Smartwork Creative

Who nominated us?

Was it you?

From the email I received from the 2 degrees business awards people:

Being nominated is a testament to the hard work and dedication you have put into your business, and it means that someone (who wishes to remain anonymous) values what you do and believes in you.

I want to personally congratulate you on the nomination - it's a huge achievement in and of itself. It takes time and effort for someone to submit a nomination, and it shows that they hold you in high regard. Now, it's time to take the next step and enter the awards!

So we did! Enter the awards that is.

And I got invited in for an interview. Not sure what happens next, but we are very grateful for the time and energy our mystery admirer took in nominating us. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

A bit of short notice but it’s worth a go. Good luck.

⏰ We are five hours away from the start of our 2023 'Share the Love' of reading, writing and storytelling Valentine's Day opportunity with Scholastic.

For more information go to
https://scholastic.co.nz/about/submissions-to-scholastic/

We welcome the submission of your picture book manuscript on February 14th. A reminder that we will get in touch with you by 31 May if your manuscript is successful in moving through to the next stage of the publishing journey.

Thank you for your stories.

Good luck!

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Pictured: The E Oma, Rāpeti series 🐇 by Norah Wilson, whose 2022 ‘Share the Love’ submission is being published in February 2023, as not one, not two, but three adorable and bouncy bilingual books, translated by Pānia Papa and charmingly illustrated by Kimberly Andrews.

There's warm bubbles everywhere.

"... as soon as it arrived we surprised her. Thankyou so so much for the work you did as it has just made the Book just so special. Isabella was just delighted "

We went all out to get this project through for Xmas and it's little rewards like this that make it all worthwhile.

Everyone is shouting that 2023 is going to be tricky. But maybe if we can just sit back a bit and remember the bits that make us really happy then it will be ok.

Good luck everyone.

It's been a magnificent year

and once we sat down and reflected. It was way busier than we remembered!

Here's a reflection of some the books we've created, which is only a fraction of the work that goes into making a great title.

There's so many others that we are very grateful to be working with in this publishing world.

Here's a roundup of the year and much, much more.
https://bit.ly/3VcxoD8