Children Book

Most authors write to me too early. Not too early in their writing, but too early in their thinking. The manuscript is finished, the excitement is real, and the email says something like “I have written a children’s book and I would love to work with you, how do we start?” I always write back.

Almost every author who writes to me asks this question, usually somewhere in the third or fourth sentence. It makes sense. You have finished a manuscript, you are excited about it, and now you need to know whether the next step costs eight hundred dollars or eight thousand. The honest answer is that it depends,