I'm still here.

I'm coming to the end of the Paper Engineering for Dummies book. It's been a fascinating process and one of the largest and most complex projects I've ever been involved in.
The final stage is known as Author Review. I send my completed chapters to my editor Chad and he send them back to me covered in comments. I make my changes then back they go to Chad.
It all need to be finished by Nov 4th.
Expect a flood of activity on the fp website once the book is put to bed (as we authors say.)

Piggie Pareidolia

All religions need their mystical signs. There was the Mother Teressa in a cinnamon bun and the Mary in a bit of toast. Now, thanks to Bernard Calver, Flying Pig has its own mystical sign.
Truly a miraculous dry spot!
What does it mean!?

New Forest Animals

I was delighted to receive these New Forest Animals kits. They are based on my Agreeable Sheep model. The company who produced then had already approached me for permission which I was happy to give. Once complete they sent me the completed kits and a small consideration. Nice!

Pop Ups and Paper Enginnering for Dummies

Coming soon! Pop Ups and Paper Engineering for Dummies. I'm working on this at the moment, it'll be out next March. I'm about half way through the writing and I think it'll be a good 'un. You can pre-order your copy now! Amzn UK Amzn USA

More on Sales Rank

Long tail or no long tail. Sales rank for Gizmos on the B&N site is now 676! Woo hoo!

Sales rank

When I looked at Gizmos on the B&N site yesterday it was ranked 179543th. Today it is up to 106856! I've moved up over 70 thousand places! Now, I've read the long tail and I know that that could just mean that I've sold one copy and the other 70k have sold none, but 70 thousand place! 70 thousand!
I'm taking a moment to bask in the numbers :-)

Gizmos now available!

Gizmos is now available to order from the Barnes and Noble website.
Gizmos has a 144 page book with info on making paper animations and instructions for the six models.

It says "Usually ships within 24 hours." Time to order your copy!
More info here.