The most frustrating part of publishing is waiting for the finished books to come back from the printer!  The Dragons of Pan Gu should arrive any day now.
In the mean time, Rex had a baby boy!  Now we have to see what this does to his illustration time.  I keep thinking about how much work we could get done if we didn't have day jobs as well...
Rex is working with a wonderful artist from Kendall College to get our first chapter book published in July.
I am working with some self-published picture book authors to include in our special-marketing catalog in 2014.
One thing I would like help with myself: What is the best/easiest way to take an existing picture book and convert it to an ebook for Amazon and B&N? I'll take any help I can get.
I also want to point out that Chasing Watermelons got a wonderful review in Publishers Weekly.

Chasing Watermelons is officially for sale at this site and at Amazon. I don't know what's wrong with Barnes and Noble, but I wish they'd get it together so we could sell through them as well.   Personally, I'd prefer you bought it from me here so I don't have to give Amazon their huge percentage...
We used Kickstarter.com to help us fund the printing costs of "Chasing Watermelons". It was an interesting experience. We had to try twice. The first time, our video focused on giving the whole first part of the book, so people could see that the writing and illustrations were both good. They didn't care, and the project did not succeed. The second time, we talked more about ourselves and our plans, and only gave a snippet from the book, and the project was successfully funded (with some help). We'll use Kickstarter again in the future, and continue to experiment with how to influence people to support quality books for children.
Now it's time to send copies to reviewers, find holiday sale opportunities, promote for school presentations, register with the Library of Congress, etc..

I'd like people's opinion...
I'm considering making the books available as eBooks. Cheap. A dollar or less. I'm hoping that people who enjoy the book in that format may buy the hard cover as well. At the least, I hope it will grow our name recognition. Considering that an eBook costs nothing to produce (if I can figure it our myself), is this a good idea?