I’ve adapted several folktales which have done very well. They have been translated and recorded on two records, and every time I read it somewhere, a child has dramatized it with a drama class. Is there some way I can pursue it becoming a short film?

I’m turning in my first fiction work, a young adult coming of age book, featuring Latina protagonists in the world of magic. What should I be doing beyond what the publisher has planned?

Do you have any tips/ guidelines for Caribbean authors to access the millions of West Indian immigrants and their families now living in North America?

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What can I do to help market a children’s play that is based on one of my picture books?

I’m looking for someone who could represent my workshop programs to schools and libraries?

I have a middle-school novel being published and readers have commented that it would be good for a movie or after-school special. How would I go about pursuing that? Who would I approach? Also, my contract says I would only have partial rights for any movie rights, and that my publisher would share them, so do I need to wait for the publisher to be approached? Or can I take an active role?

I wish to market three chess books I’ve written as a set. Can you direct me to good lists of media and other specialty organizations in this area?

My book will be marketed exclusively to schools and libraries. Is there any point in doing book signings, since the public won’t be able to buy it?

I have a Native American recipe book from tribes in the USA. To market to foreign countries would the book have to be translated into foreign languages?

I would like to sell autographed copies of my books at a story hour I’m doing at a children’s hospital. What would be the “proper” way to handle this so as not to appear too “commercial”?

Can you provide information on the marketing and development of children’s coloring books?

How can I place excerpts of my books in magazines?

What can associations do to help promote children’s books?

How can I market a cartoon script or art to Disney, and others?

How can I promote a special program promoting my western-themed book to schools?

How can I market a book and audio tape package?

How can I market a book to the U.S. Government Printing Office?

How can I reach the homeschool market?

Is it appropriate to market and publicize my own work?

When do books benefit from niche marketing? How much time should be spent exploring this area?

How do books get submitted for awards?

Can you suggest niche markets for selling rhymed verse?

Where can I obtain U.S. school curricula for children, so I know what topics are being covered at certain age levels?