I’m working on publishing a children’s picture book here (on inkshares) as well. It’s called Timmy Meets the Sock Monster. https://www.inkshares.com/books/timmy-meets-the-sock-monster 

I’m at the point where I’m ready to push the PreSale button! But I’m hesitant because I have a ton of questions.

 I don’t want to hijack your thread but I wanted to ask a few general question and hopefully get a response from the community at large and maybe start a discussion with the inkshares team. So here it goes.

A children’s picture book is different than a standard book in that it is very dependent on, well, pictures. The inkshares team has assured me that children’s books can do well here, and I do believe that to be the case. 

One of the most pressing questions I have is how do we submit the final artwork to inkshares so that it can be used in the publishing of the book?

The answer to this question will dictate how we format and even create our original artwork.

Another question is how much say do we, as the authors, have in the final format of the book? Can it be 8" X 8" square 9" X 9"? or is there an industry standard that we need to work within?

I’m sure there are a lot of other questions that concern only picture books, so I would love to get a general dialog going with the Inkshares team on the production aspects of children’s picture books. I’m sure children’s books can do well here.

-dale

 

The little brown snail

Had a little red pail,

And wherever he went

He would leave a wet trail.

Every day he would scale

Garden walls of Ms.Dale

With his little red pail

And would eat all the kale.

But the gale brought the hail,

So the little brown snail

Stuffed his cheeks full of kale

And hid under the pail.

And this is a true tale

Of a little brown snail

With his little red pail

Full of tasty green kale.