These are your kids on books.
We like books. And burningthroughpages.org seems like a pretty great organization.
We like books. And burningthroughpages.org seems like a pretty great organization.
I’ll admit, Pinterest started out as a bit of a mystery to me. I came up in the world of pre-Tumblr blogs where people wrote about original things, from their own heads, with their own images. Using words and lots of them. An occasional picture was a nice accompaniment, but it wasn’t the main thrust…
Yesterday we voice recorded two of our storybook apps – “A Shark Knocked on the Door” and “Maggie Is Afraid of Monsters”. We were super lucky to find two fantastic voice actors – a boy named Donovan for Shark, and Jessica Rau (@JessicaRauVoice) who narrated Maggie and a few more voices and “efforts” (vocal sound…
We have four days to go on our Kickstarter — kck.st/1ndnZY1 — and we’re biting our nails a little! People have been generous and awesome with their pledges and with sharing on facebook and twitter, but we still need almost $3000 before we can call it a success and start fulfilling rewards. That’s one of…
Sometimes when you’re doing creative things, whether it’s writing a book or a play or designing a product you think will solve people’s problems, what might be very clear to you about what you’re doing is often not so clear to others. Just so that doesn’t happen with our storybook apps, I thought I’d…
Last week I wrote a post about interactive storybook apps, what that means and what they are, after realizing that not everybody was familiar with them. Now I’d like to talk about Kickstarter and crowdfunding for the same reason. We’ve been so focused on getting ready for our Kickstarter campaign that we’ve neglected to realize…
Many, many (many, many) different things go into the making of an app, and in the last entry I started off talking about writing, and so next I should probably get into programming, or illustrators, or funding. But I won’t yet. Because there’s something that’s just as important – maybe even more important – as…