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 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 [...]
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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Return to the Hundred Acre Wood: In Which Winnie-the-Pooh Enjoys Further Adventures with Christopher Robin and His Friends
Winnie the Pooh sequel is available NOW - audiobook read by Jim Dale
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, [...]
I ran across this video the other day
While I’d heard the poem before, somehow the images chosen really drive the poem’s message home for me. Even the music seems the perfect fit for those moments when I’m pausing… when I’m feeling as though my publishing goals are still so far off… well [...]
Today I threw out my 2004 (only copy I had) Chase’s Calendar of Events.
Why? Chase’s Calendar of Events is a very nice publication with lots of interesting write-ups about holidays and events big and small. You can find out what famous people were born on a specific date and upcoming festivals, contests, etc.
When I [...]
Hi,
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 [...]
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 [...]
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