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 self-publishing.com.

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Hey, Chandler Bolt here and joining me today is the extremely talented Elaine Erci.

She's one of our coaches at self-publishing schools.

She's the author of two books.

If you're watching this on the YouTube channel, you can see both of them in the background and her awesome background.

And so one is adult nonfiction,

and one is a children's book. And she's also coached tons of our students at self-publishing school, completed hundreds of coaching calls. So you're in for a treat here. Elaine's awesome.

We're going to be talking about today in this interview, how to turn your

nonfiction book into a children's book. So a lot of people ask about this. Maybe you heard

Ruth Sukup talk a little bit about this on her podcast episode. We just scratched the surface

there. So we're going to go in depth. Elaine is one of our children's book coaches. So she's got

and she just turned her nonfiction

book into a children's book. So you've got a lot of wisdom to share here. So you're in for a treat.

I'm super excited. Elaine, welcome. Great to have you. Thanks, Chandler. I appreciate you having me.

Yeah. So let's dive in. So first and foremost, why may, well, actually, let's a two-part question. Why did you write your first book?

And then why did you decide to turn that book into a children's book? Great question. I think my

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