I was recently in an Apple store. The store beckoned me, not only with its huge Apple logo, but with the number of people, including children milling about the iPad display counter. It was hard to get near it. The children definitely outnumbered adults and it was fascinating to watch how they handled the device.
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Storybook time on Krysta’s Kingdom, an animated children’s series, produced by Electric Bear Studios, will feature the colourful children’s book, Little Blue Penguin on Episode 4, aired on KTV, October 10, 2009 at 7:30 am and 1:30 pm.
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The first annual Calgary Children’s Book Fair and Conference featuring local children’s authors and illustrators is set to take place Saturday, November 14, 2009. Promoter and children’s author, Simon Rose (The Doomsday Mask 2009), took the challenge of creating and administering this new book event.
When asked why he wanted to bring [...]
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Before setting off on a self publishing route, you have to determine what your goal of self publishing is. Self publishing - seeing the book from manuscript into a bound copy is the easy part, but the hard part of self publishing is the work that surrounds it, and the biggest of all [...]
Can a self published author charge for author visits? This is a question I have asked myself after several school and library readings, when I’ve taken up at least an hour or two of my time and haven’t sold a single book. When I first published Little Blue Penguin, my children’s book for ages 2 [...]
I learned a lesson the hard way last year when I neglected to contact a bookseller during spring break. The consignment manager was quite upset that I hadn’t capitalized on spring break week and done a couple of book signings. New to book promotion, I hadn’t even realized this was a great book marketing opportunity.
This [...]
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