100 kickstarter parcels sent out!

We’ve sent 100 of the kickstarter parcels for the project out since Friday last week!

Would love to know what you think of Magic Fish Dreaming and about its arrival into your family or school!

So delighted to know it is being used for a poem before sleep in a few families already!

You can catch our second review on Good Reads, and feel free to add your own.

We have some more reviews coming up soon.

And check out Helene’s Christmas book!

Must be time to put together a Magic Fish Dreaming trailer!

All the very best for Christmas and New Year.

The Magic Fish Dreaming Team

Books on their way soon!

We will have some Magic Fish Dreaming books before Christmas to send out to all you wonderful kickstarter supporters!

Will let you know the day we start posting them out and they may arrive Christmas or early new year.

Hooray! Our apologies for the delays beyond our control.

Magic Fish Dreaming is Launched

More soon.  Some picture highlights, with photography by Peter Allert, Heidi Den Ronden, Jillanne Harrison, and Book Links

Arrival 3pm

Time to view the art by Helene Magisson and some of June’s photographs on the wall

Buy Books

View the cake

Official Program

Welcome from Merv

Welcome – Ruha Fifita

Talk by Melanie Hill – Write Links

One Song – Sheridan and Sandon

Talk from Helene Magisson and Thankyous

Talk by  June’s ASA Mentor – Robyn Sheahan Bright – and reading of one of June’s poems – River Song

Robyn officially launching the book

Intermission cake

Short talk about the cake and refreshments time

Book signing

Magic Fish Dreaming Video ‘Listen to the Water’ – A Poem on Film

River Song in language – recording of cousin  Cornelia reading in Maipa village language

Two songs – Sheridan and Sandon

June Perkins reads two poems, ‘Discovering Magic’ & ‘Storm Dancers’

Ruha Dance

June says program concludes, very short speech about empowerment of young people.

Farewell 5pm

Magic Fish Dreaming

Beautiful message from Mel for the Launch this weekend.

Melinda J. Irvine

Wishing my friend June Perkins all the best for the launch of her stunning book of poetry, Magic Fish Dreaming on 30 October in Brisbane. Also looking forward to receiving a few copies and some Australian native plush toys for the kids here in the Philippines.

June is such an inspiration to me as a writer and creative. All her works come from a place of truth: the truth of nature, of family and cultural identity. Her daily dedication to sharing her knowledge with the wider community is really inspiring.

One of my first memories of June was at a songwriting workshop in 2012. June performed a song about her brother and the tragedy of his life. I can still hear her soft voice and the guitar strumming to the words … “you climbed out the window last night”. Her work has always impacted me like that.

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The Printing of Magic Fish Dreaming

You can visit the video of our trip to Fergies to see our book being printed on my Pearlz Dreaming blog.

Pearlz Dreaming

We were lucky enough to have a sneak view of our book being printed.

I filmed this on my mobile phone.

Magic Fish Dreaming is printed by Fergies.

We thank them for hosting our visit to the printing of the book.

Enjoy!

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News – Avant Card to Feature ‘River Song’

The good news is that ‘River Song’, an illustration from Magic Fish Dreaming has been selected by Avant Card and will be printed in 10.000 copies and distributed nationally.

This will be a great support to Magic Fish Dreaming thanks to Avant Card!  We’ll let you know when the card is out.

‘River Song’ by Helene Magisson

News From Helene Magisson

Thank you to the Magic Fish Dreaming Team

Helene, Heidi, June team meeting – Matilda was there by skype.
Richard Tillotson – from Fergies

Just have the most dedicated and delightful team to work with on Magic Fish Dreaming. They have made the process of creating this book one of the best experiences of my life.

Even when we have challenges they are just solved and everyone is never afraid to say how to make something even better and everyone just strives for excellence. I feel very blessed. I wish all work places could be like this. There’s just no ‘ego’ and we all just want to make the book the best it can be.

I have gained such an insight and understanding of the talents and skills of an editor, designer, illustrator and printer. They put as much effort into this as writers do. When you understand what they do better, you can just put trust in the whole process of book making. I don’t think I would even considering laying out a children’s book myself!

On top of that everyone understands the challenges of my budget, as a small business, and the need to do things the best we can within that budget but still be excellent. At the same time I just want to pay all our ‘staff’ as much as I possibly can for what they do and show appreciation for when they go above and beyond the limitations of that budget.

Finally just so hope that this team will have many rewards; that I am able to sell lots of books;  that they receive more business, because they deserve it so much:  I would love to work with them all one day again.

June

Last Chance to Pledge for Magic Fish Dreaming

The kickstarter has just 3 days to go.

We are currently at $9491AUD and would love to make it to $10,000AUD if we can – Anything more would be amazing as we would dearly like to print the book hard cover, but we are so thrilled with how much we have been able to raise for our project.

We are preparing our thank you honour roll blog and have been already saying lots of thank yous.  We think maybe it needs to include its own special poem.

We may still look at a few more  creative ways to fund our project up to hard cover level if we can, so keep a look out for future announcements.

To visit the Kickstarter and Pledge for a Book  click here.  KICKSTARTER LINK

For our overseas and blog fans on a budget, there is a $10AUD PDF option and there is still a chance to purchase a top level reward, art by Helene, workshops, Cassowary, education kits.  And don’t forget two books, two calico bag special, and we may have another special tomorrow morning! So look out for that.

We are going to organise and online and real space launch for later in the year, for those who can make it.  We look forward to a very special event for our launch.

A big thank you to everyone who has been following our journey.