So You Want To Publish A Children’s Book
Have you considered the fact that children’s books are often the top selling books in the book publishing industry? For thousands of years, children have loved hearing and reading stories. Haven’t you made up stories and tales to tell your own children?
Today, books written with children in mind can really capture the attention of children. Delighting children is easier with all the glitter that is available along with holograms and pop-ups. Because of this, the children’s book publishing industry has soared.
Up until recently, it was the very large book publishers that dominated the publishing of children’s books But now, just about anyone can publish their own children’s book with all the technology that is available today. Hard copies or electronic versions – it’s your choice! You could design your own graphics with free programs like Gimp to go along with your text. Of course, if graphics isn’t your thing, you probably know a person who can help in this area.
If you are unable to find anyone who can help you at no cost with your graphics, there are many good graphic designers available and who would probably be willing to help you at a cost lower than a professional might. Colleges and high schools have many great students who can do an excellent job for you.
You can produce your manuscript in a few different electronic formats, today. Selling PDF files directly from your website may be the simplest way to do it. Payment methods such as PayPal would make such a venture fairly simple, and setting up such a website where this is the primary goal are not as difficult as it was years ago.
Amazon Kindle format is also a popular option for the delivery of your work. Many authors are now writing and formatting their books for Kindle and are able to use the Power of Amazon.Imagine the possibilities with the millions of customers that Amazon.com has.
Advertising your new book doesn’t require a huge budget either. You should definitely have a website and this can be done without much money these days. You can get hosting for less than $9.WordPress is free and many hosts offer it as part of their hosting packages, which you could build your site on. You can find very nice themes with training on how to install them, and then simply add content to create your site.
Getting good traffic to your website will be the hardest thing to do. But, you love to write so you could find other websites like blogs that are related to books aimed at children, and submit articles to them. Although you won’t likely get paid for those articles, you will most likely get a valuable back link to your website.
Consider submitting articles to article directories such as EzineArticles.com. Use the “resource box” differently than how others use by placing a link with good anchor text and a call to action in there.
There are probably quite a few things you could write about in 500 word articles. Other aspiring authors may be looking for information on how to write books. How about an article on how you published your own book? Or write some articles that are about the topic of your children’s book and lead the reader back to your site, wanting more from you!
The means and resources are costing less and less for the individual author are making the traditional book publishing model less effective. With a bit of work, some research and dedication, you can be a part of this and put your children’s book into the hands of little ones and their parents!
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