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Tech Tools to Help Produce & Sell Children’s Books..

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Extract from an article by Carla King on Book Works Site:

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Lisa needed some help figuring out how to layout and distribute the children’s book she just finished.

She had already paid an illustrator and in our conversation revealed that the book was 42 pages long, the text was embedded in the Photoshop files, and images were square. Warning bells were already ringing in my head, so I asked her to send me the files. In review, I found the following issues to resolve.

Children’s books are standardized at 32 pages lo1ng with 24 pages of illustrations plus 6 end pages and front matter. Her book would be 48 pages with the additional front and back matter needed. She simply decided to create a non-standard book.

The illustrations were close to the edge of the printable area without any wiggle room for bleeds, so back to the illustrator it went!

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Viv Drewa is a Michigan native who has enjoyed reading and writing since 1963. Though she studied medicinal chemistry at the University of Michigan, her passion has always been writing. She had been awarded third place for her nonfiction short story about her grandfather's escape from Poland. Later, she rewrote this story and was published in the "Polish American Journal" as "From the Pages of Grandfather's Life" and has republished it on Amazon.com as a short story. Viv took creative and journalism courses to help in her transition to fulfill her dream of becoming a writer. She worked as an intern for Port Huron's 'The Times Herald", and also wrote, edited and did the layout or the Blue Water Multiple Sclerosis newsletter "Thumb Prints." She also has a business promoting authors. Owl and Pussycat Book Promotions. Viv, her husband Bob and their cat Princess, live in Port Huron, Michigan.

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