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The Knitgrrl Guide to Professional Knitwear Design: How to Keep Your Knits About You by Shannon Okey is now available from 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 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.

All prices are USD, and Ohio residents will be charged sales tax.

Update on shipping prices: Good news! We have updated our shipping system to automatically calculate shipping prices. US shipping is $5, Canada is $8 and rest-of-world is $12. Shipping prices are only applied to the print and print + digital package, of course!

Print only: $22.95

Digital only (PDF): $16.95

Print + digital: $22.95

Amazon Kindle format (.mobi)¹ or iPhone, Barnes & Noble Nook, Sony Reader and other e-reader formats (.epub)²: $14.95

Make sure admin@knitgrrl.com is added to the ’safe’ list inside your email program to ensure you receive any emails relating to the download. For e-book readers, please let us know which file format you need in the comments during checkout.

The Guide is also available on Amazon. If you find it useful, we’d certainly appreciate a review there!

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1) You will need to manually load the file onto your Kindle, either via USB cable or by emailing it to your assigned Kindle email address. We plan to offer direct downloads from Amazon after 30 June 2010. Prices may change at that time at Amazon’s discretion.

2) Load the file onto your iPhone or other e-book reader according to the device’s directions. We hope to offer direct downloads for the B&N Nook soon, but prices may change depending on factors currently beyond our control.

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!