I just received the ISBN's for the spiral bound and PDF versions of The Any Yarn, Any Size Knit Hat Book (2nd Expanded Edition). I'm so excited!

You'd think that writing a book stops when you've finished the writing but there's a lot more involved when you decide to self publish.

Even after knitting a couple of hundred hats, working out the equations needed to write the patterns in 17 sizes, writing patterns that people who hate maths can happily use, taking lots of photos, laying out the book and creating the initial pdf file to give the printer there's still more to do!

• Buy ISBN's


• Apply for cataloguing in publication data (so the libraries know about your book and what the Dewey decimal classification number is)


• Upload new pdf files with CIP data in place


• Check pdf download version & OK for sale if it's the way I want it


• Check sample printed copy (I have to buy mine from Lulu.com in the US so that adds waiting time)


• OK the book for publication so you can buy it (if the sample copy is the way I want it)


• Buy four more copies and send to the national library, state library, NSW university library and Sydney university library. It's Australian law that I have to send copies to all of these libraries. (You won't find the first edition in the NSW libraries as I lived in Victoria when I published that so it's in the Victorian state library)


• Buy more copies for review


• Find people who want to review it and send them copies!

I'm currently waiting for my cataloguing in publication data (up to 10 days) and then I'll purchase my sample copy. No doubt I will go squeeeeee all over the place when I see the first printed copy :)

If you have a podcast, a popular blog or publish a magazine (online or print) and would like a review copy please let me know your postal address and I'll post them out as soon as I get them.