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 [...]

If you have decided to self-publish your first book, the first thing you will learn is that there are many things to learn! Every new thing you learn reveals another unknown. Sometimes it’s hard [...]

I don’t know how it started, but people think they need to buy barcodes for their books. Even some industry professionals. I’ve heard multiple times: “You must buy your barcodes from this [...]

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, [...]

“Standing out” on social media as an author seems a bit overrated to me. It’s a huge effort to be active out there: Have a Facebook account for your friends. Have a Facebook author/artist page [...]

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 [...]

Welcome to our blog, where we will be sharing about books and everything to do with creating and enjoying them. Always exciting! As this is our very first blog post, we’d like to tell you a [...]