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A practical guide to all aspects of children’s book marketing from bestselling children’s author Karen Inglis
Whether you’ve just published your first children’s book and aren’t sure where to start with marketing, or are struggling to increase sales of your existing titles, ‘How to Market a Children’s Book’ is here to help.
Packed full of practical guidance, and drawing on over 10 years’ experience of children’s book marketing by international bestselling children’s author Karen Inglis, it offers a trusted resource for you to return to again and again for support with both offline and online marketing and advertising strategies.
This book assumes you already fully understand the various self-publishing options and distribution processes for print, eBooks and audiobooks, or that you are a traditionally published children’s author looking for new ideas to help promote your book(s). If you also need guidance on the self-publishing process, look instead for Karen’s combined flagship publication How to Self-publish and Market a Children’s Book (Second Edition).
After reading ‘How to Market a Children’s Book’ you will understand:
How to establish your brand locally and why this is importantHow to get reviews both at and after your children’s book launchHow to set up successful school visits and other face-to-face eventsHow to plan and run virtual school visits or other online eventsBest practice and expectations for getting into bookshopsWhy and how eBooks should be part of your print book marketing strategyWhich tools and collaborative platforms can help your children’s book marketingHow to use email marketing, including staying within data protection rules for minorsKey strategies for Amazon advertising, and why this is the best place to startOther social media and advertising options, including Facebook, Instagram and PinterestAudiobook marketing – your key optionsTranslation and foreign rights as part of an advanced marketing strategy
Karen Inglis is a successful self-published author of picture books, illustrated chapter books and middle grade novels. Her time travel adventure The Secret Lake has sold over 500,000 English language print copies worldwide, over 30,000 paid eBook copies and over 15,000 audiobooks. She has also sold rights to 12 countries and overseen its translation into German, where ‘Der verborgene See’ has regularly been an Amazon.de bestseller in key categories.
‘Beyond the Secret Lake,’ Book 3 in The Secret Lake series, won the 2025 UK Selfies Award for best independently published Children’s Book and her picture book ‘The Christmas Tree Wish’ was shortlisted for the UK Selfies in 2020. Another popular picture book ‘The Tell-Me Tree’ regularly receives praise from parents and teachers, and is being used in UK classrooms to help children talk about feelings. Most of Karen’s picture books and chapter books have sold in their thousands through a combination of school visits, bookshop sales and online sales.
Karen has presented on children’s self-publishing in person and virtually at conferences in the UK and worldwide, and is Children’s Advisor at The Alliance of Independent Authors.
Publisher : Well Said Press
Publication date : May 23, 2021
Language : English
Print length : 274 pages
ISBN-10 : 1913846032
ISBN-13 : 978-1913846039
Item Weight : 9.5 ounces
Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.62 x 8.5 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #2,035,001 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #128 in Booksellers & Bookselling #1,930 in Advertising (Books) #1,944 in Authorship Reference
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