Book donated to my hometown Library

I donated My book to the Library in Hardisty, as this was My hometown I thought it would be good place to start with .. it takes about 6 weeks Billi-jo said to get it registered with the Library.. the shipment for My order of books will be in port in Vancouver the 29th of April they say then have to clear customs and sorting. I am going to aim for having the books here sometime the week of May 12th - 16th hopefully... So will be coming down to Hardisty with all the preorders, then down to Calgary as I have a few needed that way too... so then I will be posting where I will be I am planning a book launch in Camrose at the Cobblers store on Mainstreet will post when I know the date..

The book was written the night Surai was born

I finally got my books to Rochelle, Kelly,Haylee and TaraLynn . I was able to show the book to Surai (My great niece, whom was the inspiration for the book)... Surai just turned 6 this year and she has twin brothers Beckett and Griffin who are 4.5 years old. The night Surai was born I thought of all the things my Brother Jeff would be missing as he passed away two years before, I thought of many things about Surai and what he may have done if he could have been here...
I was able to finally finish this book this year finishing all the illustrations and making the poems suit the theme.. here is a look at the kids getting a look at the book that was written for them.

                                                                        Beckett

                                                                          Surai

                                                                             Griffin

I got my first books by AIRMAIL

Well the first 25 preview books for Family arrived by  express airmail this week and I was so excited I did a happy dance.. Everyone is asking when they can get a book , the Boat left China and will be 27 days at sea I was told.  Then from there they have to Port in Vancouver and be inspected ,go through customs and get declared. they will be sorted in a warehouse from all the other items in the same container. then My freight shipping company will load then onto a truck and they will make their long journey trough the Rockey mountains to Camrose where they will then be unloaded and brought home to My house.. so I am hoping the first part of May  I will keep you all posted on here and facebook when they will be here.

I took Heather a couple books for her and the kids, when they all got home from school she read it to them . They seamed to enjoy the story and picked out little things in the book. they liked the haircut page..and were excited when I showed them their names in the book...Kale was also excited that so many kids would get to see this book ... Cruz jumped around he was excited for this special book.. Kyra was happy that I was going to be going into her class the next day to read the book to her classmates

Kyra's grade one class is learning all about Authors and illustrators, they are writing their own books and I was the first live Author in their classroom, they listened to the story and laughed at the funny parts. they then asked me some real good questions about the book.. it was a good experiance and I was able to fall upon my days working as a Teachers Aide in class and having to read stories in front of kids. I am usually very nervous speaking in front of lots of people but My hand only shook a little when turning the pages...Kyra was pointing out to all the kids in her class where her name is at the back of the book

So I got a email this morning with photos of my completed books, they are still not quite ready to ship, I was wondering what all the colorful paper is sticking out of them for? I then assumed it is something they do when binding them... who am I to question there technique as to how they do things.
So now they have requested the final amount owing ..... I sure hope our dollar did not go down ... down .... down ... over night against the US dollar as that is what they like to get paid in over in China..
   The next step is to pay my final bill and they will take all those colorful papers out .. I hope and then pack up my books and ship them to me ... sailing  sailing over the ocean blue... I have them shipping me a few books by air to get out to my family before the rest arrive... hope they arrive next week...

they send you pictures of your books so that you know that you really have a order before you make your final payment..I am soooo excited with how they look so far... it looks like a real book PINOCCHIO comes to mind here.. as I feel a bit like Geppetto when he made his puppet, when I got the sample in the mail to check over .... now it has become a real book....