How to Promote Your Children's Book: Tips, Tricks, and Secrets to Create a Bestseller [Kindle Edition]

Katie Davis (Author)

Book Description

Children's author/illustrator Katie Davis has written a comprehensive guide in an easy, conversational style with 30 chapters chock full of practical advice, including plotting your strategy, using social media, how to grow your mailing list, and how to use videos in ways in addition to book trailers. There are unexpected ideas to promote a book and a huge list of Do's and Don'ts shared by well known published authors. Every chapter is stocked with real life examples of how published authors and illustrators succeeded with creative and unique ways to promote their own books. There are even examples of ideas that didn't work. Every contributor is linked, the sources and resources are just a click away, too. Each chapter ends with a homework assignment designed to motivate and kickstart the reader on the path to promote his or her book, helping to build a career writing children's books.

Product Details

• File Size: 2307 KB
• Print Length: 212 pages
• Publisher: Katie Davis; 1 edition (January 8, 2012)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B006V7RWRK
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Not Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #299,105 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #65 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Children's eBooks > People & Places > Careers

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent! January 15, 2012

By Sharon Stanley

Format:Kindle Edition

This one publication is better than every other article I have read on promotion...EVERY other thing....I joined all the organizations and have researched lots of sites on writing children's lit and promotion in particular, but this book covered it better than all the others...plus I loved all the links. ... such an in-depth, yet easy to understand book.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Not Just for Beginners April 25, 2012

By Laura Purdie Salas

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

I knew Katie Davis' book would be good. I've been listening to her podcast (Brain Burps About Books) lately, and the episodes are always chock-full of useful stuff. I've got lots of educational market books out plus three trade books out. I blog, Facebook, and do a lot of promotional stuff, including an online book launch, online teacher extension materials, etc. But Katie's book still offered me tons more ideas for things I want to check out. She makes the ideas that I'm a little nervous about feel much more do-able because she gives basic tips and encouragement and lots of links and examples (and a good dose of practicality and humor). I have a list of about a dozen tasks that I plan to do in the next month just based on my first read. And I know I'll be reading it again. Highly recommended for all kids'/ya writers, whether you have 1 book or 100.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent and Inspiring March 12, 2012

By Arthur Slade

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

Katie Davis has done a wonderful job of bringing together the various ways in which you can promote your book. I've already started to use them for my own work and, even though I've been in the game for years, I learned many new methods and many ways to improve my old methods. The book is easy to follow and told in a very approachable manner. All of the links are pure gold. I read the book on my iPad and was able to click over to various examples and then click right back to the next. Extremely helpful!

More About the Author

Children's author/illustrator Katie Davis has published ten books, nine of them for children and one for adults, an eBook, How to Promote Your Children's Book: Tips, Tricks, and Secrets to Create a Bestseller. She appears monthly on the ABC affiliate show, Good Morning CT, recommending great books for kids.

Katie produces a podcast, Brain Burps About Books; she writes a blog and monthly newsletter; and has designed and hosted webinars, all in an effort to "spread the gospel of kidlit."

The book trailer Katie created for Little Chicken's Big Day was a finalist for a Moby award, and both her trailer for Kindergarten Rocks!, and Little Chicken's Big Day were finalists (in a field of four!) for a School Library Journal Trailee Award, with the latter winning!

Katie has served as a Cybils judge multiple times, and has also judged the Golden Kite, smartwriters.com. Katie has taught in a maximum security prison teaching Writing for Children and over the last dozen years has presented and keynoted at schools, writing conferences, and fundraising galas.