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My new book: 33 Songs for Toy Xylophones

I released a new paperback book recently, called 33 Songs for Toy Xylophones. It is a book of music scores for toy xylophones and metallophones (8 notes): It contains songs for children, as well as folk songs from around the world (Japan, France, Russia…). It uses special notation for 8-note instruments so that it can be used even if you don’t know the standard notation for classical music. Like my previous books, it was self-published through Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing.

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Self-publishing a book with CreateSpace and Amazon

Recently, I finished a book publishing project I started around last Christmas. The book is titled “12 Partitions pour Xylophone & Métallophone à 8 Barres” and contains sheet music of French children songs that can be played on toy metallophones (aka glockenspiel) or xylophones. To self-publish the book, I used CreateSpace, a subsidiary of Amazon. It is now for sale via Print-on-Demand on all Amazon stores :

Update Jan. 2019: I have made an English version of the book, titled “12 Songs for Toy Xylophones & Metallophones: Vol. 1 - Children’s Songs from France”. It is available through Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), since CreateSpace is being shut down by Amazon. Check out the Amazon US store, the UK store and the Japan store. The publishing process through KDP is pretty similar to the one with CreateSpace, with basically the same options and workflow.

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