Books are a wealth of information and creativity. People read books to gain knowledge, to pass time and of course, to spark a child's imagination. Children's books form a great niche in the book market today. Parents, grandparents, and teachers alike all look out for new children's books to keep their children interested in books. So why not provide them with specialized books, by creating your own personalized children's books.
Creating a children's book is not that difficult; in fact, it is possible to create a book with the child's name. Using the name, you could first create a beautiful and interesting poem with illustrations. Then using this poem as a base, you could lengthen the story by adding some history and information you may find about the name.
You can easily use different names to the stories, and using your imagination, conjunct an interesting story for the child. Similarly, you can also make many books using many names, and sell them. There is no point in charging too much for these storybooks, as parents are not that keen on spending too much on books for children. The asking price of $30 is a reasonable rate to charge for these personalized books.
Of course, you will have to get hold of a good publisher who will publish your books for you at reasonable rates. Not only that, the publisher should be one who is also reasonable on your payments, and who will make your payments on time. There are many publishers around for you to choose from. It is always better to approach the more popular and reputed publishers as you can be sure of receiving some payment from them. Once you have chosen a few publishers, you will have to approach them with your book.
Choose from children's book publishers, as they are more likely to accept your book for publication. You then have to send your manuscript to them. On receiving your manuscript, the publisher will need some time to go through it to see if it is worth publishing the book. Once the publisher goes through the manuscript and decides that it is worth publishing the book, they will contact and inform you.
You yourself can distribute the books by selling them individually, or you could approach distributors who have good links with bookshops for selling your books. If you sell the books on your own, you may not sell the book that fast, but you get your profits immediately. However, if you sell the book through a distributor, you will have to wait for some time to receive any money. Only after the bookshops sell all the books, and receive all their money, will you receive your money.
Once you manage to sell a few books, you will find that the publisher and parents alike will be waiting to receive more books from you. Therefore, if you have a creative imagination, and love children, you will not find it that difficult to create personalized children's books for children.
Resources:
http://www.howtobooks.co.uk/leisure/writing/childrens-story.asp
http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Children's-Story
http://childstoryhour.com/
http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/elements.html
April 2, 2009
