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Game Changing Technology For Self Publishing Children’s Picture Books With Laura Backes
OLD POST ALERT! This is an older post and although you might find some useful tips, any technical or publishing information is likely to be out of date. Please click on Start Here on the menu bar above to find links to my most useful articles, videos and podcast. Thanks and happy writing! – Joanna PennUp until recently, one of the hardest markets to self-publish in has been the children's picture book market.
But that has now all changed with the launch of KDP Kindle Kids' Book Creator, a tool from Amazon to help publish image-based books for children.
This could be a game-changer! In today's podcast, I discuss this new tool with Laura Backes, who teaches people how to use it with her Picture Ebook Mastery course.
In the introduction, I talk about finishing my draft of One Day in New York, recording in a professional studio for my non-fiction audiobooks, changing my podcast logo to include a face, and my speaking events for 2015 – including March in Charleston at Pubsense and May in London on Making a Living with your Writing.
This podcast episode is sponsored by 99 Designs, where you can get all kinds of designs for your author business including book covers, merchandising, branding and business cards, illustrations and artwork and much more. You can get a Powerpack upgrade which gives your project more chance of getting noticed by going to: 99Designs.com/joanna
Laura Backes is a children’s writing teacher and has been published by Writer’s Digest, The Writer, Random House as well as independently publishing. She has been producing the Children’s Book Insider, the Newsletter for Children’s Writers for 25 years alongside her husband, Jon. She has also produced the Picture Ebook Mastery course which we're talking about today. You can use promo code penn and get $20 off.
You can listen above or on iTunes or Stitcher, watch the interview on YouTube here or read the notes and links below.
* Laura's background with over 30 years in the publishing industry and how she has developed a business helping authors writing for children.
Current state of digital for kids books.
* Survey from K-lytics: People are buying more children's books in digital format. Print books are not going away but often people buy both formats because kids love to read the same book over and over again. It's easy to buy a new ebook and download it immediately if your child needs distraction – it's an impulse buy.