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In 2001 we decided to start our own company, I Shine Inc. and self-publish I Love You More. We had sent our book out to a few agents and a few publishers and gotten an equal number of “No’s”. Laura’s mom chipped in the financing and we set out to do it ourselves. We learned that in order to successfully self-publish we should find our niche to sell our book in. We did, we sold over 179,000 copies on our own in American Craft and Gift Galleries, Children’s Specialty Shops and to independent book displayers. Our favorite things to do are school visits and Art Festivals. We set a record at the Las Olas Art Festival of selling 437 books in 2 days! That was the 6th time we had worked that same festival. The love and demand for I Love You More continued to grow. We realized it was time to get our book and its message in to the hands of millions. For this we would need to expand our team and knew it was time to bring on an agent and publisher. Our agent Cathy Hemming found us the perfect publisher Sourcebooks, they had recently started their children’s imprint, Jabberwocky and the editor who saw it loved it! He’s a genius that Lyron Bennett…he knew a good thing when he saw it and for that we are eternally grateful! The owner of the company, Dominique Raccah loved it too and we quickly formed an incredible partnership: Team Love. With their ability to market, promote and distribute I Love You More into markets we were never able to do on our own, including all the great major and independent bookstores our message began reaching the hearts and homes of many more. After our re-release in November of 2007 we did a lot of touring and promoting including Independent Book Seller Conventions, Books-A-Million managers meeting, ABA Winter Institute, countless stops at Barnes and Nobles and other great independent book stores for signings-scheduled and impromptu. Laura also did close to 50 radio interviews…spreading the message of love across the airwaves. Our book was blogged about on over 150 websites in cyberspace. We were a BookSense Winter Pick 2007-2008, an iParenting Media Greatest Product Award Winner and won the London Book Festival. In February all that “Team Love” effort brought us our highest achievement yet…I Love You More became a New York Times Best Seller: # 10 for the week of February 24 and climbing the chart to # 7 on March 3!!! We would love for you to be a part of “Team Love” and help us get the word out about our book and its message of love!
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