Now in its tenth edition, An Author’s Guide to Children’s Book Promotion has been the leading source of information on children’s book marketing and promotion for authors, illustrators and publishers for more than fifteen years.

This easy-to-use handbook provides an inside look at this complex market plus advice and guidance on getting children’s books into the hands of key decision-makers and buyers in the media, at schools, libraries, review journals, wholesalers, and bookstores…and ultimately into the hands of parents and children.

Here’s what the experts have said:

“Susan Raab’s An Author’s Guide to Children’s Book Promotion is a short but packed collection of tips and ideas for authors who want to take a more active role in marketing their own books, especially children’s books…Raab’s Guide is a handy and accessible reference full of useful pointers.”

–Small Press Magazine

“Raab’s sparse, no nonsense approach reminds me of another guidebook, Strunk and White’s Elements of Style. The lean to-the-point style makes this guide a quick reference source a writer turns to with each book published.”

–Chicago Children’s Reading Roundtable Bulletin

Topics include:

• How to self promote without driving a publisher crazy
• Why it can make sense to set up as a distributor
• How to build traffic at bookstore events
• What’s the honorarium range for new authors
• New information on blogs and websites
  

Plus a Source Directory of specialized contacts:

Associations and organizations; Information sources; Trade and educational publications; Children’s book clubs wholesalers and book chains