Category: News

This week, Cozy Classics had the honour of being included in the Publishers Weekly Children’s Bookshelf, a bi-weekly newsletter on all that’s new and notable in the world of children’s books. The article on Cozy Classics was written by the funny and gracious Judith Rosen, Publishers Weekly‘s New England correspondent. Holman had the good fortune to meet her at the… Read more →

Cozy Classics is holding a contest! It’s easy: watch the video below, guess the identity of the mystery character from a yet-to-be-announced Cozy Classics title, and send your answer to info@mycozyclassics.com on or before December 31, 2012. Full details here. Brush up on your literary leading men, and have fun!   Read more →

Today marks the “official launch” of Cozy Classics‘ six-week publicity blitz with Smith Publicity, a firm specializing in book marketing with offices in New Jersey, New York, Toronto and London. We say “official launch” in quotes because all the work the first few days are in-house, but it won’t be long before Smith Publicity begins talking up Cozy Classics. And… Read more →

Cozy Classics is pleased to announce its next two titles in the series: Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables and and Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Les Misérables will debut in early spring 2013, while War and Peace will be released in summer 2013. For more, check out the Books and Images sections of our website. Read more →

To commemorate the anniversary of Moby Dick‘s publication in the UK 161 years ago, the online edition of The Telegraph (a.k.a. The Daily Telegraph) offered three solutions for bluffing your way through Moby Dick: 1. Listen to an audio version. 2. Watch a film adaptation. 3. Read “the remarkable children’s board book from Cozy Classics”! Read more →

This past weekend, I had the honour of being invited to attend the Pacific Northwest Bookseller Association‘s fall tradeshow. I was part of a select group of authors invited to autograph copies of our books at the Saturday Nightcapper event. I shared a table with another Simply Read Books author, Kathy Beliveau, author of the wonderful picture book The Yoga… Read more →

Here are the backs for our new promo postcards. The fronts will feature the book covers. Read more →

Two-and-a-half years after our first concept development work for Cozy Classics (the Sailor from Moby Dick, which can be seen here), the books are finally in hand! It will take a few weeks for the books to work themselves through distribution channels, but they should be available in Canada around September 15, 2012, and everywhere else not long after that.… Read more →

Lights, cameras, action! Read more →

Our fabulous designer, Sara Gillingham, is putting the finishing touches on the covers and interiors for Pride and Prejudice and Moby Dick. Have a sneak peek below. The books should be going off to print in the next few days.   Read more →