Keeping the hamster wheel spinning at a crazy speed, we have just gone to print with our first illustrated children’s book, Santa’s New Helpers. This is book 1 in Max Hoppe and Theresa Hardman’s new Tales from the Waterhole series, which we will be rolling out in future. We are particularly thrilled that it will be coming out in 3 languages, namely English, isiXhosa and Afrikaans. This makes it a wonderful tool for helping kids to learn other official languages, as they can compare pages and understand what is being said in each language.

Next time, I’ll introduce our growing team, who have made all this growth possible.

We will be launching The Climax Collection 2: the Secret Life of Windmills, which takes a tongue-in-cheek look at some songs windmills might be singing, when they think we aren’t listening. Max and Sue Hoppe will be on hand to sign your copies, while we listen to some of the songs mentioned in the book. In addition, we’ll be launching our much-anticipated online store, which has a lot of new stock such as art cards, art prints, posters, postcards and calendars, as well as 10 new E-books. These will be up on the big screen, so you can see all the goodies in store. The cherry on top will be a lucky number draw, in which the winner will receive a flash-disc containing all 10 e-books (a gift worth over R1000!)

And as if all that isn’t enough, it will take place at, and be catered by, the stunning Savages Fine Foods, where the ambiance and food are enough to make you think you might have died and gone to heaven! Hope to see you there!