Podcast #156

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Announcements

• It’s PiBoIdMo! I give my gratitude to Tara Lazar for inviting me to be a part of her guest bloggers. Check out the 30 Day Picture Book Inspiration Infographic. She already has an amazing 224 comments on it.
• It’s Picture Book Month! As one of the co-founders, I’m supporting Picture Book Month with a month-long celebration right here on the show, so come back every Wednesday for the festivities! Also check out the Picture Book Month site here!

• I sold my young adult novel, Dancing with the Devil to Diversion Books, due out last week of March, maybe first week in April.

Indie Publishing Experiment 

• I’m starting an experiment in indie publishing. You can be a part of it – it’s totally free – and learn from my successes and failures for your own process. Just in time for the holidays, meet the cutiepieface star of Little Chicken’s Big Christmas:

I’m creating a Launch Team for Little Chicken’s Big Christmas. Team members will get a review copy of the book and in exchange will be asked to post an honest review on Amazon during a specific time period, probably somewhere around Thanksgiving. If you want to stay on top of this and be on the team, follow my process, and learn more on how to market your own independently published book, I’ve created a special mailing list just for this purpose.
UPDATE: Membership is now closed, but I’ll be keeping everyone in the know as this adventure progresses through my blog and podcast!

In This Week’s Episode You’ll Hear

• How Tomie dePaola says he’s not an icon and you won’t believe how he says it. Seriously. You will not.
• About the quote “The courage to allow yourself to fail.”
• About Tomie’s Tomie dePaola Award
• How to surprise Tomie.
• The name of the best author he ever worked with for character development.

Check out Tomie’s latest book

Even Tomie uses video!

Zen Master Tomie from Jarrett Krosoczka on Vimeo.

 
Sometimes I use affiliate links. if you click on them and buy what I recommend, I earn a referral fee. You do not pay any more than if you found the same thing through a search engine. It’s akin to going to a restaurant and getting a recommendation from the waitress on what’s good. You don’t pay more for the food she suggests, but you might tip her for her service.
In any case I never, ever, ever, ever, ever, recommend a product or person I don’t believe in or trust. Otherwise, how would you believe me next time?