Hi! I am in the process of starting to do author visits at elementary schools. I will be asking the admin to send out a preorder form for my book. But I was wondering how do you transition into getting paid for author visits? I will be working on a quality and interactive presentation. My children's books are about emotional healing, emotional parenting and even the inner child so I have a lot I would like to talk about. I am also very open to speaking to both students and their parents. One school said they are interested in doing an assembly for parents and students right after school.

I have 3 children's books that I am done with on emotional wellness. Plus a book primarily for adult readers. I published the first one, a month ago. I have a decent amount of reviews through bookreverb and I also have book events at four different barnes and nobles coming up. Also, I am working with local schools on doing book events there. It's going well but it takes time to set things up. My question is how do I know when I should publish the next book? Because I was told it will hurt the algorithim if you publish the next book too early if your other book is not getting regular sales.

Hello! I decided to print through ingramsparks due to their higher quality. I write children's books illustrated by my son so detail and quality are important to me. Unfortunatley shipping time is 10-14 days long. Does anyone know how I can work around this? Do I bulk order and ship them myself or is there an other option? Or do I just sacrifice some quality of printing by printing through KDP? Thanks in advance!

The reason why I chose to do this for my children's book is because the quality was a lot better through ingramsparks. I write children's books and my six year old son illustrates my books so the detail and qulaity matters. Is there some kind of workaround I can do? Do I order in bulk and ship them out myself? (But I don't want to give out my home address or have to go to post office for each order) Do I just sacrifice quality when people order through Amazon? What are my best options? The long delivery time is hinding my launch. Thanks in advance!

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