Board Game Day was originally a rhyming verse I wrote for my twin toddlers as a way to share my love of board games with them. But then I decided to make it into a fully illustrated children’s book and share it with other parents! It is now on Kickstarter through mid-August, so you can
I got sample books from Star Print Brokers, one of the printers I’m looking at for Board Game Day, a while ago. I had always thought that matte finish was less durable than gloss finish, but since I now had one of each book to test out, I decided to do some experiments with the
There’s a lot of overlap in writing lyrics to a song and lyrics to a rhyming children’s book, which is the reason I decided to make a book. But I made songs first, and before that I made song parodies. Well, I still make both of those as well, but that was my trajectory. Over
Happy holidays everyone! I wanted to give you all a special gift for the holidays, so I made my first “book” available as a free pdf! As I mentioned in How it all started…, I initially wrote an ABC’s of Board Games with games from my collection, and then made a little laminated book for
I didn’t even try to get this book traditionally published. There are pros and cons to both traditional publishing and self publishing, but for what I wanted to make, self publishing made the most sense. Board games are a niche hobby, and children’s board games are a subset of that. So a children’s book about
