After a year of painting, writing, designing and hustling… Rebecca and I have successfully self published our first book!  A very exciting and rewarding journey.  We learned a lot and know this is just the beginning of our book-making-lives.  To get catalogued and recieve an ISBN# as self publishers, we had to start www.zakbooks.com, our publishing company.  This book is being sold online at www.cutestfacebook.com, hardcover for $15 CAD. We have a strong marketing plan and cannot wait to receive the rest of the books in June 2010 when the boat comes in.  We worked with an amazing printer in Singapore, TWP, who had incredible customer service and held our hand through the whole process. Big thanks to Matt and Mike at TWP New York and Singapore.

We also got an excellent endorsement from Eric Walters, an award winning childrens author who has written 80+ books.  We gave him a copy of the book when we got the advanced copied shipped. Great Guy. Thanks Eric.  (Eric is the guy who started the ‘Terry Fox Run’ in all the schools… amoung other things)

“Beautifully illustrated, showing the richest of diversity that makes Canadian classes so special.” -Eric Walters

The Cutest Face is targetted toward school boards and fits directly with their goal of promoting multiculturalism in the classrooms.  We have selected a great market and hope to get copies into every library.

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Here are some photos from one of our book signings in Chapters!  exciting (click to enlarge)

Here’s to many sales and many more books! (*holds glass of foamy beer in the air)

If you have a book idea, let’s chat about it!

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