NEW BOOKS PUBLISHED SINCE OUR LAST UPDATE
We have now published 37 children books including these new titles added since my last update:

• Bartholomew the Bragging Bullfrog written and illustrated by Thomas J. Bradley. We are delighted to welcome Thomas J. Bradley to Sharing-Books. This is the first of two books Thomas published with us. Bartholomew the Bragging Bullfrog is an endearing story of a big bullfrog’s journey to meet new and different animal friends, but instead returns home with valuable lesson learned. This is an 18 pages picture book.

• High, Low, Over & Under written and illustrated by Thomas J. Bradley. High, Low, Over & Under is humorous story about a forgetful owl’s search for his missing eye glasses. All of us who wear reader’s glasses will smile when reading this story. This is an 18 pages picture book.

• Corn-zee-pop Treats written and illustrated by Eleanor Aspin. This is the latest contribution by Eleanor. This is a whimsical, humorous story of a spoiled girl who has a craving for a favourite treat, and learns how to change bad behaviour in order to receive it. All of us who have been finicky eater or had children who were picky eaters will relate. This is a 17 pages picture book.

• Edward Lear's Nonsense Songs. The parent of nonsense writing, Edward Lear presents another instalment of silly rhymes in Nonsense Songs. You may already be familiar with "The Owl and the Pussycat", and "The Duck and the Kangaroo". However, be sure to read "The Nutcrackers and the Sugar-tongs" as it will answer any questions you are asked by the imaginative ones in your midst who are wondering what exactly table utensils do when no one is looking. This book was published by Roberts Brothers, Boston, 1892. 36 pages illustrated with sketches. Our classics team continues to acquire and scan gems for the enjoyment of those of us who remember them and for the inspiration of new authors.

• Too Many Legs written by Anthony Flavell and illustrated by his niece Kirsty Bouri. This latest contribution by Anthony is a poem about his arachnophobia sister's rather exaggerated view of the world of spiders. This book will please arachnophiles. The very creative illustrations show that Kirsty’s talent is very promising. This is a 24 pages picture book.

• Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Jeremy Fisher. As a writer and illustrator of children's books, Beatrix Potter needs no introduction. In The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, readers can follow the adventures of a rather unusual fisherman as he prepares for a meal with his equally unusual friends. Published in 1906, this book went on to become a classic and funds from this series went on to fund the protection of a picturesque area in England known as the Lake District. This little gem was acquired in a garage sale. This is a 56 pages picture book.

• The Soxies written by Simon Dorey and illustrated by Megan Parker. Where does that missing sock or stocking go? The Soxies know! Why do they take them? Read on and find out! This is a 15 pages picture book. This is a special book for me. At the very early stage of Sharing-Books, I had phoned Simon to help us with our business model. At the time he revealed to me that he had written several children books. This was a surprise coming from my blue suited finance expert and Chartered Accountant friend. This book will demonstrate that some accountants are creative in very healthy and positive ways... Megan Parker’s beautiful illustrations will make all readers smile and complement very well Simon’s text.

• Thomas J. Bradley web site has been added to our list of authors recommended web site lists. We look forward to more books by Thomas being added to Sharing-Books. Thomas is from Nepean, Ontario, Canada.

• Niina Chebry, of Vancouver, BC, Canada has held a very successful exhibition of 35 paintings that will soon be the core of a new Shared-Book. We are documenting the process of creating her new book on our blog. So check our blog regularly for updates or subscribe to RSS on the “Web 2.0 ghetto” section of the blog.

• Jennifer R. Poulter, from Australia, has become a valuable friend and advocate for Sharing-Books. Jennifer is an award winning author with 10 published books so far. Jennifer has provided us with valuable input for the development of Sharing-Books and we are thankful for connecting with Jennifer through JacketFlap.com, the site we recommend to authors and illustrators looking for colleagues to collaborate on children’s books projects.

• Lucas Spata, from Vancouver, BC, Canada has launched www.lucasspata.com to support his personal efforts to help children facing the challenges of cancer therapy. Lucas is well qualified to understand the hardships as he is himself a cancer survivor. Lucas has been an inspiration to all of us at Sharing-Books. He has been an active supporter who captured well on his site what it feels like to be a new writer and how Sharing-Books helps. Lucas created a foundation that will receive his royalties. Lucas has been with the Vancouver Canucks organization for a number of years and it is great to see the team support Lucas’ initiative. Lucas has been interviewed about his project on The Daily (Channel 10 in Vancouver). The interview is scheduled to air several times on December 10th.

• If you have been on the web site recently, you will notice that over 1,100 books have been downloaded. Passing 1,000 was an exciting symbolic milestone for us. (We discovered that we did not program the comma on the total displayed ) We have had visitors from 40 countries so far. Our traffic is building steadily still only on a referral/viral basis as we have yet to do any promotion, which is confirming out intuition as to the value we deliver to our users. On average, our visitors spend twice as long on the site and see twice as many pages per visit compared to the sites that Google analytics benchmarks with Sharing-Books.

• The Donation button is live and although we are very conservative in our revenue from donations expectation, we are delighted that we will start paying our authors with their first royalties in January. As we say in the tech development world, we are now “post-revenue” which is a good place to be. Of course we invite you all to donate and to suggest the same to your friends and family.

• Our technical team is currently improving the architecture of the back-end of the site, cleaning up details that will not show up on the site but that are nonetheless important for the site’s speed and reliability.

• The next visible change coming to the site will be the Sharing-Businesses button and page(s) which will feature the companies that are/will offer affiliate programs. If you know of any company that would value reaching our audience, please let us know and provide us with contacts details. Your referrals will be much appreciated.