Mine was done in the eleventh hour by my friend Armen Karl of Suite 4 social media. Creator videos can be completely compelling to people who want to be connected to the project.
You’ll have to include shipping costs and other ancillary costs in your funding goal. I picked ten of my favorites and interviewed the creators about their approaches. Study the successful and unsuccessful children’s book projects on Kickstarter.If you’re going to kickstart a kids’ book, here are a few first steps: Its community is a testing ground for new cultural ideas, its users consisting of uber-educated digital trendsetters who value supporting new products and new ideas, especially when they move the needles on cultural trends. Kickstarter is the perfect place for nerdy, awesome kids’ books. A few friends suggested that I was in a perfect position to try the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter.Īfter reading Jessica Abel’s excellent blog post One Goal to Rule Them All, I picked World Math Day as a launch date and prepared to send Tessa out into the world in early March. They wanted to have something I had made in their hands. No one wanted a digital edition of Tessalation! They were teachers.
Within a few minutes, friends were wondering where they could buy this book, and one friend, who runs a Waldorf-related books website, had offered to carry them in her store. Of course I posted one of them on Facebook. The illustrator I had found through, a young art student in Indonesia, began sending me her illustrations of my story within a few days-delicately rendered watercolor illustrations of narrative and patterned pages. Note from Jane: Today’s guest post is by children’s author Emily Grosvenor ( never planned to produce a print edition of my children’s picture book, Tessalation!I had the text for the book sitting in a drawer for about a year and a half and decided on a whim in November 2015 to just get the thing illustrated, get it up on Amazon’s Kindle platform, and move on with my life.īut the best ideas often move on their own.
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