Hello and welcome to design and business conversations for creatives, I'm Cheyney
and today, I'm sharing with you, my very newly, freshly, published book: 'Thank you
for feeding Freckle'. So it's finally arrived. This is legitimately the first
time that I've ever seen it. Loads of people have been sending me pictures and
videos of their little ones with 'Thank you for feeding Freckle' and I have had
to (mmm, what's the word?) restrain myself from looking at those images. I've seen
the images but I haven't watched the videos because I really wanted to
experience this book when I had a moment to sit down and I also wanted to
document it. I think it's really important to share my excitement, and yeah!
Let's have a look. Craft knife! Okay this has been such a long journey, I've waited for
so long for this. Oh wow! Here it is. The box just fell. Here it is, this is my book 'Thank you for
feeding Freckle'. So straight away, um, I am super stoked about the cover, it's,
it's really, really nice. I thought it was going to be shinier than this, but it isn't,
i's matte, which I really, really like. Oh my gosh, I'm, I'm shaking. I'll just read you the
back, it says: "Please take care of Freckle the cat. This interactive book is filled
with fun flaps and powered by imaginative play. For the littlest cat
lovers". This is little Freckle poking up the front and then
Freckle's tail. Gives you a little bit of an idea of what's inside. Um, press here to
begin. So straight away, says this book is interactive. This book is suitable for
children between two and six. Um, and was published by Five Mile in Melbourne,
Australia. So those of you who watch my videos, you might know that I'm in New
Zealand. Officially a New Zealand published Author/Illustrator.
Oh gorgeous, beautiful the first page is just a little intro so you get a
little idea of what the graphics are going to be like inside. The imprint page.
Text and art copyright by Cheyney McDonnell 2020, boom! So excited! So, love
to all my family and friends, to cat lovers young and old, this book is for
you. This is where I plan on signing. So good. The print quality is amazing. It is
definitely so far exceeded my expectations and print quality and
like, sturdiness. This retails for under 20 bucks, but it doesn't feel like that.
It feels like way more. I'm so stoked. Little sneak peek. I'm coming up to the page with the
first peekaboo flap. So I haven't seen this in print, I mean obviously I did the
artwork so I knew it was coming. Ah to see it function. So cool. I'm not
going to show it all because I don't want to spoil it. I want to wait for you to get
your copy and experience it too, So cool.
It feels so weird, this is so surreal. And to do it on camera as well and not
share the experience, like physically, is kind of weird but I just have to
document this moment, this is huge for me. So having something to look back on
later, um, on my first published book, it's gonna be really exciting. So this one
here encourages the child to get closer to the page. So
you know, just going to simulate that on the camera.
Hopefully it's focusing. I've had issues in this spot before. Oh, I'm shaking.
Oh, and that's the end. So second to last end page, and then, good night
Oh wow, they do this on YouTube. I
don't know if that helps. Oh, so here it is! Here it is! it's in New
Zealand it's available. It's available at the moment on Booktopia, which I'll link
below, and a couple of other websites which I'll also link below. So I have
written a blog post more about this book which I'll also link below. In that blog
post I outline my inspiration behind writing the book and goes into a little
bit of the process, and who the book is targeted to as well. So long story short
it's I created this book with the younger version of myself and mind, so a
little Cheyney, and, I've had a few difficulties in my
lifetime with reading. So I share that over on the blog, so please go and look
at that. If you're in New Zealand, the book is available at Whitcoulls from the
27th of August. Ah, you might be able to pre-order on the website, so i'll also
post that link below. I believe that Whitcoulls and some of the other sites also
ship internationally. So if you're watching this from anywhere around the
world and you would like to purchase yourself a copy of my new book: 'Thank
you for feeding Freckle'. Check out the Whitcoulls link, and I believe eBay might ship
internationally as well. If you would like to see Freckle updates please go
ahead and follow me on Instagram and Facebook with the handle @designbycheyney
'Thank you for feeding Freckle' is now also on Goodreads, so if you're on
Goodreads you can check it out there and please, if you've received a copy of this
book, or you're about to receive a copy of this book, and you love it, please go
ahead and give it a review. Reviews are huge for a debut author. Thank you so
much for watching this video and sharing this experience with me. I am over the
moon with excitement and if you're a client of mine, I apologise
if my emails haven't been making sense lately because I am just so full of
energy and so excited, and celebrating every single day, and plan to do so for
the next few weeks. If you like this video please give it a thumbs up or
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bye!