Outta’ this world blog

December 19, 2023 — First and foremost, this is a reminder about our contest and you can read all about how people of all ages can enter on a recent blog post: Children’s activity — with “surPRIZES.” Full disclosure, I don’t have any entries yet so your chances are quite good! And the prizes are pretty darn cute. There’s no purchase necessary and it’s fairly easy, yet creative and fun.

In other news, I’m OVER THE MOON to announce that “How Happy Is a Lark?” placed in all four categories entered in the Royal Dragonfly Book Awards by Story Monsters Ink. I received a second place (tie) for Best New Author - Fiction! And we received Honorable Men

November 28, 2023 — There’s a good amount to cover about marketing your self-published picture book so I’ll break this topic into more than one post. I’ll begin with some of the more obvious ideas and move on to some of the tactics that you might not think of right away. There are things I wish I’d known sooner. But, we’ll get to that. 

Fortunately, I have a dear friend, Nancy Rosen, a former client who I used to do freelance public relations writing for, who’s a marketing whiz. She tipped me off about the importance of presales for upcoming books and so I created a number of social media posts starting several months before publication, encouraging people to preorder my book. I didn’t get enough presales to ma