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There is some very good information here! It sounds a lot like the record business with bands up to the late 80s where artists started to create their own studios and record companies to recoupe some of the royalties they were losing to the big recording companies. Sounds like the way to go would be to self-publish, sell merchandise, and get a good distributor.

I am curious how to work with a stuffed animal manufacturer to have the book and a stuffed animal to boost the book sales. If you have contacts and agencies that can represent a writer for the US and UK

Thank you, very helpful!

Thanks for those info🌸

Such a humble, grounded and respectful video. I can see how you've carved out a strong career. Thank you for the sage advice.

thanks this is very valuable information

Thankyou for your informative video. Is it a viable option to self publish a children’s storybook using photographs instead of illustrations?

Wonderful. Thank you for sharing

Thank you for this video.

Wonderful information, thank you :)

I LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUE WATCHING OTHER VIDEOS. FROM CARACAS.

Hi, I have 17 ready manuscripts. Should I submit them to the traditional publishers all 17 at once or should I submit one by one manuscript? Another question is should I send the manuscript to some publishers at once and wait for one of them to pick that or should I send the manuscript to just one publisher at a time and if they reject go to the next one? Sorry but last question: to wich level I should edit my manuscript for a traditional publisher as they might have their own editor? Thank you so much for replying. It helps me a lot.

Fabulous information❣️💯 Thank you for your time and energy🙏💛

I could live a $3000 a month us happily enough with my books in my peace and quiet. I’m on the autism spectrum and I don’t like the idea of a lifetime of going into the office. There are people there.

Christyan- is there a standard format for a picture book manuscript?

Hi. Great video, thankyou. What programs are you using for the illustrations and text at the moment please?

Which was your best selling book?

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Liked and subscribed. Since my toddler was born, my creativity outlets have dwindled. We read to him every night, and I love to draw. I am thinking about taking a stab at trying a story or two. If nothing else, I can read it to my two-year-old. Thanks for all of the advice.

Thank you so much! This was excellent. I so appreciate the time you spent to do it.

Thank you.

I just watched a couple of videos on your channel. Kudos on being so clear and direct. However, you make it all sound so easy and nice... I've heard stories about independent artists who get their ideas stolen by others with more experience and money to invest... I'm afraid of self-publishing, just to see someone copy my idea and put more money into it to sell it. How do you protect yourself from that?

Thank you so much for such informative and honest advice.

Thanks for sharing this valuable information. I'm a children's book illustrator from India and I've been working as freelance illustrator since one year now and absolutely loving what I do 🎉😄

Thank you for sharing.

Royalties are 5% of gross profit or 5% of gross sales revenue?

You're an underrated channel. Thanks for sharing valuable info!

Great video. I still have the Peter Rabbit book set I got as a child in the late 80s'.

Thank you! I’m 12 and I am wanting to be a children’s book writer, this helped me lots!

Hello Christyan, thank you very much for your relaxed and very helpful videos! May I ask: where can I find the other titles of your 30 essential children's books? I can only find one example of the classic period, one for the middle period and one for the contemporary market. Are they only included in the courses? Thanks again Francesco from Italy

Nice - love the Snowy in the background and that's a quality tee-shirt.

Could self-publishing and/or Amazon sales jeopardize a potential traditional publishing deal? I would imagine that a traditional publisher might look at Amazon sales as a subtraction from the total potential book sales.

Thank you for sharing your insight and experience; it is much appreciated!

Lovely vid! I work in kindergarten and have written several picture books for my kids (wrote it with a pen on stapled copy paper and did my own illustrations) just for fun. Never thought of publishing them cause they might not be that good. My first one was a story about a lonely, old shoe living in the attic who gets tired of this kind of lonely existence and decides one day to go on a journey to find his other half, his missing partner shoe...

I'm so frustrated that Barnes&Nobel and other stores won't let you physically put your book in their stores, even if you publish through them and Ingram Spark.

Very helpful thank you. The Amazon KDP route I gather is terrible so I’ll avoid it at all costs if I pursue this idea.

Excellent piece very helpful, thanks Christyan

You have inspired me to take up my keyboard which my family have been trying to do for a while now, please continue making positive videos to Instil ideas and raise confidence in your viewers oh, and thank you Pat Sharp.

Your video series are thoughtfully scripted, full of wonderful insights into the creative intentions of the authors/illustrators and beautifully presented. Thank you!

So interesting. Too bad there’s not more videos. Not that I like the style of this character design (I don’t like it at all!) but find very interesting to see the history behind the change of style.

great book ideas for kids

Very good information thank you

Lovely video!

Wonderful advice! Thank you!

Thanks I published my 1st book & now it’s the #1 new released on Amazon insane Lee Lee adventures “oh no”! Thanks for the info!

I find it odd to just produce 5 books in a year. Don't consider myself a writer yet but I have tons of ideas. I'ma graphic designer, illustrator and web developer. If this was my full time job I could put out a book every two weeks, make designs for appeal and sell it through my own website with print on demand. Unless the writing takes so long, i can illustrate a whole children's book in two weeks from manga, to comic book style to full colored picture books. I don't get how if you work 40 hrs a week it takes months to do one book. I can even do the whole layout in InDesign since I worked in press shops and know printing. I'm guessing that what takes long is the writing... What else could it be? Not the illustrating unless you are really slow or illustrating very stylistic realisti.

Christian thank you so much for such an insightful video. I’m thinking of changing my career and I have some ideas that I want to put to paper and you have inspired me to just start writing and see what happens!

So glad I've stumbled on your channel. I've been on a bit of search. Thank you for spending the time to empower.