Amazing!!!! Congrats!!!! Do you plan to add it to Amazon or something like that in the future for us in the United States? The shipping cost is diabolical 😅
I feel you on the shipping costs. Knowing how much it costs to ship anything internationally from Australia was one of the reasons I was really hesitant to try and release this myself. Ideally the long term goal is to have it on Amazon but at this point it’s just on Amazon. This is all new territory for me and I’m learning as I go but from what I’ve researched I have 2 options to get it on Amazon in the US. Option one is to use their print on demand service which is what a lot of independent authors are doing but the quality for a children’s book isn’t as good as you’d get from an offset print. Something that was really important to me was to be able to have nice thick glossy pages with very vibrant colors and from the research I did, bulk ordering books via the offset print route was going to get me and the readers the best possible quality book. I really wanted it to the best quality I could make it. 2. You can ship a bulk order to Amazon and they’ll keep your books in their warehouse. They charge a fee for this and the author ( me ) also wears the shipping costs for all the boxes sent to the US which costs quite a bit from Australia as well. I think my long term goal, should the book get enough interest would be to make another bulk order of soft cover books ( the ones I have right now are hard covers ) and have them shipped by sea to an Amazon storage facility so that they can be more easily and affordably accessed by all our friends in the US who would like to purchase one. Sorry for the long explanation but I just wanted to explain why the shipping costs are unfortunately so high to anywhere outside of Australia right now and let you know I completely understand how you feel. This is all new to me and I’m figuring it out as I go. Thanks so much for the honest feedback. I do appreciate it 🙏
@@JamiePerkinsI don’t blame you as far as Amazon’s print on demand. A friend of mine from college also wrote a children’s book and used that service. I went ahead and ordered one through Amazon, and I kid you not, there is a random page from someone else’s book in the middle of his book 😅 🤷🏽♀️ No, no, no…thanks for the response! It may be pessimistic of me, but I expect people not to respond a lot of the time so…thanks!
@@A-Ra1111 To ship it to me here in the US is more than the cost is the book and the sticker pack. I want to say it was around $35 to ship bringing the total cost to around $65. It gave me the price in USD.
I know Ava is very bright but I'm reminded that Zoe is too. What an excellent reader. No hesitation, fluent. Just six years old. Jamie, I like how your co authors are signing the book !
Hey guys! Sorry for the website issues this morning. It seems to be all up and running now. For some reason it didn’t like that I put in front of the website. So if you can please manually type www.jamieperkins.co it will work 😃
I work at the library doing lots of storytimes each week cannot wait to get my copy, it will be shared with many many children and school/kinder groups over the coming weeks and months. Congratulations Jamie, Ava and Zoe on such an amazing labour of love, so happy to be able to support you :-)
Awww thank you so much! This comment just made my day. The thought of so many kids enjoying something me and the girls dreamed about o is really exciting. Please tell me any reviews you get from the kids we would love to hear 😃
@@JamiePerkins I will for sure I always do a craft activity which relates back to one of the books we've read that session so I'm looking forward to creating something with Uni in it. Cheers Karen :-)
Oh that would be so cool! Please share 😃 I can’t wait to see and the kids will love that too. They’ve been asking me if I can do a giveaway where kids have to draw a picture of uni which I think I’ll do soon too
This is amazing, Jamie. I remembered your adventures with the girls. It was a pleasure to watch you and the girls interacted. You entertained the girls with cooking, trips to parks, getaways, and creative adventurous. You put a lot of effort into caring for your babies. No one can say otherwise. This book illustrates your dedication to the welfare of your children. No better gift a child can get than a present parent. I know you were trying your best, even though your marriage didn’t work out and you had challenges with your health. There is a saying that “Memories don’t live like people do.” You have created and implanted beautiful memories into the minds of your daughters that will last a lifetime. May God continue to bless you and yours. I am certainly going to get several hard copies to give out as gifts.
Wow these girls are so Blessed to have you as their father Jaime.🥰😍😘 Congratulations on having your first book published by you and your girls!!!!! So proud of you three. Hi grandma Perkins.😊
Congratulations! What an accomplishment. Your girls are so blessed to have such a thoughtful Dad. All the things you are exposing them to, will prove to be invaluable lessons in their lives. Well done!
