Self-Publishing, Children’s Books and Me — The Good, The Bad, The Ugly of All Three. Questions about self-publishing children\’s books are welcome and will be added to FAQ if appropriate.
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I’m reading the story of Percy Jackson, in The Lightning Thief and I haven’t been this excited about a book series since Harry Potter. . I do vaguely remember hearing this book mentionned at a children’s writing conference, but it certainly hasn’t had the buzz that Harry Potter did and yet… I like [...]
And now, to conclude my online interview of Adirondack Kids series author, Gary VanRiper, I asked …
Me: Do you have a particular technique in terms of marketing and promotion that has worked really well for you?
Gary: Wow. So much could be said on the subject of marketing and promotion. It should be understood by every [...]
So here is more of my question/answer email interview with Gary VanRiper, author/publisher of the Adirondack Kids series
Me: Your arrangement of having a publisher as your distributor is interesting. It sounds as though it was someone who worked at the publishing firm who suggested that? or did you approach them? I’m just [...]
So here is part one of my email/blog interview with children’s book self-publisher Gary VanRiper.
Question: Did you try to have the first Adirondack Kids book published by a traditional publisher?
Gary’s reply: We did approach a regional publisher who expressed interest in our story, but who explained the company was already some two years out on [...]
Over the next week or so, I am going to be posting questions and answers here from an email interview with Gary VanRiper, the dad half of the father/son co-authors of the Adirondack Kids book series. I already sent Gary a few questions, but now as I went to put a link to their [...]
Here are some frequently mentionned advantages of self-publishing:
Control over the book’s promotion and availability: If book sales are slow initially, you can continue to market and promote the book, whereas a traditional publisher will usually remainder the book AND may now deem you as an author with a poor sales record.
Greater potential profit: While [...]
So as I mentionned in the last post, our youngest son left for college this year, leaving us semi-retired as parents. I say semi-retired because Dan still depends on us in many ways — financial being the most obvious, but he still looks for guidance and we still see him, talk to him, or [...]
Even though my youngest son started college almost two months ago now, I haven’t seen the burst of writing productivity I hoped for. In fact, I really haven’t been writing at all. Hmm…
Around the time Dan left for school, I had a book recommended to me - Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
It [...]
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Well I was feeling a bit ashamed of how little I had been blogging and many of my other slow-moving writing and publishing projects, [...]
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