3 Tips for Self-Publishing Your Children's Book

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Top 3 Tips If you want to self-publish your children’s book @denisevegabooks

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Top 3 TipsIf you want to self-publish

your children’s book

@denisevegabooks

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By “children’s book,” I assume HERE THAT you mean a children’s picture book

FYI

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Learn the craft of writing picture books1

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Take classes

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Read lots and lots of children’s books

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Study lots and lots of children’s books (read like a writer)

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Write the very best story you are capable of writing

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Write, write, write

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Revise, revise, revise

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Get quality feedback &revise some more!

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Invest in professionals3

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Hire a professional children’s book editor & copyeditor

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Hire a children’s book illustrator(not a general illustrator)

Illustration  samples  courtesy  of  Erin  Eitter  Kono  for  Grandmother,  Have  The  Angels  Come?  by  Denise  Vega

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Hire a children’s book designer

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deserve

CHILDREN

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The very best bookyou can give them

so…

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Take time to

LEARN THE CRAFT

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WRITE AND REVISE

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Hire the best CHILDREN’S BOOK PROFESSIONALS

you can find

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And publish a WELL-­‐WRITTEN, professionally edited, professionally designed

children’s book

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That you are proud of…

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AND KIDS LOVE!