It’s common to think how easy it must be to write children’s books, dreaming of a shiny pile of colourful book covers, hoping that your children’s book is the one that parents roll their eyes at because their children ask for it again and again and again!
Authors often ask me how to get that magic piece of writing at the beginning of the book.
Did you know that the Australian library system can pay you a small ‘royalty’ for books held in a library?
Did you know that the Cataloguing in Publication service (CiP) has been changed? It’s now called the Prepublication Data Service (PDS).
Some of the best books in the world are there, pretty much fully formed, inside the author’s head. And there they stay, keeping you up at night while you think of more fabulous ways to explain your concept, rewriting it all inside your head.
The introduction may appear at the start of your book, but don’t get caught up trying to perfect it before you write the rest of the manuscript.
In writing her book Healing the Heart of Your Business, Lisa Fitzpatrick has had to push through a serious bout of writer’s block, a chronic case of not good enough and recurring rounds of it’s impossible to finish.
This post was written by my delightful, driven and deeply committed client Cas McCullough and was originally published on casmccullough.com.
The time around your book launch is critical. It’s the easiest time to get media, even though you are probably at your most exhausted.
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