Tomorrow marks an important anniversary for Woolaston Entertainment. March 27, 2010 was the day the first published version of Valentine was released. I had written the book a few years prior by hand and I decided to type it. I had published Fortune’s Wing the year before with Xlibris, and I wanted to use the same print-on-demand service for Valentine. Five years later I republished the book using Amazon’s KDP (formerly Create Space), and I went on to publish four more books in the series along with three spin-off series. But that first version of the first book will always be important to me because it was Valentine’s first step.

It’s funny that something that came into existence by accident became such an important part of Woolaston Entertainment. I drew an illustration for another book I was working on and made a mistake with the hair, and ended up keeping the “mistake” and turning it into another character and another story. I never expected to write nineteen Valentine books, but here we are, sixteen years later. Plus, I’m working on another series: a graphic novel series starring Veronica Entienne, Valentine’s trusty cousin and BFF. I’m looking forward to working on all of the illustrations and releasing the first book later this year.

If you’ve never read a Valentine book and you would like to know more about them, you can visit the Valentine Page on this site. I think you’ll like them.