Yay I’m so glad that you were finally able to get through. Thanks so much for all your effort of trying again. I’m glad it’s working for you finally and we really appreciate the support. I hope you love the book as much as we do 😃
Congratulation's to you ,Ava and Zoe on your new book. I've tried but still cant get it. I'm glad that they get to come home and see the books. Thanks for sharing and Good luck on your new journey. Id Love to have a sign copy.
Thank you 😊 they’re so excited that we’ve put this out. Zoe got to read it to her class at school this week. She was so proud and all the kids loved it
My daughter lvu’s reading so much, I can’t wait to read with her or more than likely she’d read to me 😀. She won’t know how special it is to get her very 1st first edition of a book at her age. Congratulations to the girls 🎉.
Congratulations 🥳 I just ordered the book and sticker pack for my kids. We are going to love reading this book. It looks amazing, Well done 👏 God bless you 🙏
That is so awesome. I'm sure it's such a great feeling to see your vision come to life. And the girls get to be a part with interacting with fans by signing each book with love. 🥰👋Congratulations!!!!!
That's absolutely fantastic Jamie, Ava and Zoe, great job guy's. Heartfelt congratulations on your book that's going to make lots of other kids very happy 🎉🎉❤❤❤
Totally awesome guys love this new achievement girls, dad, editor and writers publishers all who give the green light on this beautiful children's books.
Thank you 😊 it is pretty crazy to think we’re authors now. I have to give the girls co credits as well since they helped me come up with our friend Uni
Okay Jamie, I finally got the website to work. I purchased my book! The shipping is wow! It’s okay because it’s for to the girls! ❤I’m so happy for you and the girls! Zoe’s reading is excellent! I can’t wait to get my copy. I have a great nephew who I can read it to. His 3 rd birthday is coming up! ❤️
Hey Pam, I’m so glad you were able to get onto the website and I really wish there was something I could do about the shipping as it pains me to have to charge some people more for shipping than the book price. I completely understand where you’re coming from. One day if it’s in Gods plan and the book does well, hopefully we can have it on site somewhere in the US and UK where it can be sent out from there. Either from a publisher or an Amazon store house. But for now, I’m shipping them all out myself and the shipping company calculates the rates. I hope your great nephew loves the book. If you would like me to write a dedication to him in the front please send an e mail to unicornhideandseek@hotmail.com with all the details and I’ll make sure to have it in there for you 😃 And yes, Zoe’s reading has really improved. Especially since she got her glasses. They’re doing really well. I hope you’re having a great weekend Miss Pam and we really appreciate your support
Congratulations on your new book! I just purchased 3 books hoping it’s autographed. Where are the stickers? It was not at the website. Praying all the books are sold!
Hey, thank you so much! I just saw that order come through before. I’ll definitely make sure yours are signed 😃 we still have signed copies left. The stickers are on the website but they’re a little tricky to find. They pop up on the top left hand corner when you click the 3 lines. So they’re a little hidden away. For some reason I couldn’t get them on the main product page. I really hope you enjoy the book and are having an amazing weekend. P.S I’m going to throw the stickers in for free to say thank you
Amen and thank you for keeping us in your prayers Saleemah 😃 honestly I’m just happy I’ve been able to fulfill a promise to the kids and finally put this book out there. I really do hope it can put a smile on as many kids faces as possible though. It would be really cool if we can get it in stores 😃
The book came! Its so cool because ya'll are the only family/people I follow on YT and here the book is real, in my hands with all ya'll's signatures. I am so excited! Thank you for the kind note inside to me and my family. I am gifting this to my 3 year old niece and cannot wait to read it to her. I should have ordered two, one to keep just because and one to give away. I reside in USA and the shipping was worth it to support you all. Books and reading are very important to me and also someone who actually takes the time to follow their dreams and get it done! Thank you again and I hope you sell out! The quality is so nice, the story so fun and the dedication to Ava is so precious. You are a wonderful dad!
