@Christen McCreavy hi Christen! That’s amazing! Are you planning to purely illustrate or you’re writing as well? Both are completely different and viable options! In traditional publishing, the typical path is to find an agent first. You can do so by querying agents on query manager. You don’t pay anything, the publisher pays you and your agent takes a cut. The self publishing route takes more upfront investment, time, and marketing on your end. If you’re illustration-only, self pub tends to be more work for less pay with riskier clients, but there’s loads of jobs available. Definitely pros and cons to both. They’re very different paths!