3 tips for self-publishing your children's book

Top 3 TipsIf you want to self-publish

your children’s book

@denisevegabooks

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

FYI

Learn the craft of writing picture books1

Take classes

Read lots and lots of children’s books

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

Write the very best story you are capable of writing

2

Write, write, write

Revise, revise, revise

Get quality feedback &revise some more!

Invest in professionals3

Hire a professional children’s book editor & copyeditor

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

Hire a children’s book designer

deserve

CHILDREN

The very best bookyou can give them

so…

Take time to

LEARN THE CRAFT

WRITE AND REVISE

Hire the best CHILDREN’S BOOK PROFESSIONALS

you can find

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

children’s book

That you are proud of…

AND KIDS LOVE!

To find out more ABOUT WRITING A GREAT

children’s picture book: