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Why are pre-orders important for book sales and authors?

11/7/2019

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Author Andrea Bartz schools us on why it is important to pre-order books -- and especially to pre-order from independent bookstores. This information appeared as a series of tweets on the Twitter. The individual tweets were threaded together by an app called Threader. Very cool, eh? 
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After reading, please consider pre-ordering a book!
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Andrea Bartz@andibartzAuthor of THE LOST NIGHT (@People calls it an "impressive debut with a nerve-racking finish" & Mila Kunis is developing it for TV) & THE HERD (out March 2020)Nov. 05, 2019  

You have probably heard me stating that preordering a book from an independent bookseller is the most impactful thing you can do if you're going to buy an author's book. Lately some of you wonderful people have asked for more detail, so I thought I'd explain! 

WHAT COUNTS AS AN INDIE BOOKSTORE? Click-to-buy (ahem), B&N, and other huge chains aren't independent bookstores. No hate, but I'm talking about locally owned, community booksellers.
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When you preorder from one of those, an actual human sees the sale and thinks, "There's local interest in this book! I should look into it." Maybe they'll be inspired to devote some table space to it when it comes out, or even to read it themselves and make it a staff pick.
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Your preorder from an indie bookstore also makes a book more likely to hit the NYT bestseller list (#dreamingbig), since the Times system heavily weights purchases at small, privately owned book shops.
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HOW CAN I FIND ONE? Go to  http://Indiebound.org  and enter your zip code on the right, where it says "locate an independent, local bookstore." (cc @indiebound)
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BUT WILL THEY STOCK IT? That's where your preorder makes a huge difference: It puts it on the bookseller's radar and makes them more likely to stock it! But even if they decide not to put it on shelves, they will order it just for you and let you know when it's in.
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BUT NOTHING'S NEAR ME! That's okay. You can still preorder from an indie bookstore and they'll ship it to you for a few bucks more; if you preorder from @booksaremagicbk in Brooklyn, I'll sign it for you at my launch party!
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You can also preorder a book directly from  http://Indiebound.org , and they'll split the profit between their member bookstores.
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BUT I REALLY JUST WANT TO USE AMZN...That's okay, too! Every single preorder matters and lets a publisher know there's early interest. I just wanted to share more info. Buying books is an amazing act, no matter where or how you do it! Thx, friends. 💕
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You can follow @andibartz.

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#KidsNeedMentors

10/11/2019

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Welcome letter from Jarrett Lerner
Have you heard about #KidsNeedMentors? It's a grassroots program started by a group of passionate people (teachers and a children's book author/illustrator) who want to move the needle on literacy through real connections between children's book creators and students.  

I'd heard about the inaugural program last year and was bummed that I missed the window to apply. However, this year I was Janie on the Spot with my app and in late August, I received my pairing!

Ms. Stewart and I began to correspond (excitedly! with lots of !!!) and are developing a plan for connecting using the underpinnings of her literacy goals for the year. 

We've started with a google sheet organized by month and our first interaction will be a video chat with her students to share Top 5's: 5 things about ourselves and 5 books we want to read this year. A little package is headed their way (shhhh!) and I'm looking forward to all the ways we connect about books, reading, writing, and exploring this big, wide world through literacy. 
Here are the organizers of #KidsNeedMentors with their Twitter handles. Feel free to follow them!
Jarrett Lerner, author-illustrator (@JarrettLerner)
Kristen Picone, 5th Grade Educator (@Kpteach5)
Kristen Crouch, 5th Grade Educator (@KCreadsALOT)

To learn more about the program, visit Jarrett Lerner's blog HERE and HERE. Follow #KidsNeedMentors on Twitter and Instagram to see all the ways that creators and students are connecting. It's truly inspiring. 
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Wondering how to combine ELA and STEM?

9/18/2019

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Author and empower-er Patricia Newman hosts a blog series called LitLinks for teachers and learners about how to connect English Language Arts (ELA) with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM). She's using children's books as the connector. I was thrilled to receive an invitation to contribute to the series and talk about how to use STRETCH TO THE SUN: FROM A TINY SPROUT TO THE TALLEST TREE ON EARTH in the classroom. Click HERE to view the post. I hope you can use some of the tools I shared with your young learners. Let me know below if something resonates with you.

