Skip to content
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Tumblr
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Writer & Illustrator Resources
    • General
    • Picture Book Support
    • MG / YA Support
    • KidLit Graphic Novel Resources
    • Querying & Submitting
    • Online Motivators & Critique Groups
    • More Helpful Blogs & Books

WRITERS' RUMPUS

Authors & Illustrators Wild About Kidlit!

  • Writing
    • Critiquing & Community
    • Picture Books
      • Picture Book Support
    • Middle Grade & Young Adult
      • MG / YA Support
    • Tools, Tips & Resources
    • Workshops, Events & Courses
  • Illustrating
  • Book Reviews
    • Picture Books
    • Middle Grade
    • Young Adult
  • Interviews
    • Agents, Editors & Publishers
    • Authors & Illustrators
  • Publishing
    • Querying & Submitting
    • Marketing & Publicity
    • Social Media & Websites
  • Inspiration

Tag: promotion

Technical pitfalls of self-publishing: what they don’t tell you.

August 7, 2020 Joyce Audy Zarins

Self-publishing through a platform that is set up to print and sell your children’s books online would be fabulous, if not for one huge drawback.

Continue reading

The Children’s Book Industry vs. the Pandemic

May 1, 2020 Joyce Audy Zarins

Publishers, agents, authors, and illustrators now heroically face an invisible foe. However, creative people have powerful solutions and wise workarounds to battle this hazard. The

Continue reading

Pitch Wars–Boost My Bio

August 27, 2019 Dana Nuenighoff

The summer is drawing to a close, beach days are limited, school buses are starting up, but with the start of fall comes the start

Continue reading

My library asks: Do You Know Who Deborah Sampson Was?

July 5, 2019 Joyce Audy Zarins

Last Saturday Deborah Sampson (aka Robert Shurtlieff) gave a stirring performance at my library. In reality, talented historical reenactor Judith Kalaora brought to life the

Continue reading

Create Your Author/ Artist Website!

December 7, 2018 Joyce Audy Zarins

As a professional, or someone starting in publishing, you need visibility. You could find a website designer, or you do your own. Don’t think you can? Think again.

Continue reading

Brilligs And Other Ways A Bookshop Sells Your Books

May 4, 2018 Joyce Audy Zarins

Once you have written or illustrated your heartfelt story, overcome the publishing gatekeeper hurdles, and your book has been birthed, here is another crucial step

Continue reading

The Launching of a Picture Book

December 12, 2017 Carol Gordon Ekster

On September 1st, 2017 my newest picture book, YOU KNOW WHAT? released with Clavis Books. This was an unusual launch for me in many ways.

Continue reading

Ideas for marketing your book – swag bags, mail outs, and first-class stamps!

November 25, 2016 Alumni & Guests

GUEST POST by Hazel Mitchell Your book is coming out, and it’s coming at you fast! It’s always the way, you think you’ve plenty of

Continue reading

Book People Bonding

November 4, 2016 Joyce Audy Zarins

This is a story about book people, a table, and some croc-a-mole. Once upon a time Ron McCutchan, then Art Director for Cricket Magazine, had

Continue reading

Rick Riordan: Demigod Saving the World

October 7, 2016 Joyce Audy Zarins

One child at a time, or sometimes en masse, Rick Riordan uses his superstar power to transform kids into readers. In a previous article titled

Continue reading

How to Market Pirates, Dinosaurs, & Dragons!

September 6, 2016 Alumni & Guests

Josh Funk had two picture book releases in the last 8 days (PIRASAURS! and DEAR DRAGON) – and today he shares how he’s gone about promoting them.

Continue reading

How to Buy a Picture Book (without Buying a Picture Book)

July 22, 2016 Alumni & Guests

Author Josh Funk shares ten ways to support picture book authors and illustrators …

Continue reading

Pinterest for authors and illustrators? You bet!

