Yay! Many thanks to all this who have supported my Scaredy Cats KickStarter Campaign which is now completely funded in just 2 days!
If you are wondering what it’s all about or want to get a copy of the book, plus the extra goodies, click here!
Once again, many thanks – I’m thrilled 🙂
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Scaredy Cats is a new compilation of eight of my Scaredy Cats stories plus one extra that never made it into the final mix, that I recently found on my hard drive.
The audio book will have yet another story that I quite forgot that I’d written for this series.
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If you can’t wait, have a look at my Kickstarter page to see the various levels of awards on offer with the publication of Scaredy Cats. Good luck and I hope I’ll be sending your prize out soon.
I am relaunching my Scaredy Cats KickStarter project see it here – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shoorayner/scaredy-cats-funny-scary-stories-for-children
One thing that bothered me, once I had launched previously, was the cover. I loved it, but after a while I realised that it was probably not the right cover. The style of the cat on the front of the book, did not fit with the illustrations inside.
Publishers often recover books with different styles, but I thought maybe it was also a bit too sophisticated for the age group the books are intended for and said something different to what was inside.
So I spent some time trying to do a watercolour version, but couldn’t get that right. In the end I decided to do a hybrid. Take the elements I loved about the first cover and add them to a physically drawn version.
The moral of the tale is that the first drawing is not necessarily the finished version. You can keep tweaking the design and a little time and distance is good – allowing you to see the design with free eyes.