I hope you'll follow Patricia's blog and find her on Twitter. She's working hard to support teachers and now we can support her!
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calling all librarians

9/9/2019

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I'm looking forward to speaking at this conference for librarians, the superheros of the book world! For more information and to register, click HERE. Will I see you there?
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How To Build a Better Story Without Writing It

7/9/2019

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Recently I had the opportunity to be a special guest as part of the Picture Books and All That Jazz Workshop (PB & J) at the Highlights Foundation Retreat Center. You can see I was jazzed about being part of this workshop. And a Highlights experience has been on my bucket list for years, so...CHECK!
Now, I've attended literally hundreds of workshops, webinars, seminars, sessions, intensives and breakouts over the years and frankly, I'm usually not surprised these days by "how to write a story" material. However, during the Highlights workshop, co-instructor, Darcy Pattison, offered an approach that I found both helpful and unique.  I'm going to give you the cliff notes version here. (If you want the longer, better version, you'll need to attend PB & J next year!) 

Darcy is the 
author of many award-winning fiction and nonfiction children's books and writing instruction books so she understands story making. She lead us through an exercise in which we we TALKED TO a partner about our work in progress picture book story. We took turns telling our story quickly, then in more depth, and finally in enough depth that we had to really think about details and layers. 

All of this happened without one letter of the story being written (or typed).  Because we weren't committed to something on paper or screen, we could morph it based on reactions from our partners and our own reaction when hearing it.

When it came time to write, we began with a story that had been tested and thought through. 

Guess what? The benefit of the oral storytelling approach surprised me! It shifted my view and my future approach to works-in-progress. Darcy mentioned she uses this exercise with students in workshops, too, and they also make great strides.

​Innovative first grade teacher, Mrs. Sarchet in BC, Canada, takes the idea one step further and provides 'loose parts' for her students to build their stories before "capturing" them on paper or screen. Check out her blogs for more info. 
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"Telling a story from summer memories" Mrs. Sarchet
I'm hoping Darcy will add this element to her next workshop! 
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So if you are looking for a way to build your next story, find a partner, or a pet or even a microphone, and tell it before you write it.

Tell me how it goes!
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Looking to Up Your Picture Book Game?

5/18/2019

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I'm pleased as punch to be a Special Guest for the fifth Picture Books and All That Jazz Workshop at Highlights. Every year, this Workshop receives high praise from attendees. The Workshop is run by award winning authors, Darcy Pattison and Leslie Helakoski (also an author/illustrator) who focus on helping writers bring their manuscripts to higher levels. Here is the webpage from Highlights with much more information. A quick video below will likely get you all JAZZED UP. There are a literally only a few open seats so if you are thinking about it, don't think anymore -- just click TO REGISTER. Hope to see you there!

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The Surprise, The Honor, and The Challenge

3/13/2019

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"Here lies one doubly blessed. She was happy and she knew it."
                                                                         -- ​Gwen Frostic's epitaph written by herself

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The Surprise
On March 9th, 2019, during the Michigan Reading Association's (MRA) annual literacy conference, I was honored with their 2019 Gwen Frostic Award.
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I hadn't a speck of an inkling this was in the works. So imagine my confusion when I was packing up my belongings after a presentation and was commanded to the late afternoon general assembly by a dear friend, author, and MRA board member, Deb Gonzalez. I think her exact text read, "Get here. Now." She immediately ushered me to a seat in the front row of a 1700-person packed room. Call me perplexed but I didn't have to wonder long because about a second later, the Award was described and I was announced as this year's recipient. 

The Honor
​From the MRA website: Gwen Frostic Award
"In 2006 the Michigan Reading Association established a Board Award that would honor a Michigan author and/or illustrator. The candidate must have strongly influenced literacy in Michigan in any dimension of literacy: which may include but is not limited to: children's fiction/nonfiction, young adult fiction/nonfiction, adult fiction/nonfiction, drama, song, poetry, newspaper, magazine or multimedia." 

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Sara Gwendolen Frostic was a beloved artist, author, and lecturer sharing "her observations of the universe." She was owner and president of Presscraft Papers, Gwen Frostic Prints, of Benzonia.  Gwen was awarded honorary degrees from many colleges and universities, was inducted into the Michigan's Women's Hall of Fame, and was even given her own day, May 23rd, known as Gwen Frostic Day in Michigan.

Her nature-inspired art themes resonate deeply with me as does her willingness to pursue her passion for creativity. Her art is breathtaking in its simplicity, the way it engages the eye, and in its respect for subject. Through Gwen's art, we learn about the subject in its environment and like her printmaking technique, that subject is indelibly imprinted in our hearts. 
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The official Gwen Frostic website is linked HERE. I hope you visit and learn more about her and her work. PLUS, we now have a picture book about Gwen! NATURE'S FRIEND: THE GWEN FROSTIC STORY, a Michigan Notable Book,  was written by author friend, Lindsey McDivitt, illustrated by Eileen Ryan Ewan and published by Sleeping Bear Press.  Feel free to add this book to your collection and share with young readers.

