I’m writing this blog post as a sort of marker on my writingprogress.

A lot of fun was had writing and illustrating the Lollo andSnollo series of children’s books. It is kind of weird how a person can becomefond of completely imaginary characters and start to wish them well. However,that’s where I’m at. The bear cubs and their friends must live on!

While the writing and illustrating and putting on Amazon ofthe series went well, the sales side has been somewhat dismal. In order to keeppouring time and effort into the stories I need to make a return, even if it isminimal.

So the next step has been to turn the books intoread-throughs. I’ve narrated them myself (hopefully my goofy South Africanaccent doesn’t put people off) and learned to use Adobe Premiere so that thesound and illustrations could be joined in a video track.

The videos will initially start out of narrative sequence,with the mini-stories being converted to read-throughs, since they are easierand less lengthy. A good channel name for Youtube etc is Reading Aloud withLollo and Snollo. Well, maybe.

Assuming some sort of positive reaction I may go and do theactual books 1-6 in sequence too. The idea is to link back to the ebook onAmazon and perhaps generate sales that way. I’m going to try to start thechannels today.

Up to now I’ve been kinda naughty and have been buying artsupplies with the excuse that “it’s for the books”. There are a range ofwatercolours, pencils, chalks, fine brushes and pastels begging to be used. There’sa whole box of Rosa Gallery watercolours and another box of multi-coloured Diamineinks champing at the bit. Let’s see if I can make that excuse for buying theminto a reality J