Submiting your work

This doc does not tell much about publishing a printed picture book with a traditional publisher, but there will be good opportunities with the printed book market. They are using a digital marketing today.

Traditional printed books

• Print Ready
• Framed Original
• Style Originality

Digital

• Easy Alterations
• Speed
• Distributed easily in the world

App Stores

You build a picture book app for Apple store, Google Play and Amazon store, and then you can submit your app for their app stores on the Internet.

• Apple https://developer.apple.com/

• Google https://play.google.com/store

• Amazon https://developer.amazon.com/home.html

If you build apps for Mac or Windows, you can distribute apps without using their App store. For macOS, please refer Solar2D document and let an app notarized

• Creating macOS Desktop Apps
• Notarizing macOS Software Before Distribution
• Notarize any macOS application

promotion for your app

• Launch day throughout the following 2 weeks
• Week3 after the release
• Monitoring your performance

Traditional Publishers

• manuscript and sketches to be demonstrated to publishers

• book dummy - mock up

  • cover letter
  • typed manuscript
  • a booklet dummy
  • colored pages - one/two copies enough for a publisher to know your style

references

• Society of vizual storytelling - video library

  • https://courses.svslearn.com/
  • https://courses.svslearn.com/courses/illustrating-childrens-books-part1

• Will Terry – Is Now a Good Time to be an Artist?

  • http://picturebooking.com/012-will-terry-is-now-a-good-time-to-be-an-artist/