Welcome to the Self Publishing School podcast. This is the podcast to listen to if you're an

aspiring writer or an author who wants to be more successful. On this show, you'll learn how to

write and launch a book successfully, all from the top authors and people just like you

who are doing it at the highest level. I'm your host, Chandler Bolt, the founder

of self-publishing school, the author of the book called Published and the CEO of

Selfpublishing.com. For free training on how to publish a book that sells 10,000 copies,

go to self-publishing.com forward slash free training.

Hey, Chandler Bolt here and joining me today is Marcy Pusey.

Marcy's actually one of our first students at self-publishing school.

She's the author of multiple books in multiple genres.

So she's written a memoir.

She's written multiple self-help books around adoption and fostering,

and she's written and published a ton of children's books. And that's going to be the focus

of this interview. She's a longtime SPS coached. She's literally coached hundreds of students

and completed. We were just calculating this up before the interview by our best guess, a little over

3,000 coaching calls. She's also the creator of the SPS Children's Book program. So she works with

a lot of children's book authors. And our goal in this interview is to really talk children's books.

So how do you write a children's book? How do you publish your children's book? How do you do it in a way where it's professional? It looks good. Should you self-publish? Should you traditionally publish like all those things she's done both and lessons learned from thousands of calls with SBS students? So our goal is to cover a lot of ground and to help you as much as possible in your journey, but also

help you kind of navigate the landmines and avoid the mistakes that she's seen a lot of students

make over years of coaching, thousands of coaching calls, all those things. So Marcy, super excited

to have you here. Thank you. Thanks for having me. So let's add straight in. So I want to briefly touch on, you know,

we'll kind of go three parts. I want to go why the why behind children's books slash writing of

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