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.
On a private writing forum, I was appending to a thread about self-published children’s titles that have made it big. I had heard this question before, “What self-published children’s books have done really well?” and thought that I would occasionally write a blog post on a successful book or books that were self-published. [...]
Yesterday’s mail brought disappointment in one envelope and a postcard of encouragement.
The disappointment was a nice letter from Writer’s Digest telling me that they appreciated me entering Poster Girl in their 16th Annual International Self-Published Book Awards, but that not everyone could be a winner and I wasn’t and gosh here was a nice certificate [...]
The following assertions/observations were recently stated on Yahoo Answers by a ‘Top Contributor’. They wrote:
with Self publishing:
– you pay them
– no quality control (no editing, poor printing in many cases)
– you have to market the book
– real stores and libraries do not want them (being ‘available for order’ is not the same as being on [...]
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