about Luke that she originally fell in love with. But is it too late?


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The Replacement Wife is released

My novel The Replacement Wife is now released and available as an ebook ( HarperCollins Impulse ). Now comes the fun part ... I get to hear what other people think about the novel! The relationship between a book and a reader is like a series of uncertain blind dates ... sometimes a book and a reader are incompatible, but every now and again a book finds a good match. This week I feel blessed to have received an insightful and contemplative review of The Replacement Wife - this reader has gone above and beyond the role of reviewer, P.J.'s  reflections on my novel deserve 5 stars and I want to share them here ...

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina


With all due respect to Tolstoy and his classic, I disagree with that. Although details of interactions and incidents are undoubtedly unique, I suspect that unhappy families share a common set of traits, and happy ones have adapted those traits to be more resilient. I also believe that happy families and unhappy families are generally the same families, but just in different places in terms of length of relationship, stages of life, external pressures, internal crises, and plain dumb luck.


One likes to think that it’s the strength of the underlying love in a relationship that makes it work. But more likely, the difference between being happy and unhappy at any given point depends upon how willing and able each is to set their own points of views aside so that they can shift roles, patterns and perspectives. Come to think of it, maybe the willingness and ability to set one’s perspective aside for the other is what love is, as opposed to infatuation or a need for comfort and security. I’ll leave that for others to ponder, and try to get this book review closer to actually addressing the book.


Without consciously deciding to, I’ve read several books this year involving unhappy marriages, and have been a supportive listener (I hope) to several friends facing breakups of long-term relationships. What I’ve taken from all of them is admirably illustrated in The Replacement Wife: when we are describing our roles in long-term relationships that are at their make/break points, we are unreliable. No matter how good we are in other points and crises of our lives, this need to fracture off a deeply integrated part of our identity makes us choose between facing ourselves and shortcomings, or finding ways to project them onto the other person. And if we feel guilty about the latter, we try to assuage our guilt at the unconscious character assassination by trying to find a way to let our conscience off the hook.


So now, enter Luisa of Rowena Wiseman’s The Replacement Wife. As other ARC reviewers have noted, Luisa is an unreliable narrator. We’re introduced to her sudden and intense infatuation with Jarvis, a sculptor, at the very beginning but without any descriptions or narration for readers to sympathize. It’s given to us in almost fairy tale / mythic device form, or even perhaps like a given for a math problem. (Let X = Jarvis, who is to represent Luisa’s ideals of contributing something creative to the world at a point in her life when she’s unconsciously weary of editing work she can’t respect and being a homemaker/caretaker for a husband and son who are evolving out of the needs for one.)


I’ve read Wiseman’s Searching for Von Honningsbergs and Bequest, so I guessed from the beginning that the way the characters were rendered was deliberate. Wiseman likely is conveying what I was bumbling through in my introductory paragraphs. Luisa is trying to be a good person in her own way, but she’s seriously flawed. She lacks self-awareness of what’s happening within her, and she treats others the way she feels they should be treated, but without checking with them to see if it’s really what they want. She leaps into plans and actions based on her flawed ideas without attempting to check them for validity, or even to be fair to them.


She’s not evil in the sense that she’s trying to be deliberately cruel as she disrupts lives, but one struggles to like her. And that, I think, is the point. She wants to be what she sees as a noble heroine in this conundrum she’s in, but the fact that she’s in the conundrum is likely due to the same lack of perspective and respect that she’s using to get out of it. I think it plausible that any of us in long-term relationships that have become a core part of our lives and sense of self have, at one time or another, become unreliable narrators of that relationship when describing it to others (or even to ourselves). We flatten out or expand the other’s personality depending upon how happy or hurt we are by them. If we’re fair and resilient, we work through it. If we can’t, if the Other in our relationship story is seen negatively, it’s a pretty safe bet that the relationship is in trouble and if we’re responsible, we’d start with ourselves to see our role in the downhill dance. Luisa is meant to represent what happens when we don’t want to face ourselves, and would rather pursue the wild thoughts that most of us have had from time to time to simply get out. This means, keeping the blame and flaws on the other, and dreaming up exit strategies. And so Luke, Luisa’s husband, becomes a gray sweatpants-wearing bland entity in front of the TV when she calls him to mind. And instead of using her present unhappiness to think about going in a new direction in terms of career, or taking a risk of writing herself or something else creative, or using her restlessness with her present life to find out where her own happiness and the world’s needs intersect to redirect her energy to something that might make a positive difference, she decides to find another wife for her husband so that the marriage can end, and she can pursue her sculptor and live out her desire for an artistic life through his work.


One wonders why she has such energy to manage the lives of others when the goal is really to be a passive and vicarious supporter of work she doesn’t even like. This is the genius of Wiseman, giving us sly hints without seeming to take the narration away from Luisa. There are several points in the book where author and reader can give winks, nods, and nudges to each other beyond Luisa’s frenetic delusions. I see that some early reviewers didn’t like the book because Luisa’s actions frustrated them and the other characters didn’t seem much better. I shared that frustration with them, but I think I liked this book better than others that deal with unreliable narrators because I could tell from Wiseman’s subtle tips of the hand that a larger cautionary tale was unfolding. And indeed, it did.


I don’t want to make it seem like this is a heavy Anna Karenina kind of read. It’s not, though some of the themes and elements are similar. For all of the seriousness of the topics, it reads fast and the writing is good. This is not a story where you can expect to bond with the characters or cheer their decisions. Luisa keeps a distance between us and those in her life that she wants to discount, but there’s still occasionally the opportunity to smile and sympathize here and there. I would recommend this book most for those who are feeling frustrated in a relationship. If you can sympathize with her need to exit stage left with the least amount of collateral damage, but understand the impossibility of this in real life, this may well be a nice vicarious escape. Likewise, if you can appreciate cautionary tales where the protagonist’s crisis is linked to his/her own hubris and must deal with logical consequences of it, it’s a nicely done modern reworking of that.


And finally, since I began with calling a Tolstoy quote into question, let me end with one that I can affirm. It’s likely as true a starting place for changing unhappy relationships as to problems in the world:


“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
Leo Tolstoy






Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00WDN9R24
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=9781460705902
Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/the-replacement-wife-8
iBooks: https://itunes.apple.com/au/book/the-replacement-wife/id987629388

P.J's review on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1342550744

Jet Black Publishing Kickstarter Campaign

Jet Black Publishing, publisher of my Aunty Arty and the Disquieting Muses children's book, has launched a Kickstarter campaign. They are hoping to raise funds from generous people who believe in the value of children's books ...

So far, their list has included picture ebooks such as:


Tilly and the Tooth Fairy
The Day Jake Robertson Ran Out of Hugs
Why Won't Anyone Play With Me? 


Now they want to turn their ebooks into print and 50% of the printed books from funds raised will go to schools, libraries, childcare facilities, galleries and media outlets.


Support their Kickstarter campaign here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1208819366/jet-black-publishing-launch-phase-1


“It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.” 
― Mother Teresa