The Challenge
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The candidate must have strongly influenced literacy in Michigan in any dimension of literacy..." Although the Award language is past-tense, this moment has stoked my commitment to positively influence literacy in the days, weeks, and months ahead. I also challenge you -- writer, illustrator, storyteller, teacher, librarian, parent, and/or guardian of our most special people on Earth -- to positively influence literacy in any dimension that YOU can. 

Thank you to the Michigan Reading Association Board for this surprise, this honor, and this challenge.

To Gwen! To children! To books!
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Pish, Posh, Let's Get Cleaned Up

12/29/2018

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A quick look at the magazine rack at checkout counters reveals that January is the month to clean up and organize. I'm following suit inside my house but it dawned on me that I should peek into my digital home, too. ​
Good thing I did because my online profiles looked like this...messy, cluttered, and disorganized. 

Cases in point:
1. My Google Knowledge Panel shows a book with no cover image and my profile picture is outdated. I'm in the process of getting verified as a the owner of that Knowledge Panel so I can make changes to it. Wish me luck.
2. The SEO site description on my website was clunky and didn't reflect my current writing emphasis. 
​3. My Amazon Author profile was out of date even though I did revise it before the launch of STRETCH TO THE SUN in October.
4. My SCBWI profile was out of date. Gulp. 
5. My Facebook profile? Old and boring. Needed an overhaul. 
Thankfully, my Twitter profile was okay.
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How do you look to the online world? Need a dustin'? I'm right in there with you. 

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Agent Linda Epstein Dishes On Rejection

12/19/2018

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No nonsense literary agent Linda Epstein offers up some thoughts about rejection. The format you see below is created through an app called Thread Reader in which all the tweets in a thread are stitched together so you can read them more easily -- like a blog post. It's pretty cool stuff. 
Read Linda's thoughts and breathe them in. Remember that rejections are passes on work and represent opportunities. 
Cheers, my friends.
Thread by @LindaEpstein: "Let's talk about rejection, shall we? I'm used to doling out a LOT of rejections. I request about 1% of queries I receive. For all you non-m […]"
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What To Do While You Are Waiting. And Waiting. And Waiting...

11/8/2018

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Multi-published author, Lisa Amstutz, offers a helpful post for writers who are trying to traditionally publish their first book and experience long periods of time waiting for answers.

[Let me interject that published authors wait, too. In fact, I double dare you to find a published author that doesn't!]

Remember Newton's first law, "...a body in motion stays in motion?" It was meant to describe a physics concept but it also applies to writers -- pre-published and published. We must keep moving toward our goals. Lisa helps us realize there are many ways to augment the goal of debut and sharpen our skills and connections in the process. ​

What do you do while waiting that augments your career? 

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The ARC is here and there's no flood in sight!

7/20/2018

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The ARC, celebratory flowers from hubby, and a lovely note from the team at Charlesbridge.
Opening a package from your publishing company is a complete treat. Especially when you have an idea the package might contain the Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) from your latest book. It did and I am over the moon about this one.

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On the cover alone, I adore the detail on the tree bark and foliage, the sweetness of the bear cub's face, the rich sunny yellow behind the tree. And the font choices, oh the font choices! So many to consider and these are perfect. Artist Susan Swan and the design team at Charlesbridge have given readers a feeling of grandeur yet made the cover engaging and inviting. I CANNOT wait to hear childrens' reactions. 

There are a few more sneak peeks of interior spreads HERE and they are equally awesome. Stay tuned for the book trailer currently under production with PookyHonk Productions.

I'd love to hear your reactions!
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New Series for Agent Seekers              FAQ 1: "How Many Queries Can I Send?"

7/13/2018

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I've started a new FAQ series for people who are ready to start submitting to agents. If this is you, I hope the series is helpful! Click HERE and through the magic of my virtual gnome's hat portal, you'll be transported to the right place. See you there!

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Is Fear Getting in Your Way?

5/31/2018

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Recently, a client who is working through the stages of my Find Me an Agent Match, Please service shared that fear gets in her way of submitting. When we discussed it further, she and I were both surprised to learn she did not have a fear of failure; she had a fear of success. It took some time to peel back the layers of this fear but she was open to learning why she, a grammarian at heart, sent out query letters with glaring sentence construction mistakes and obvious typos. She had even made the unforgivable error of addressing a query to "Mr. X" when it was directed to "Ms.  X." 

Although her projects were ready for submission, she wasn't. 

When I asked her what success looked like to her, she described a fairly dramatic scenario where she'd be on the road most of the time promoting at book fairs and presenting at book signings and school visits. Although this was exciting, it was daunting because she is a single mom of two children and because public speaking gave her the heebie-jeebies. We discussed how this scenario might actually play out. She realized she could say yes to people who had offered to help. She could find a balance between home and book life. And, she could send out submissions that reflected her years of work, talent, and her promise as an author. 