March 14, 2014 Carol Gordon Ekster

By Carol Ekster As authors, we want to spend much of our time writing. But writing work is no longer just creating clever plots and

Continue reading

Let the Marketing Begin

October 11, 2013 Carol Gordon Ekster

Oh, how children’s authors in critique groups pray to get published someday! It’s true, just ask them.  Hopefully, all of us can find the joy

Continue reading

Search

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Translate

Rumpus Writers

  • Alumni & Guests's avatar Alumni & Guests
    • WRITING CHAPTER BOOKS WITH HUMOR
  • Alison Potoma's avatar Alison Potoma
    • Celebrating Pride Month – Books for Kids
  • Amy Amberg's avatar Amy Amberg
    • The Secret Sauce to Successful Author Visits for Libraries
  • Carol Gordon Ekster's avatar Carol Gordon Ekster
    • Interview with author/illustrator, Joy Nelkin Wieder
  • Dana Nuenighoff's avatar Dana Nuenighoff
    • What My Past Manuscripts Have Taught Me
  • DrZatHome's avatar DrZatHome
    • INTERVIEW WITH #KIDLIT #PICTUREBOOK AUTHORS AND #AGENTS HUSBAND-AND-WIFE TEAM JAMES AND LUCY CATCHPOLE, PLUS A CRITIQUE/AMA GIVEAWAY
  • Hilary Elizabeth Margitich's avatar Hilary Elizabeth Margitich
    • Writing Across Genres & Empowering Indie Authors: Author-Publisher Donna L. Martin
  • Joyce Audy Zarins's avatar Joyce Audy Zarins
    • Challenging a Dystopian World: An Enlightening Interview with Gregory Maguire
  • Dianna Sanchez's avatar Dianna Sanchez
    • The Kitchen Pantry Scientist Math for Kids: An Interview with Rebecca Rapoport and Allanna Chung
  • Keri Demers's avatar Keri Demers
    • New in Picture Books: Hello, Tobi! by Andrea Cáceres
  • Kim Chaffee's avatar Kim Chaffee
    • Dedications: How Do You Decide?
  • Kirsti Call's avatar Kirsti Call
    • ANT ics with Picture Book Layers plus Smarty Ants GIVEAWAY
  • Laura Fineberg Cooper's avatar Laura Fineberg Cooper
    • Interview with Kimberly Tso, Debut Author of TIC-TAC-TOE CHICKEN…and a GIVEAWAY!
  • Lexi Donahue's avatar Lexi Donahue
    • Orion and the Dark by Emma Yarlett
  • Marcia Strykowski's avatar Marcia Strykowski
    • Recent Reads Roundup
  • Marti Johnson's avatar Marti Johnson
    • SUNRISE ON THE REAPING by Suzanne Collins
  • Monica Acker's avatar Monica Acker
    • Interview and Inspiration with Tenacious #Kidlit Author Pam Vaughan
  • Marianne Knowles's avatar Marianne Knowles
    • Picture Book Review: CASSINI’S MISSION by Katie Venit
  • Paul Czajak's avatar Paul Czajak
    • Kids, and the Daunting World of Writing
  • René Bartos's avatar René Bartos
    • Bringing Up a Writing Family: A Kidlit Journey with Award-Winning Author Jane Yolen
  • Rebecca Moody's avatar Rebecca Moody
    • A Simple Holiday Gift Guide for Writers 

REWRITING THE RULES

By Dr. Danna Zeiger, Ph.D., Illustrated by Josée BisaillonSeptember 9, 2025
New Picture book about scientist Dr. Kathleen Friel, who could--and DID--achieve what others said was impossible. Available today from Millbrook Press.

Victoria Dare and the Blood of Kings

By Josh RobertsMay 1, 2026
4 months to go.

The Puffin Who Whispered

By Marcia Strykowski, Illustrated by Roch HerckaJuly 28, 2026
7 months to go.
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Writer & Illustrator Resources
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • WRITERS' RUMPUS
    • Join 4,901 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • WRITERS' RUMPUS
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar