Lula's Brew - Best selling app becomes a print picture book

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Bestselling App Becomes Children’s Picture Book

Irvine, CA

As one of the first picture book apps, Lula’s Brew sold over 10,000 copies and left fans clamoring for a print edition. Wanting a specialist children’s ebook publishing, author/illustrator Elizabeth Dulemba contacted Xist Publishing, a digital-first publisher of children’s books, to see if there was a way to transform the app into a book.

“When Elizabeth approached me with Lula’s Brew, I knew it would be an excellent fit for Xist Publishing.  Our mission is to encourage a lifetime love of reading in kids--no matter the form it takes--so bringing a beloved children’s book app to print, as well as creating a new edition for the Kindle Fire is exactly the type of project that we like to get behind.” said CEO of Xist Publishing, Calee Lee.

Lula’s Brew tells the story of a little witch who would rather cook than cast spells. For the print edition, author/illustrator Elizabeth Dulemba expanded upon the existing illustrations to create 16 full spreads just in time for a Halloween launch.

Lula’s Brew is now available in hardcover, paperback,  and as a children’s ebook in .epub and .mobi with text-tap-to-zoom for the Kindle Fire and Android tablets. It is also available in the iTunes app store where the Kirkus review describes it as, “the rhymed narrative features amusing cultural touches parents and older readers will appreciate...The colored-pencil illustrations are attractive and look good on the iPad’s screen.”

About Elizabeth Dulemba
Elizabeth Dulemba is the award-winning author of fifteen children’s books including The 12 Days of Christmas in Georgia; Paco and the Giant Chile Plant (a Moonbeam Bronze medalist); and Soap, soap, soap.

About Xist Publishing
Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and launched its first children’s ebook in July 2011.  With a digital-first strategy, each of  their 135 children’s books was developed first as an ebook and later made available in print.  Xist Publishing  books and authors have been featured on Good Morning America, US News & World Report, The Pioneer Woman, Shelf Awareness, Digital Book World and more.  To learn more, please visit http://xistpublishing.com

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Author Bio:

Elizabeth O. Dulemba, also known as “e-e-e,” is an award-winning author and/or illustrator of fifteen children’s books including such titles as Soap, soap, soap and The 12 Days of Christmas in Georgia. She enjoys casting spells on her children’s book community in her roles as Illustrator Coordinator for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators southern region, as a board member for the Georgia Center for the Book, as a writing and illustration instructor at various universities and venues, and by speaking regularly at schools and events where she mesmerizes her audiences. Her “Coloring Page Tuesday” images garner over a million spooky visitors to her blog annually, and she has over 3,000 subscribers to her weekly newsletter. To download Lula-themed coloring pages, word find puzzles, computer wallpaper and the actual ghoulish recipe for Lula’s brew, visitwww.dulemba.com and click on the cover.

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