Katie Davis

How to Promote Your Children’s Book

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This book has 30 chapters, 217 pages, each with homework to help you get motivated and started on your path to promote your book, and build your career. Over 60 authors, illustrators, and librarians contributed countless (I tried but lost track) pieces of advice to promote your book and support your career. There are resources, links, and videos

Recommendations:

Cheers for this mighty useful, mighty rich new book! This is a great tool!

Emma D Dryden
children’s editorial & publishing consultant, drydenbks LLC

Picture book writers looking to chart a course through the publicity maze should check out  Katie Davis’s e-book How to Promote Your Children’s Book: Tips, Tricks, and Secrets to Create a Bestseller. Katie covers everything an author might need. She provides an overview of the options and gives step by step guidance about  where to begin and how to continue. She’s enthusiastic and experienced and her message is clear: you CAN do this – and have fun at the same time. Packed with resources, samples and examples, and saturated with Katie’s warmth and enthusiasm, this book could save your promotional life.

Simone Kaplan
picture book editor, consultant, coach

“…this one publication is better than every other article I have read on promotion…EVERY other thing….I joined all the organizations and have researched lots of sites on writing children’s lit and promotion in particular, but your book covered it better than all the others…plus I loved all the links. Thanks for such an in-depth, yet easy to understand book. Bless your heart Katie Davis.”

Sharon Stanley
aspiring author

How do you keep your children’s book from drowning in the “sea of books” published every year? In her book, How to Promote Your Children’s Book, Author/Illustrator Katie Davis has put together many “tips, tricks, and secrets” in a helpful, informative, and entertaining way. I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting innovative ideas for promoting a new book.

Ruth Sanderson
author/illustrator

Katie Davis is my hero! How to Promote Your Children’s Book is an amazing reference that no author should be without. Katie cuts through the hype, confusion and fear of self-promotion with sound advice, practical application and a ton of how-to resources. Her tone is down-to-earth as she generously shares what she knows, shows what works and what doesn’t and encourages us to shine with easy-to-complete homework tasks. Above all, she reminds us to keep our marketing real and to genuinely connect with our readers – something she has elevated to an art form!

Lisa Tiffin
freelance writer

The I Hate Twitter and 9 Other Stupid Things to Stop Saying and Enhance Your Career Using Social Media Video Series

This is a two-hour plus video tutorial series recorded during my webinar, I Hate Twitter and 9 Other Stupid Things to Stop Saying and Enhance Your Career Using Social Media.
Across seven (15 minute-ish) videos, these questions are all answered:

• Why bother?
• Do I have to join all the social networks?
• What do I do if I feel overwhelmed?
• I don’t get it! (Okay, not a question, but you’ll get it after you watch the video in any case!)
• What if I make a mistake?
• What if I don’t know anyone online?
• I can’t make money or anything though, right? (A little preview: wrong!)
• What do I tweet? Blog about? Say?
• Where do I get the time to do all this stuff?

How to Make a Smart Dummy Video Tutorial

Want to know how to make a picture book dummy? Are you a writer and wonder whether you even need to create a dummy? Download this 12 minute video tutorial and you will learn:

• how and why to create a dummy
• how published authors and illustrators create dummies
• how to “buy room” in your dummy for more space for your story
• what to put into your dummy
• whether or not to include art notes, and when you should

Little Chicken’s Big Day Onesie

100% cotton onesie made by American Apparel. Available in 12 – 18 month size only. Super cute. Like, incredibly, right? Imagine this as a gift with my book, Little Chicken’s Big Day? Oooo. Aaahhh. $16 plus tax and shipping

Scared Guy Love Your Mother Earth Tee

Scared Guy made a big hit in the late 80′s and early 90′s when people were stressed out about the economy – wait. Whaaaat?

After many years of people asking me if I had any Scared Guy stuff left, I’ve finally gone into the vaults and dragged a few limited supplies out for his adoring public! So yep, there is a limited number available so get ‘em now, while your loved ones are stressed out and need a Scared Guy, so they don’t have to be!

• Size:  24″ W X 32″ L
• Wide cut
• Material: nice, thick cotton.
• Color: white with colors and stays bright and strong with many washings.

NOTE: the back of this tee has the same graphic in the same size except, Scared Guy isn’t there and in his place it says LOVE YOUR MOTHER (next to the “earth” flag).

Scared Guy - Spiral Tee

SOLD OUT!

Scared Guy made a big hit in the late 80′s and early 90′s when people were stressed out about the economy – wait. Whaaaat?

After many years of people asking me if I had any Scared Guy stuff left, I’ve finally gone into the vaults and dragged a few limited supplies out for his adoring public! So yep, there is a limited number available so get ‘em now, while your loved ones are stressed out and need a Scared Guy, so they don’t have to be!

• Size: Big Big: 27″ W x 26″ L
• Wide cut
• Material: nice, thick cotton.
• Color: black with red and stays bright and strong with many washings.

NOTE: On the front of this Scared Guy tee shirt, on the left breast pocket area (NO pocket), there is a small version of this image, about 5″ around. Like all the Scared Guy tees, the color washes fabulously! You’ll be wearing this shirt for years.

Scared Guy - Giant Face tee

Scared Guy made a big hit in the late 80′s and early 90′s when people were stressed out about the economy – wait. Whaaaat?

After many years of people asking me if I had any Scared Guy stuff left, I’ve finally gone into the vaults and dragged a few limited supplies out for his adoring public! So yep, there is a limited number available so get ‘em now, while your loved ones are stressed out and need a Scared Guy, so they don’t have to be!

• Size:  24″ W X 32″ L
• Wide cut
• Material: nice, thick cotton.
• Color: white with black line and stays bright and strong with many washings.

Scared Guy - Red tee

Scared Guy made a big hit in the late 80′s and early 90′s when people were stressed out about the economy – wait. Whaaaat?

After many years of people asking me if I had any Scared Guy stuff left, I’ve finally gone into the vaults and dragged a few limited supplies out for his adoring public! So yep, there is a limited number available so get ‘em now, while your loved ones are stressed out and need a Scared Guy, so they don’t have to be!

• Size:  MEDIUM 19″ W X 28″ L
• Regular cut
• Material: nice, thick cotton.
• Color: red with black and white and stays bright and strong with many washings.