Thank you so much for supporting our book and I’m so happy to hear it arrived safely. Thanks for the awesome review too! 🙏😃 I hope you’re niece loves it. Also I hope she doesn’t mind that it has a dedication to you on the inside cover. I wasn’t entirely sure who all the books were going to when I was signing them so I was a little worried about that. Lol last week at church a friend of mine ( who’s last name I didn’t actually know, so I didn’t realize it was her who I had sent it to ) told me thanks for the book but wondered why I dedicated it to her and her family when she doesn’t have kids 😂🙈
@@JamiePerkins LOL that's funny. Oh its fine! I am going to add an arrow where you wrote family and put her name, Blue, on it. It probably felt natural to dedicate it to a family, I mean it is a children's book! I used to only buy books from my own childhood to gift but now I want to expand the collection since there are so many great ones coming out like yours. Thank you again!
Amazing!!!! Congrats!!!! Do you plan to add it to Amazon or something like that in the future for us in the United States? The shipping cost is diabolical 😅
I feel you on the shipping costs. Knowing how much it costs to ship anything internationally from Australia was one of the reasons I was really hesitant to try and release this myself. Ideally the long term goal is to have it on Amazon but at this point it’s just on Amazon. This is all new territory for me and I’m learning as I go but from what I’ve researched I have 2 options to get it on Amazon in the US.
Option one is to use their print on demand service which is what a lot of independent authors are doing but the quality for a children’s book isn’t as good as you’d get from an offset print. Something that was really important to me was to be able to have nice thick glossy pages with very vibrant colors and from the research I did, bulk ordering books via the offset print route was going to get me and the readers the best possible quality book. I really wanted it to the best quality I could make it.
2. You can ship a bulk order to Amazon and they’ll keep your books in their warehouse. They charge a fee for this and the author ( me ) also wears the shipping costs for all the boxes sent to the US which costs quite a bit from Australia as well. I think my long term goal, should the book get enough interest would be to make another bulk order of soft cover books ( the ones I have right now are hard covers ) and have them shipped by sea to an Amazon storage facility so that they can be more easily and affordably accessed by all our friends in the US who would like to purchase one.
Sorry for the long explanation but I just wanted to explain why the shipping costs are unfortunately so high to anywhere outside of Australia right now and let you know I completely understand how you feel. This is all new to me and I’m figuring it out as I go. Thanks so much for the honest feedback. I do appreciate it 🙏
@@JamiePerkinsI don’t blame you as far as Amazon’s print on demand. A friend of mine from college also wrote a children’s book and used that service. I went ahead and ordered one through Amazon, and I kid you not, there is a random page from someone else’s book in the middle of his book 😅 🤷🏽♀️
No, no, no…thanks for the response! It may be pessimistic of me, but I expect people not to respond a lot of the time so…thanks!
@@JamiePerkins please don't worry about the shipping. Remind them that is it is ASD not USD
@@A-Ra1111 To ship it to me here in the US is more than the cost is the book and the sticker pack. I want to say it was around $35 to ship bringing the total cost to around $65. It gave me the price in USD.
So the uk too xx
That's quite an accomplishment Jamie. That's great!!!🥰
Thank you lex 😃
How many girls wish they had a dad like you Jamie! God bless you and your family. ♥️
I know Ava is very bright but I'm reminded that Zoe is too. What an excellent reader. No hesitation, fluent. Just six years old. Jamie, I like how your co authors are signing the book !
Hey guys! Sorry for the website issues this morning. It seems to be all up and running now. For some reason it didn’t like that I put in front of the website. So if you can please manually type www.jamieperkins.co it will work 😃
Pin 📌 it Jam❤
I cant access the website :( is the book going to be available for the UK too?
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Congratulations Jamie and your kids so very happy for you guys
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Congratulations Jaime,Ava and Zoe. So well deserved ! God got you Jaime.
