Illustrations and book production for first time authors

Are you a first time children book author? Have written a story/poem, but do not know where to start? Well, some of the important steps that you must do are – Getting yourself a good editor and getting the right illustrator for your book, who can also guide you with the attractive book layout so that the illustrations and text can be presented correctly.

Illustrations and colorful presentation are very important elements of children books. If you have your own set of people where you are looking to distribute your book, self publishing is a very good option. After production of your book, the next stage is the marketing of your book and this one is equally important. We shall cover that in our next article.You need to get your book illustrated, produced with a fine layout and attractive print ready cover and you are ready to self publish your book. Getting an e-book version of your book is also getting very popular as it is much cheaper than the printed book.

If you have written your story for smaller children and it has a little text, you can get the text decorated with cute impressive fonts and lovely colorful illustrations. The professional illustrators can do this job very efficiently.

There are many advantages in using the professional illustrators and initially if you feel it a bit expensive, it turns out to be very cost effective if you look at the entire package of book production. Professional illustrators can get your production process very simple and smooth as they know the industry requirements. I have seen many cases when author choose to work with illustrators to save on the initial lower cost, but when they finally submit these book illustrationsto publishers, they often find the basic requirements for a printed product is not satisfied and you end up paying more in getting these illustrations corrected to the requirement or you end up with totally unexpected result with your book.

After production of your book, the next stage is the marketing of your book and this one is equally important. We shall cover that in our next article.

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