The Finnish book is now available

Suomenkielinen kirja Nukenkenkien tekemisen tekniikoita on nyt saatavissa Amazonista. Linkki vie Amazon.comiin, mutta muiltakin Amazonin sivustoilta kirja löytyy ASIN-numerolla B00Y2MDBOO (ja tietysti kirjan ja tekijän nimellä). Kirjan hinta Suomeen on sama kuin englanninkieliselläkin eli 12,39 dollaria (9,99 USD + ALV).

Saat Kindle Reading App -sovelluksen ilman lisämaksua täältä: Amazon.com - Read eBooks using the FREE Kindle Reading App on Most Devices. Sen avulla kirjoja voi lukea tietokoneella, taulutietokoneella, älypuhelimella yms.

Finnish book update

Kenkäkirjan kääntäminen on vielä kesken. Tällä hetkellä käännettynä on noin 80 %, joten suomenkielinen on kyllä tulossa aikanaan. Sillä välin saatavana on suomeksi myöhemmin kirjoittamani pieni kirja Lautanauhoja pienoiskoossa: Vasta-alkajan opas. Linkki vie Amazon.comiin, koska Suomeen tilattavat Kindle-kirjat on ostettava sieltä, mutta kirja löytyy muiltakin Amazonin sivustoilta ASIN-numerolla B00X2SUC3W. Kirjan hinta Suomeen on 1,23 dollaria (0,99 USD + ALV).

Saat Kindle Reading App -sovelluksen ilman lisämaksua täältä: Amazon.com - Read eBooks using the FREE Kindle Reading App on Most Devices. Sen avulla kirjoja voi lukea tietokoneella, taulutietokoneella, älypuhelimella yms.

Lautanauhoja pienoiskoossa -kirjassa on ohjeet kansikuvassa näytettyjen kaltaisten lautanauhojen tekemiseen. Mitään aiempaa kokemusta aiheesta ei tarvita. Välineet ja tarvikkeet luultavasti löytyvät kotoa valmiiksi tai jos ei, niin ne saa halvalla.

Card Weaving in Miniature

As soon as I got the first book finished, I went to work on another one. I would have liked to include more card weaving info in the doll shoe book, but it would have been a too long section, so I left it out. Now I wrote a short book just about making miniature card-woven bands.

The book is called Card Weaving in Miniature. It's a book for anybody who doesn't know anything about card weaving, but wants to make some bands for miniature projects.

Here are the links to the book on other Amazon sites:

Amazon.co.uk: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00X13QWZ0
Amazon.de: http://www.amazon.de/dp/B00X13QWZ0
Amazon.fr: http://www.amazon.fr/dp/B00X13QWZ0
Amazon.es: http://www.amazon.es/dp/B00X13QWZ0
Amazon.it: http://www.amazon.it/dp/B00X13QWZ0
Amazon.co.jp: http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00X13QWZ0
Amazon.com.br: http://www.amazon.com.br/dp/B00X13QWZ0
Amazon.ca: http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00X13QWZ0
Amazon.in: http://www.amazon.in/dp/B00X13QWZ0
Amazon.com.au: http://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B00X13QWZ0

The book is now available

It is a surprise to myself that I actually managed to finish the book and it is now available for Kindle devices and readers on the Amazon web sites. It's called: Techniques for Making Doll Shoes. The link takes you to the Amazon.com web site. The links to the book on the other Amazon web sites are as follows:

Amazon.co.uk: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00UVHDRTI
Amazon.de: http://www.amazon.de/dp/B00UVHDRTI
Amazon.fr: http://www.amazon.fr/dp/B00UVHDRTI
Amazon.es: http://www.amazon.es/dp/B00UVHDRTI
Amazon.it: http://www.amazon.it/dp/B00UVHDRTI
Amazon.co.jp: http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00UVHDRTI
Amazon.com.br: http://www.amazon.com.br/dp/B00UVHDRTI
Amazon.ca: http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00UVHDRTI
Amazon.in: http://www.amazon.in/dp/B00UVHDRTI
Amazon.com.au: http://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B00UVHDRTI

For some reason, the listings do not show a cover photo, although there is one. I hope it is just an update problem and the cover will be shown later. This is what it looks like:

The book has 309 pictures (photos and a few drawings) and almost 42,000 words. It is a reference book, describing techniques for making various parts of doll shoes and combining them. You can find much of the information in this blog, but the book has everything organized in a (hopefully) logical order. It also has lots of new photos, which look a lot less cluttered than what I normally have in the blog posts.

Edit: If you want to check the book's table of contents, you can get it in PDF format by clicking here.

Note to Finnish readers:
Suomenkielinen versio on työn alla ja toivon mukaan ilmestyy jossain vaiheessa, mutta käännettävää on paljon, joten mitään tarkkaa aikaa on mahdotonta luvata. Jos ja kun se valmistuu, se tulee todennäköisesti saataville myös Amazonin kautta, koska kotimaiset e-kirjojen verkkokaupat ovat tehneet julkaisusta todella monimutkaista (ainakin ne, jotka olen tarkistanut).

Book update

It's finally happening. I just wrote the last missing part of the book (Introduction) and submitted a request for ISBN as I want to do this thing properly. The submission form asked for publishing time and I stated March 2015, so it is set now. The book will become available some time next month. I'm aiming at the beginning of the month, but cannot promise that for sure.

The book has 223 pages (that's what MS Word shows) and the current word count is about 41,000. That will probably change a bit due to some editing that I still need to do, but it'll give you some idea. Additionally, there are over 300 photos as I believe that illustrating the steps is crucial in a book like this.

I will let you know when the book becomes available in Amazon. Remember that you do not need a Kindle device for reading Kindle books as you can download the free reader for your PC from Amazon's site.