Thank you Tracy 😃
Yay! 🥳 congratulations Jamie and the girls! I pray that millions are sold in Jesus name amen and amen 🙏🏾🥳🥳🥳
Amen and thank you 🙏
I work at the library doing lots of storytimes each week cannot wait to get my copy, it will be shared with many many children and school/kinder groups over the coming weeks and months. Congratulations Jamie, Ava and Zoe on such an amazing labour of love, so happy to be able to support you :-)
Awww thank you so much! This comment just made my day. The thought of so many kids enjoying something me and the girls dreamed about o is really exciting. Please tell me any reviews you get from the kids we would love to hear 😃
@@JamiePerkins I will for sure I always do a craft activity which relates back to one of the books we've read that session so I'm looking forward to creating something with Uni in it. Cheers Karen :-)
Oh that would be so cool! Please share 😃 I can’t wait to see and the kids will love that too. They’ve been asking me if I can do a giveaway where kids have to draw a picture of uni which I think I’ll do soon too
This is amazing, Jamie. I remembered your adventures with the girls. It was a pleasure to watch you and the girls interacted. You entertained the girls with cooking, trips to parks, getaways, and creative adventurous. You put a lot of effort into caring for your babies. No one can say otherwise. This book illustrates your dedication to the welfare of your children. No better gift a child can get than a present parent. I know you were trying your best, even though your marriage didn’t work out and you had challenges with your health. There is a saying that “Memories don’t live like people do.” You have created and implanted beautiful memories into the minds of your daughters that will last a lifetime. May God continue to bless you and yours. I am certainly going to get several hard copies to give out as gifts.
Congratulations to you & the girls! Such a creative and amazing project/memory for you all, Jamie! :D
Jamie you're such an Awesome Father ❤
Congratulations!!!
Congratulations
Thank you Claudette 😃
They’ve grown up so much. I love hearing them read the book.
Congratulations! I pray you sell out and continue to grow! Yyaaaayyyy!!!! 🌸🍃🌼🍃🌺🍃
Congratulations too y'all just love it's
well done, you! 🎉
Wow these girls are so Blessed to have you as their father Jaime.🥰😍😘 Congratulations on having your first book published by you and your girls!!!!! So proud of you three. Hi grandma Perkins.😊
Congratulations to you and your family
Great job Jamie, keep that awesome momentum up 💪💪💪👏👏
Wow congratulations!! How amazing. 👏🏾🎉
This is so awesome. Congratulations Jamie, Ava, and Zoe!!!
Thank you 😊
Congratulations 🎊 Jamie, Ava and Zoey
Congratulations 🎊 👏 💐
I GOTTA HAVE A SIGNED COPY!! I am too dang on excited..
We’re excited to send you one 😃
@@JamiePerkinshow do we get one and what is the cost
Congratulations! What an accomplishment. Your girls are so blessed to have such a thoughtful Dad. All the things you are exposing them to, will prove to be invaluable lessons in their lives. Well done!
Every success to the family....
Thank you 😃
Congratulations to you all 🎉
This is sooo adorable!
🥰 eu amo muito vocês meus amores de coração ❤❤❤❤
Huge Congrats 🎉🎉🎉. Keeping winning Jamie.
Aww, congrats & many blessings to you and the girls.
Thanks Jamie for working out the site issues!! I was able to order my book this morning 💕💕💕
Yay I’m so glad that you were finally able to get through. Thanks so much for all your effort of trying again. I’m glad it’s working for you finally and we really appreciate the support. I hope you love the book as much as we do 😃
Congratulations Jamie and the girls!! Good stuff!
Congratulations to you and your daughters🎉
Thank you Sarah 😃
Aww, congratulations!! I'm so proud of you!!
Thank you 😃
CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU AND YOUR BEAUTIFUL GIRLS PRAISE GOD ❤
Congratulations 🎉
Congratulations to you and the girls 👧 👏 I hope you sell a lots of books 🙏🙌👧
Thank you Paulette we appreciate it 😃
🎉 Congratulations......Wonderful book. Great job Ava & Zoe 🥰❣️
They are so smart and very nice handwriting ❤
Congratulations Jamie and the kids!!! You are so deserving!
Congratulations, this is wonderful🎊
Thank you 😃
A big congratulations 🎉🎊 ❤❤
Congratulation to you jamie and your two beautiful daugthers wishing you many more success.
Congratulations so proud of you for releasing the book!
