StillJulie,
My3son's did a great job of sharing our company's thoughts about heading into the next guide. I appreciate your patience in waiting for the new sneak peeks to come at a later juncture this coming year too.
While writing the new World History guide definitely takes precedent right now, I am also researching for the guide to come after this simply because the research process is such a long one.
I have been able to make tremendous gains in the selecting of resources for the new American History guide and am truly excited about this coming guide too. It is going to be different from anything already available for American History, and I am so thankful to be as far in the selection process as I am!
Our plans for the first American History Guide are to follow a similar pattern to what we have been doing for the World History Guide this school year. This will enable families to use the American History Guide a year earlier than if we waited for the guide's completion prior to making it available.
As far as how the writing of the World History Guide is going this school year, I will share that we have incurred considerably more expense than anticipated in aborbing the cost of professionally printing, collating, 3-hole-punching, and shrink-wrapping each section of the World History Guide, and then shipping the installments to customers for free (and also repeating this process for each of the World History Journals and Art Gallery Notebooks). Since I want our customers to receive a clean, beautiful, fully edited professional copy, I am unwilling to switch our method of printing the intallments of plans. So, we already know that in order to cover at least a portion of this expense in the future, we will not be able to offer families a free Teacher's Guide for the American History Guide, as we did for the World History Guide. However, other than the added expense of writing a guide this way, the guide's plans have been coming together nicely in a timely fashion.
It is likely for the future guides that we will offer a promotional similar to that of our previous guides, in offering a free set of notebook pages to those families who pre-order the newest guide.
I must share that I am so thankful to be able to stay ahead of my second oldest son and allow him to use HOD to finish out his high school years!
To save me the deadlines, and our company the added expense, I had considered only making the American History guide available in rough form for my own son (and for my sisters' kiddos) for the 2015-2016 school year, and not making the guide available to the public until it was complete. However, for now, it seems that families are happy and appreciative to have the opportunity to use the World History Guide as it is being written, so we plan to continue on a similar course for the first American History Guide.
I look forward to sharing the journey with many of you in the years ahead.
Blessings,
Carrie
I know it's quite a sacrifice to make the commitment to continue to write and mail out the guide every few weeks next year as well. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!