Minty Mole Media

07/27/2014

Dear Readers,

After several months of revisions and customer studies with parents and children, we are proud to finally announce the launch of our first children’s E-book, The Lonely Meatball: A Tasty Tale of Courage. For a limited time, it is available for just $1.99 on Amazon.com, so go out and buy your copy now before the price goes up! Please share this with friends and family and help us get the word out. We really hope you and your kids enjoy reading this book as much as we enjoyed writing it. We also would like to hear what you think about the book, so don’t forget to leave feedback on Amazon.com.

Go Melvin!

07/27/2014

The Lonely Meatball Goes Live! http://wp.me/p4pwOU-O

Dear Readers, After several months of revisions and customer studies with parents and children, we are proud to finally announce the launch of our first children’s E-book, The Lonely Meatball: A Tasty Tale of Courage. For a limited time, it is… [ 87 more words. ]

07/18/2014

Who is Melvin??? Everyone wants something in life. Even little meatballs. Subscribe to our wordpress blog to learn more about what makes this little guy with a big heart tick!

06/18/2014

Completing Our First Draft http://wp.me/p4pwOU-1I

We’ve finally completed our first full draft of our children’s book! After gaining some initial momentum with producing pages at about one each day or two, we ran into a few bumps in the process. Jakub had suddenly become unresponsive for several days,… [ 163 more words. ]

06/18/2014

Our First Page http://wp.me/p4pwOU-K

Having selected our artist to illustrate our book we were excited to finally kick off the project and start producing pages at a faster pace to make up for lost time. Following our deliverables input template, we provided page requirements, a conceptual…

06/18/2014

Illustrating our book http://wp.me/p4pwOU-z

When it came to illustrating our children’s book, we knew that it would be a large endeavor because of the importance of artwork in a children’s book. Again similar to the logo design we had two options – illustrate the book ourselves or outsource the… [ 621 more words. ]

06/18/2014

The Minty Mole Logo http://wp.me/p4pwOU-E

Developing the Minty Mole logo was a small project in itself from developing the name, style, graphics, font, and colors. We knew that we wanted to create a unique, fun name that was also playful catering to the children’s genre of publishing. After… [ 237 more words. ]

05/16/2014

The Ideal Page Length http://wp.me/p4pwOU-S

Now that we had begun developing our story board, this naturally begged the question of how long our book should be. Having never written a children’s book before, we didn’t know how long to make our book. And we were unsure about whether… [ 234 more words. ]

05/05/2014

The Story Board http://wp.me/p4pwOU-I

In order to start brainstorming ideas and visualize our high level story, we wanted to develop simple way to story board the book. The most basic method was to start by rough sketching each scene, even if using stick figures, with a description of the… [ 135 more words. ]

04/20/2014

Choosing your Audience http://wp.me/p4pwOU-Q

In writing a children’s book, we realized that we had two types of audiences, children and parents. Our goal was to delight children with a wonderfully funny and adventurous story and colorful, unique illustrations. We also wanted to develop a story… [ 315 more words. ]

04/19/2014

The Minty Mole project is under way. Check out our blog at http://mintymole.wordpress.com/ for more details!

A Journy through Self-Publishing