Congrats guys!!! So happy & proud of you all!! I KNOW there’s a a second print coming!! 🎉
Congratulation's to you ,Ava and Zoe on your new book. I've tried but still cant get it. I'm glad that they get to come home and see the books. Thanks for sharing and Good luck on your new journey. Id Love to have a sign copy.
Congrats 🎉🎉
Wow congratulations
Good luck with the book,I’m sure it will do well.👍👍👍👍👍👍
So great!
Love the look back of the kids when they were so small 🥹. Congrats 🎉
I'm so excited for you and the girls! congratulations!!! 🎈🎊👏👏
I’m so happy. I’d like three of them. How do I order.
God bless you and your family. Congratulations 🎉🎉
What a great way to inspire your girls to be authors and entrepreneurs. Great job, Jamie Perkins👍🥰
Thank you 😊 they’re so excited that we’ve put this out. Zoe got to read it to her class at school this week. She was so proud and all the kids loved it
Congratulations Jamie and your girls,pray God bless your sales,so it will sell out ,wanting more🎊 🎉❤🙏🏽😇🙌🏽
Owesome ❤❤
Wow thats great
Congratulations to you, Jamie, and your girl's, Ava and Zoe!! 🎉🎉🎉 Job well done, the book is absolutely beautiful!!
My daughter lvu’s reading so much, I can’t wait to read with her or more than likely she’d read to me 😀. She won’t know how special it is to get her very 1st first edition of a book at her age. Congratulations to the girls 🎉.
Congratulations Jamie, Ava and Zoe 😊. Wishing you all God's blessings and great success with this venture.
Congratulations 🥳 I just ordered the book and sticker pack for my kids. We are going to love reading this book. It looks amazing, Well done 👏 God bless you 🙏
Thanks for the support Natalie 😃 I can’t wait to hear how the boys enjoy the book
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Excitement running high.
❤❤❤
Great job Jamie on your first book. This may be the start of a new career, think about it.
Thanks Rosy 😃 it’s exciting trying something new
The girls are so lucky to have you as their dad 🤍🤍💟💟
Congratulations Jamie, Ava and Zoe, I wish you all the success you deserve...smooches
Thank you Linda 😃🙏
That is so awesome. I'm sure it's such a great feeling to see your vision come to life. And the girls get to be a part with interacting with fans by signing each book with love. 🥰👋Congratulations!!!!!
Congratulations Jamie,Ava and Zoe🎉
Just ordered…🤞🏾for a signed copy for my niece.🥰🧒🏾
Congrats! Just ordered a copy, but had to drop everything before the www. for the site to load. Looking forward on what's to come! cheers!
That's absolutely fantastic Jamie, Ava and Zoe, great job guy's. Heartfelt congratulations on your book that's going to make lots of other kids very happy 🎉🎉❤❤❤
Amazing! Congratulations to you all on this accomplishment 🥳📚
Totally awesome guys love this new achievement girls, dad, editor and writers publishers all who give the green light on this beautiful children's books.
Thank you 😊 it is pretty crazy to think we’re authors now. I have to give the girls co credits as well since they helped me come up with our friend Uni
Okay Jamie, I finally got the website to work. I purchased my book! The shipping is wow! It’s okay because it’s for to the girls! ❤I’m so happy for you and the girls! Zoe’s reading is excellent! I can’t wait to get my copy. I have a great nephew who I can read it to. His 3 rd birthday is coming up! ❤️
Hey Pam, I’m so glad you were able to get onto the website and I really wish there was something I could do about the shipping as it pains me to have to charge some people more for shipping than the book price. I completely understand where you’re coming from. One day if it’s in Gods plan and the book does well, hopefully we can have it on site somewhere in the US and UK where it can be sent out from there. Either from a publisher or an Amazon store house. But for now, I’m shipping them all out myself and the shipping company calculates the rates.
I hope your great nephew loves the book. If you would like me to write a dedication to him in the front please send an e mail to unicornhideandseek@hotmail.com with all the details and I’ll make sure to have it in there for you 😃
And yes, Zoe’s reading has really improved. Especially since she got her glasses. They’re doing really well.
