Part IV

Getting Published

In this part . . .

Now that the creative work is done, it’s time to take care of business: selling your manuscript to a children’s book publisher. The mere thought of opening yourself up to rejection by professionals can be unnerving, I know, but it doesn’t have to be. To help you submit with confidence, I tell you how to submit, what to submit, and whom to submit to. And if all this submission hullabaloo isn’t your thing, I give you the skinny on self-publishing so you can decide whether it’s the publication path for you. Either way, you need to do some serious marketing when your book gets published, and this part has extensive guidance for publicizing, networking, and building a platform in the virtual age.