Published!

Well it has happened. George’s Christmas Wish is being published.

Ethan had an idea for a story when he was around 9 years old. He asked me to help him write it, so I helped him put his ideas down and then helped him arrange his story ideas into a full story. We thought it was a very cute story and were hoping to have someone draw the pictures for it. 12 years later we still had no drawings.
I figured when he went to college for animation and was taking all the drawing classes that he would start, but between work and school assignments it never came to be.

Then Jordan surprised me with a manila envelope addressed simply “For that home worker (that means Dad)” 

I opened it up to find several sketches that Jordan had drawn just from memory of having Ethan and I talk about the story. I fit the pictures into the story and had him draw a few more. We liked it and we scanned the pictures into the computer and he colored them in and Ethan put some finishing touches on them. We had a nice Word Document that looked like it would be a fun thing to hand out.

Then I looked online for information on how to get this printed out in book format. On one site I put my email address and phone number to get information… that led to an amazing process and quite by accident initially, we ended up with a published work.

Paperback will be available soon for order online and an eBook format is also going to be available for direct purchase from the publisher, from Amazon, and other online bookstores. I will post the complete list of locations when I receive them.

So Ethan is a published author, I am co-author, and Jordan has his first published illustration work.

AMAZING!

OK I am not a salesman and I am not saying you have to buy, but I and my publishing company would like to let you know that 
Preorders of the paperback are available at xLibris.com
http://bookstore.xlibris.com/Products/SKU-0116366017/Georges-Christmas-Wish.aspx