I hope you’re having a great weekend Miss Pam and we really appreciate your support
Yayyyyyy! ❤ awwwwe the pink castle stickers! Congratulations 🍾🎉 cool glasses Jamie, The book turned out really nice!
Congratulations 🎉
Congratulations on your book Ava Jamie and Zoe
Awesome news! Congrats to you, Ava, and Zoe on the release of the book! I will be purchasing one soon. So happy for all of you!
Congratulations Jamie !
Congratulations on your new book! I just purchased 3 books hoping it’s autographed. Where are the stickers? It was not at the website. Praying all the books are sold!
Hey, thank you so much! I just saw that order come through before. I’ll definitely make sure yours are signed 😃 we still have signed copies left. The stickers are on the website but they’re a little tricky to find. They pop up on the top left hand corner when you click the 3 lines. So they’re a little hidden away. For some reason I couldn’t get them on the main product page. I really hope you enjoy the book and are having an amazing weekend. P.S I’m going to throw the stickers in for free to say thank you
Love this!!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Congratulations on your new adventure 🎉❤
Congratulations!! 😀🎉
Congratulations to Jamie and his daughters I am praying the books will do well thanks for sharing the Perkins family are my favorite God bless 💜💜💙😊
Amen and thank you for keeping us in your prayers Saleemah 😃 honestly I’m just happy I’ve been able to fulfill a promise to the kids and finally put this book out there. I really do hope it can put a smile on as many kids faces as possible though. It would be really cool if we can get it in stores 😃
It is a beautiful book indeed. Congratulations 🎊
Congratulations, Jamie, Ava and Zoe!!!!!🎉🎉🎉
Congratulations to you and your girls Jamie 🤗can’t wait to get one for my little one !!💞👍
Thanks Valerie 😃 please let us know how she likes it
Very nice ❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤
I love the dedication on the first page, I got quite emotional when you read it.
BIG CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU JAMIE🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Do you ship to the uk.
Thank you and I sure do 😃
The book came! Its so cool because ya'll are the only family/people I follow on YT and here the book is real, in my hands with all ya'll's signatures. I am so excited! Thank you for the kind note inside to me and my family. I am gifting this to my 3 year old niece and cannot wait to read it to her. I should have ordered two, one to keep just because and one to give away. I reside in USA and the shipping was worth it to support you all. Books and reading are very important to me and also someone who actually takes the time to follow their dreams and get it done! Thank you again and I hope you sell out! The quality is so nice, the story so fun and the dedication to Ava is so precious. You are a wonderful dad!
Thank you so much for supporting our book and I’m so happy to hear it arrived safely. Thanks for the awesome review too! 🙏😃 I hope you’re niece loves it. Also I hope she doesn’t mind that it has a dedication to you on the inside cover. I wasn’t entirely sure who all the books were going to when I was signing them so I was a little worried about that. Lol last week at church a friend of mine ( who’s last name I didn’t actually know, so I didn’t realize it was her who I had sent it to ) told me thanks for the book but wondered why I dedicated it to her and her family when she doesn’t have kids 😂🙈
@@JamiePerkins LOL that's funny. Oh its fine! I am going to add an arrow where you wrote family and put her name, Blue, on it. It probably felt natural to dedicate it to a family, I mean it is a children's book! I used to only buy books from my own childhood to gift but now I want to expand the collection since there are so many great ones coming out like yours. Thank you again!
CONGRATULATIONS ❤🎉
CONGRATULATIONS!!🎉👏🏾 This is so amazing! I’m so happy for you and the girls!🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾
Congratulations to you and the girls 🎉🎉❤❤❤
Congratulations to you and the girls ❤❤❤God bless you all always
Thank you 😃
May God bless you all. Congratulations and I pray for much success!!
CONGRATULATIONS ON Y'ALLS FIRST PUBLISHED BOOK. AVA AND ZOE SIGNING THE BOOKS WAS SO ADORABLE. MAY GOD BLESS YOUR FAMILY ALWAYS. 🙂🙏🏿✝️❤📚
Thank you so much Mary 😃 it has been really amazing seeing the girls take so much pride in this project
This is wonderful!!! So proud of all of you🎉🎉🎉😊😊😊
Congratulations 🎈🎈🎈🎈