The first edition of my book about the Frisian folk hero Grutte Pier (Pierius Magnus / Pier the Great) sold about 700 copies. It has been my best-selling title so far (although I must confess I had hoped to sell at least a thousand copies).

A Dutch organisation for reading promotion (which is also responsible for promoting books in the Frisian language) chose 'Grutte Pier: Krús fan de Hollanner' for their 2015 project. Their aim was to reach at least 500 secondary school pupils.

After some serious PR activities, we managed to interest 8 teachers of Frisian and the book is currently read by almost 1900 pupils. Obviously, this called for a second printing.

You can imagine I am one happy author and I am looking forward to visiting some of the schools in order to have some interaction with my new readership.

Here are some cool pics of the official launch of the reading project:

http://fu.edufrysk.nl/kick-off-lesbef...

And here are some of the new readers:

http://fu.edufrysk.nl/les-no-projekt-...