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.
So I’ve been rereading Beverly Cleary’s autobiography, A Girl from Yamhill and I latched on to one short passage from the time I had for reading this morning.
Cleary wrote that the local shoe store announced a contest sponsored by Keds shoes for the best essay about an animal and that many in her class [...]
Sigh…. so much for me allowing you to follow along with the live progress.
As my son would say, “Worst blogger ever” — ha ha…
The Kindle ebook came out the first week in February (almost 3 weeks ago). I can’t remember when exactly. It is a non-fiction book for adults with a pen [...]
So I got back the epub draft from Bookbaby, which had one small error that I sent back to correct. Meanwhile realizing how close to publication date we are, has sent me into a flurry of activity on writing guest blog posts and looking for potential reviewers.
Someone on AbsoluteWrite.com forums referenced this [...]
Tags: Amazon Kindle Ebooks, digital book publishing, publishing kindle ebook, Self-PublishingWow, quite a shocker on the Newbery Medal Award Winners for 2012. Only one of the favorites was an award recipient. In what many people considered a very strong year in children’s books, the crowd gave an audible groan or murmer when it was announced there were TWO Honor Books chosen (fewer than average).
The Newbery [...]
So a quick departure from my series of posts on publishing on Kindle because it’s THAT time of year. Time to predict and then discover what great children’s book will win the Newbery Award this year.
And when exactly, you ask do they announce the winners? The Newbery and Caldecott award winners will be [...]
So yesterday I finished the revisions my copyeditor suggested and submitted my ebook “manuscript” to Bookbaby. I should receive a notice in the next couple weeks when the epub is ready for review. So in the meantime I need to:
- finish my blog setup
- write some blog posts
- decide what contact information I [...]
Tags: BookBaby review, digital book publishing, kindle ebook publishing, Self-PublishingSince I started my “Publishing a Kindle ebook” series on day 1 of the year, it makes it easy to figure out what day this is.
So what have I done in the last 9 days.
I hired the ebook cover creator and chose which image she created that I liked best.
I finished writing and [...]
Tags: BookBaby review, digital book publishing, kindle ebook publishing, Self-PublishingSo today I worked with the Kindle ebook cover designer, reviewing a possible photo to use, text and the look I am hoping to achieve. I also followed up on some advice a friend gave that Smashwords.com also offers a single interface to publish to multiple digital publishers. It does not charge an [...]
Okay, so today I got an answer back on the couple of Kindle book cover designers and what they would charge. The answer was that if I had a photo or clear idea of what I wanted it might be as low as $50 - $150, but that if I wanted to see lots [...]
So today I found a couple ebook cover designers and emailed them to ask what they charge to create a Kindle book cover. I know someone who got a Kindle cover created on Fiverr.com. They were thrilled with it, but I kind of thought it looked only about as good as you could expect for [...]
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