Getting Your Picture Book to the Right Re-Seller

Okay, I've ceased feeling guilty for the infrequent posts here (day job is crazy busy) since the alternative is to delete and focus on my non-fiction science blog. But's what's the fun in that?

Anyway, I recently got to see how knowing your audience (and in this case, your re-seller) really makes a difference between a ho-hum response to a book and over-the-top excitement (at least by the sales staff).

Last Friday while in Houston, TX. visiting family, I stopped by the Museum of Health and Medical Sciences gift shop. I thought a personal visit would allow me to provide background on why I wrote Alphabet Puke: Monsters' Medicine A-Z (take the scary out of sickness and health stuff) and rave about the great illustrations by Charles Eubanks. I'm much more animated in person than in correspondence. I was even able to mention the YouTube AP  book trailer.

The response was fantastic! A museum gift shop PLUS a children's picture book on medical terms and health. Who knew?! Anyway, the person who actually orders was out, but based on the initial response, I'm optimistic.

Fingers crossed! And let me know how your targeted conversations go with potential resellers. -Q

Happy National Tooth Fairy Day!

As children's writers, this may be the closest we get to having a day dedicated to us. Or childhood. Or imagination. 

Just reading the post title makes me smile and realize that no matter how many times a topic has been covered, it can be imagined in a new way. 

How have you pictured the tooth fairy in your imagination? Here are just a few books on the subject. All wonderful in different ways.

• The Night before the Tooth Fairy by Natasha Wing
• Silverlicious by Victoria Kann
• The Tooth Fairy Trap by Rachelle Burk
• Caraboose, The Tooth Fairy Moose by Janelle Cox
• Junie B. - Toothless Wonder by Barbara Parks
• Bear's Loose Tooth by Karma Wilson
• The Tooth Fairy by Peter Collington
• Mary the Tooth Fairy by Nick Bell
• Tooth Fairy's First Night by Anne Bowen
• April Underhill, Tooth Fairy by Bob Graham 
• The Tooth Book by Theo LeSieg
• You Think It's Easy Being the Tooth Fairy? by Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt
• Emma and the Tooth Fairy by Alexander Zavlavsky
• Dear Tooth Fairy by Alan Durant
• Throw Your Tooth on the Roof: Tooth Traditions from Around the World by Selby Beeler

Power up your imagination. Today is your day too. Happy Children's Authors Day! Happy National Tooth Fairy Day!  -Q

  

 

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100 Picture Books

The New York Public Library has put together a list of 100 great picture books. Check it out at
http://kids.nypl.org/reading/recommended2.cfm?ListID=61
You can find some of my favorite picture books at the books page of my website, www.quinncole.com. Since I grew up on a farm, I especially laugh at Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type.
-Q