Very exciting news!
PageTurners series 4 has arrived.
Anne Dunn, Chris Malakar and Moira Hanrahan have done it again, produced a delightful collection of funny and engaging stories for beginning adult readers all around the world.
My personal favourite stories in the new series 4 are:
- Can you read this? – about a woman returning to learning,
- Tooth Fairy – about a woman in a retirement home who loves to be helpful, and
- Red Dog – a true story about a wandering dog in Western Australia.
The fun part for me is that i got to do the layout on one of the books this time, which means learning about scanning images for print (black and white not greyscale, i discovered after the first draft). Yes i got to publish Moira’s book about the Tooth Fairy, which is hilarious!
i’m also working on editing the website and the audio books, which will be up next week sometime. (update: 16 March finally got audio for Red Dog online).
The style sheets on the website need some tweaking because it’s all a bit grey at the moment, whereas the books themselves are very lively and colourful.
i always forget how finicky and time-consuming the whole web development thing can be, when you’re editing css style sheets, php includes, Dreamweaver templates etc etc, and constantly uploading and re-uploading to try and get things exactly right. But the perfectionist in me loves that repetitious kind of thoroughness. i bet there’s a few mistakes in there still.
We also need a shopping cart of some kind, because it’s ridiculous asking people to print and fax pdf documents in this day and age! It’s the shopping cart that could be most challenging i think, although there are plenty of open source options around.
Anne’s keen to have a blog on the site for regular updates, so we’ve installed wordpress.. but haven’t published that section to the world