My brand new podcast, Children’s Book Marketing Made Easy, is officially live! When I first shared that I was thinking about launching a podcast, I got such an overwhelmingly positive response from you. It honestly made me even more excited to bring this to life! Believe me, I know how busy you are. After a long day, the last thing you want to do is sit down and watch a full YouTube video. That’s exactly why I created this podcast, so you can still learn and grow your children’s book business in a way that fits into your daily life. You can listen while you’re driving, cleaning, walking… wherever. Each episode is designed to help you start your week with clarity and momentum, with simple, practical strategies you can actually use to grow your audience and sell more books. New episodes will be released every Monday! 🎧 You can listen to the first three episodes here:​​ https://authorharleighrose.com/ If you enjoy it, it would mean so much to me if you followed the podcast on your favorite app and left a review. That’s what helps more children’s book authors find it. I’m really proud of this, and I can’t wait for you to listen!

I’ve been working on something behind the scenes for a little bit now, and I’m honestly so excited to finally share it with you… This Monday, I’m launching my brand new podcast!!! It’s called Children’s Book Marketing Made Easy, and you’ll be able to listen to it on the go wherever you normally listen to your podcasts. The link to the first 3 episodes will be posted here on Monday! ​ I seriously can't wait to share this with you.

Has anyone here heard of Kravitz and Sons? I just received a phone call from them. They want to list 'Where Can We Have The Party?' on their website. I looked them up and they do have a website, but anyone can build a website before cold-calling people. I've gotten lots of spam before, but never a phone call! Has anyone ever heard of this place?

@Harleigh Manske I'm toward the end of the "Optimize and Launch on KDP" course and have a question. Instead of using Google Docs when planning our launch, can we use the Excel program that's built into the computer? I ask because I was wondering if there's a benefit to using docs instead of excel. I hope you understand this.

I have placed my first series of books on Amazon KDP. I am looking at using IngramSpark for my next book. My understanding is book stores want a 40-50% discount and free returns. I like the idea of my local book store being able to sell my book. I am also fine with the discount and making less of a royalty. But how do you plan for book returns? Has anyone had experiences with book returns by book stores?