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In picture books, words and pictures are equal partners. Even if your story is heart-warming, smart, and fun, if you don’t pair it with appealing visuals, readers won’t enjoy it. Normally, it’s [...]

Deciding to self-publish your book is not easy. Deciding who to work with is even harder. * The aim of this blog post is definitely not a Work with us, we are the best! kinda thing. We are not, [...]

Traditional publishers get thousands of manuscripts every year, and they publish let’s say 20 to 100 titles per year on average. So usually what you’ll get from a traditional publisher is a [...]

Editing is one of the essentials in the book-creating world. Each book has to be edited carefully by a professional  editor—not by the author themselves, nor by a friend who really likes reading. [...]

Remember the “there’s no spoon” scene in The Matrix? Yes, Print on Demand (POD) is somehow like that: “There’s no book.” Well, okay, there’s a book in the cloud. But it’s not printed yet. Wait a [...]

You have written your story. The manuscript is ready and you will self-publish it. Brilliant! Now it’s time to get it illustrated. Besides all the aesthetic-related brainstorms, as a human being [...]