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 recently had a wonderful invitation to come and read Poster Girl at a Barnes & Noble bookfair hosted by Change 1 Child in Brooklyn. A book reading and signing at Barnes & Noble in New York, how cool does that sound?
I asked the Change 1 Child organizer, Simone, if they would [...]
Two things have held me back from selling more books.
1) Lack of time
2) Not being a natural in sales — okay, I was downright bad at marketing and promotion
Growing up, when a salesman knocked at the door, they were considered a pest. A salesperson who called on the phone? Worse yet. So, [...]
Okay, I have to post today for two reasons.
1) I haven’t posted in a while and I’ve noticed the longer I go without blogging, the more hesitant I am to blog. It’s as though I either feel that if I haven’t written in a while, then I need to have something REALLY good [...]
I ran across an interesting site the other day — BookMooch.com, a community for exchanging used books. Generally most books that I read that I don’t necessarily want to read a second time, I try to sell used on Amazon. But there are many where it’s possible you could even lose money [...]
U.S. Trade Printers of Four Color Books
I compiled the following list of U.S. four-color book printers for the current edition of Could You, Should You Self-Publish a Picture Book? in late 2006.
I recently verified that all printers are still in business printing and have the capabilities to print a children’s picture book (or other book [...]
I was emailing a new children’s writer and realized that I had spelled out the most essential lessons to writing good stories. Perhaps you’re interested in my 1-minute advice on writing. If so, here it is:
I attended a Children’s Writer’s Bootcamp (which I recommend if one is held nearby). One formula they [...]
Almost everyone has read The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham and How the Grinch Stole Christmas , but how many of other Seuss books have you read and what do you remember about them?
Here is a fun quiz about Dr. Seuss books and Dr. Seuss characters. If you think there [...]
Amazon had just announced the Kindle 2.0’s features and the reviews were still coming out, when Author’s Guild stated that the Kindle’s ability to read text aloud, violated copyright laws.
“They don’t have the right to read a book out loud,” said Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild. “That’s an audio right, which is [...]
Tags: amazon kindle, Amazon Kindle 2 Review, amazon kindle reader, kindle 2, kindle amazon, the kindleAmazon Kindle Review — 2.0 Update
Having read through and summarized customer reviews on the original Amazon original, I was curious about what improvements the new Amazon 2.0 Kindle Reader would offer.
Here is a list of the official Kindle Reader 2.0 features from Amazon (along with unofficial commentary):
Slim: Just over 1/3 of an inch, [...]
I had seen another publisher comment on how easy it is to publish your books and ebooks as Amazon Kindle Ebooks. “Just save your document as HTML and upload it. That’s all there is to it,” they said. And at first glance when I went to www.digitaltextplatform.com, it did appear almost that simple.
I created my [...]
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