Comments on: The Honest Truth About How Much Money Children’s Authors Make

By: Rosalyn Adekunle

Rosalyn Adekunle — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 18:53:01 +0000

My niche is LOW VISION/ BUILDING SELF ESTEEM AND CONFIDENCE . I believe we have to start at the beginning. My book are directed at pre-elementary school. Every book I sell gives me joy (not many sales). One child at a time?

By: Kira Carrillo Corser

Kira Carrillo Corser — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 22:57:27 +0000

I wrote and self published 5 children’s books, created to help kids 3 to 7 years old cope with illness, pain and fear. These are Rhymes for Wellness and a beautiful parent/teacher guide is included in each 30 page book. I was doing this through Costco printing and they looked great. Now I am looking at Ingram Spark and trying to figure out how to do it all with bar codes. I have the ISBN numbers. I look forward to printing more under Compassionate Arts.org as a publisher, which is my company that operates as a nonprofit community based organization. Thank you for your information!

By: Arthur Gerald

Arthur Gerald — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 02:32:16 +0000

In reply to Tamara Brinton.

Hello Tamara,
I am interested in your book. If you’d be do kind to contact me at 2ag4nw@gmail.com.
Sincerely, ag

By: Samantha

Samantha — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 03:26:41 +0000

In reply to Anna Maledon.

Hi Anna

Have you started on publishing your own book yet? what has that journey been like for you so far.
Kindly Samantha

By: Sabrina Marshall

Sabrina Marshall — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 23:03:00 +0000

I retired recently and, I enjoy writing. When I was in college, I wrote a children’s story. My professor at that time graded it and said ,”not bad at all.” In fact, she edited it for me; besides, I am working on four other stories for children along with a book of my thoughts about life. I am new to this and, I would like to share my children stories with the world as well as my thought about life so, I am glad that I have learned few things about publishing. Thank you!

By: Melodious Mutt

Melodious Mutt — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 21:56:43 +0000

Self-publishing is the only way for me. But I won’t sugarcoat it and make any claims of grandeur. It’s challenging on a good day. I’ve released two children’s books in collaboration with a successful Arizona artist. I’m a bit unique in that I also include an original song. That combination has been helpful. Not to mention my years in the music business and content creation. But keep in mind, it’s imperative you don’t approach self-publishing with any sense of romance. You must be authentic and friendly while also being highly professional and resilient. For me, that meant establishing a proper LLC along with learning how to build custom websites, hiring artists for custom logos, using a stellar print shop, creating a Shopify store, sending email after email and so on. So don’t be afraid. Just be ready.

By: zoe

zoe — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 00:55:50 +0000

In reply to Anna Maledon. Absolutely agree, self-publishing is the way to go!

By: Sindy Johnston

Sindy Johnston — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 17:28:26 +0000

I have written 10 children books and illustrated 3 so far. None of them published yet. Still waiting for the day to self publish them. I enjoy sharing my stories with everyone and getting the feedback to make them better. It’s definitely a labour of love ❤️. One day I hope to share them with the world. As for now …I just keep writing.

By: Tamara Brinton

Tamara Brinton — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 17:17:37 +0000

I’m so happy to find this site. I have a children’s book written by my late grandfather I never met. My Father is alive at 85 and wants me to try and get this out to others. If it sells well are not. It is a beautiful story about the PNW (Pacific Northwest and an Island. It is sooo good in our opinion that it could be made into a movie. This book was written over 60 years ago.It needs to be shared with others and not just sit in a brief case.

I know this is too much info ,but your site did help me think and get ideas. I’m NOT stopping to figure this “Book” could be something special.

Thank you for your time,
Tamara J Brinton

By: Anna Maledon

Anna Maledon — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 17:23:27 +0000

In reply to Denis Gaston.

You are so right! That’s why after long research I decided to self-publish instead. The numbers are just not promising with traditional publishers. 3.5%-5% royalties per book? In the UK most picture books are paperbacks and they sell for £6.99, so the authors don’t earn much at all and still, they have to do some marketing to push their books.

That is not to say that I will never publish with a traditional publisher, but as we know most don’t make a living out of it. It’s pretty sad for the reasons you mentioned above.