Is fear of success -- or failure -- getting in your way? Take some reflection time and see if you can let it go. 
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Cover Reveal for STRETCH TO THE SUN: FROM A TINY SPROUT TO THE TALLEST TREE ON EARTH

4/27/2018

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Many thanks to my friend, Nancy Castaldo, for hosting the cover reveal of STRETCH TO THE SUN on her blog, Naturally Speaking. Nancy is a multi-award winning author of middle grade and early reader nonfiction and activity books. She's also an environmental educator, naturalist, and photographer. In fact, many of her photographs are used in her books. Here are some of her most recent titles: 
I appreciate Nancy's work and am honored to have her share our beautiful cover!

If you are newer to the world of making children's books, you might be asking, "What's all this ado about cover reveals? The book isn't even on shelves yet!" True, but a cover reveal helps you engage with people who might be interested in the book and prepares them for when it launches. It builds excitement and introduces you and your book to like-minded people who might also spread the word for you (such as other creators, teachers, librarians, book sellers, bloggers, and in my case, environmental activists/educators, naturalists, and tree huggers ;). 

Plus I'm just so darn happy with this book that I'm excited to share the cover! It's a looooong process from idea to book and this beautiful cover feels like a significant milestone to celebrate.

Check out Nancy's books and events. Her cover reveal for BACK FROM THE BRINK happened 4/24/18. So exciting! Your support of her would mean a lot to me. (That's how we do it in the world of children's books :) 
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Let's Go to the Fair! And by that I mean the Bologna Children's Book Fair. Part Duo.

4/21/2018

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Part one of this two-parter offered a small window into the Bologna Children's Book Fair 2018. Now I want to focus on what it means for an individual creator to attend an event like this.

I guess I can only say what it meant to me as a first-timer. Hopefully something will resonate with you!
Herewith are my takeaways:
  1. POV: our world is only as big as our experience. After eleven focused years in the children's book industry, I have a fairly decent feel for the US market. However, I learned at the Fair that many publishers outside of the US use very different illustration styles, make very unique books, and take what appear to be risks in illustration and content I never would have considered possible. Question: how can I/we push my work into fresh territories that I now see are possible? How can my work land on the front end of the curve?

  2. ​there are a. lot. of. books. being. published. I still can't fully assimilate the vast worldwide industry of children's book making and selling. This is exciting because it is a clear indication the market is robust. But it can also be paralyzing in that could there possibly be a story left untold? kind of way. Question: how can I/we create a story that is uniquely mine to tell? ​

  3. foreign rights are important to the longevity of a book. They aren't something to glaze over in your contract. (oops) I learned at the Fair that if the rights for your books aren't sold soon after it launches, there may be a market for them later. For example, multi-published author Miranda Paul shared that her book about siblings, Mia Moves Out, was of interest to a Chinese publisher because China is now experiencing more families with siblings. Interesting, right?

    The pub house may have new buyers or may have changed their interests in general. Question: how can you be your own foreign rights advocate? Miranda held a showcase for her books and had reached out to possible foreign rights people in advance of the Fair. She had discussions with them at the Fair and if they expressed interest in a title, she passed their contact information on to her agent and/or publishing team.  Other SCBWI people made these kind of connections at the Fair and goodness, it was exciting! 

  4. engaging with people at the Fair is important. We never know where our engagement might lead. One friend was invited to speak at an event because she met the organizer at the Fair. Another had "interesting discussions" with an agent. Question: in what ways can I reach out and offer something memorable for new contacts to take with them? Bring your engaging bookmarks, business cards, and/or other small and easy to pack trinkets displaying your contact information to share. 

  5. once again, SCBWI offers safe harbor in a windy sea.  The stand is ready for action the moment the Fair opens and is available until it closes.  It's a place to reconnect to old friends, make new ones, and at the end of the day, know that you are with your special people.  Question: how can I grow my circle of SCBWI friends and include these new people in my writing framework? SCBWI always makes a big world smaller and this is very apparent at the Fair. If you are putting off going because you won't know anyone there, start your day at Stand 26 B 76.

  6. diverse perspectives make things much more interesting! I spent time with people from Australia, France, Spain, Switzerland, Singapore, and Poland. We chatted about our unique challenges and opportunities. Each conversation opened my eyes just a bit wider to the world outside my own. Question: what can I learn from other perspectives that might inform my own work? 
​​There are so many ways in which this experience broadened my horizons. I hope you'll put the Bologna Children's Book Fair on your bucket list.

Ciao for now! 

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