Writing, Publishing And Marketing Books For Children With Crystal Swain-Bates
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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How can you write a children's story with a message without being preachy? How can you find and work effectively with an illustrator? How can you market your book to kids in schools? Crystal Swain Bates gives her tips on writing, publishing and marketing books for children, as well as how we can make books […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Creative Pen podcast. I'm Joanna Penn, thriller author and creative entrepreneur, |
| 0:09.0 | bringing you interviews, inspiration and information on writing, publishing options and marketing ideas for your book. |
| 0:17.0 | You can find the episode show notes, your free author blueprint and lots more information at |
| 0:23.0 | TheCreativepen.com. And that's Pen with a double N. And here's the show. |
| 0:30.7 | Hello, creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. And this is episode number 545 of the podcast. And it is Friday |
| 0:37.3 | the 9th of April, 2021, as I record this. |
| 0:40.8 | In today's show, I'm talking about writing, publishing and marketing books for children with Crystal Swain Bates. |
| 0:47.8 | Now, so many of you ask me about this topic and it's not something I do myself, and to be honest, |
| 0:53.0 | many of Crystal's tips are relevant to all authors. |
| 0:56.1 | We talk about writing a positioning statement for your book, how to write a story, not a lecture, |
| 1:02.4 | finding an illustrator and dealing with contracts, the best print-on-demand services, book |
| 1:07.5 | marketing in schools, and encouraging diversity in our characters and in the author community. |
| 1:14.4 | So that's coming up in the interview section. |
| 1:18.9 | In publishing news and just general things, the Alliance of Independent Authors has a great post on library distribution, |
| 1:26.7 | something you can do with your e-books and |
| 1:28.6 | audiobooks if you publish wide and, of course, with your print books through Ingram Spark. |
| 1:33.4 | And it's such a great way to market your books, which is tell your readers they can get your |
| 1:38.0 | books for free at the library if they order through their library portal for e-books or |
| 1:42.3 | audiobooks or ask their librarian to order. |
| 1:45.3 | And of course, yes, you can get all my books. |
| 1:47.6 | Well, not all of them. |
| 1:48.5 | Almost all of them are everywhere from your library. |
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