Writing Your First Book for Young Children: 5 Great Ways To Promote It

Amazon has sought to cut publishers out of the equation with Kindle Direct Publishing for several years now. The only people who matter are the author and the reader, they say. Children's books for very young children remain one genre that e-publishing will never completely topple. A kindle can never compete with the 'touch and feel' tactile aspect of popular books for young children. Most have thick, durable pages, materials in or on the pages, pop-out pictures and some are waterproof. These books are comparatively expensive to manufacture and the genre is highly competitive so if you are a first-time writer of books for very young children you will always have marketing at the forefront of your mind.

Use Tactile Brochures To Sell Your Books

The best advertisement for your book is a sample of your writing. You should be extremely creative when designing brochures containing a small part of your book for giving away to publishers and readers. If you network well, engaging brochures will help publicize your book. As you are selling to the parents of young children, your brochure should really have a wow-factor. Experiment with the shape of the brochure and ask a local or online printing shop whether they can include something striking to the page such as foil or a mirrored film. If you choose a writing sample that links in with this, children will adore the brochure when offered to them.

Stickers Are Always A Hit With Kids

While bookmarks with a sample of your writing would work well with a book for adults, you have to think a little more creatively when promoting a book for young children. A printing company may help you design bookmark with stickers on, or slips of stickers that can be slipped inside books or brochures easily. A really striking design with your book title and colorful illustrations will help your stickers to promote your books for you. Parents are more likely to favorably consider books that their children have shown an interest it.

Badges To Stand Out

Getting button badges printed out will really help your cause when visiting publishers or meeting parents at conventions or book fairs. Buttons with a character from your book will tempt people to investigate your brochure. There is a safety issue of offering buttons to young children, but most parents will let their children wear a badge under supervision. Having to take the button off at night before washing the clothes may remind parents of your brochure and if kids remember the button the next day, this increases your chances of making a sale. To reduce the cost you can buy blank buttons in bulk and then find a company that will just print you up sheets of stickers cheaply. You'll supply the elbow grease by using the stickers to create your own buttons.

Colorable Flyers

Most young children can't resist an opportunity to color so designing a flyer for your book with a colorable area is one of the best and cheapest ways of promoting your book. The trick is to get the boarders of the flyer extremely lively and snappy so the center just begs to be colored.  

Magnetize Publishers And Your Readers

This is the most expensive option but you'll be surprised how affordable it can be to get flat fridge-magnets made in bulk. They can be printed with a picture of a character from your first children's story. People are less inclined to discard a magnet and quite often they'll become a permanent fixture on someone's fridge and children's occasional play thing. Just as with the badge idea, blank fridge magnets can be bulk-bought for a fraction of the cost of professionally printed ones. You can create your own custom magnets by ordering sheets of stickers. These won't last as long, but they'll do for a promotion.

These are some tips that will surely help you promote your first children book. If you are looking out for personalised kids clothes on the internet, do visit this website.