Mar 3, 2010
Pre-order The Knitgrrl Guide to Professional Knitwear Design

The Knitgrrl Guide to Professional Knitwear Design: How to Keep Your Knits About You by Shannon Okey will be published this spring by Cooperative Press.
Retail price: $22.95 USD
Size: 7.44 x 9.69 inches (19 x 25 cm)
Pages: 254 (print edition; digital may vary by format)
978-0-9792017-1-4 print edition ISBN
The Knitgrrl Guide To Professional Knitwear Design is the first-ever book targeted to designers of all experience levels who want to create, communicate and sell their work professionally to magazines, publishers, consumers and other markets. Written by an industry insider, the Guide takes a comprehensive, unflinching look behind the scenes that no knit or crochet designer can afford to be without. Includes interviews with top designers, editors and professionals who tell it like it is so you can hit the ground running, a guide to responsible social media use, information on distribution, printing, online publishing, book and magazine proposals and much, much more.
Pre-order now for free domestic1 shipping on all print edition packages. All prices are USD. Ohio residents will be charged sales tax.
Updated 15 June 2010: the book is now available for order. Please see here. Thank you again for all your support during the pre-order period!


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