logo for best-childrens-books.com
Home
books from $1.95... _store
  authors... Ready To Publish?
The SelfPub Section
Write A Book Now
Forum
Browse Illustrators
Writing Online
BCB Author Services
  parents, teachers... Stories That Teach
Discounted
Special 4U, Mom!
Reviews
Magazines
Books and Behavior
Reading Toolbox
SMART coloring
Books By Category
The Classics
Personalized Books
free online reading... Fables! Morals!
Fairy Tales
Nursery Rhymes
More Free
  site... Reading Newsletter
What's New
About Me & Contact
How Site Makes $
Advertisers
Site Map

[?] Subscribe To This Site

XML RSS
Add to Google
Add to My Yahoo!
Add to My MSN
Subscribe with Bloglines

 

Dinosaur Adventure Book

by John Dolbey
(Cincinnati, Ohio)

Sunrise Over Fire Rock Field

Sunrise Over Fire Rock Field

Print on Demand by CreateSpace - an Amazon subsidiary

Dino-mite Children's Chapter Book, Dinosaur Adventure

My wife and I adopted an 11 mo. girl from China back in 2001, and she has turned into a voracious reader and dinosaur fanatic. We developed some wonderful dinosaur characters through years of storytelling and character building.


I would tell my daughter a new dino-story about these characters every day on the way to school, then more at night, for 2+ years.

The characters and storyline -- Iggy, Guana, and Dawn are three iguanodon siblings working hard to solve problems and to provide a better life for all plant eaters.

Through adventure and difficult experiences, they seek to convince the herd elders of their new plans. Only through determination, problem solving, and conflict management might they succedd. They join with three other young dinosaurs, Mox and Jax (triceratops) and Tail Whip (another iguanodon witn an unusually longer tail).

I did find a literary agent interested in the material but nothing had happened in a while (but I am still in contact with them), so I researched different self-publishing houses and went with CreateSpace, an Amazon subsidiary. I utilized several processional services from their design and publishing teams, and will also be sending a press release out soon.

I created a website for the book and have worked hard to get the word out. I am hopeful you can assist in the effort too! Visit Iggy Adventures.

Thank you!

John Dolbey

Comments for
Dinosaur Adventure Book

Average Rating starstarstarstar

Click here to add your own comments

Apr 26, 2010
Rating
starstarstarstar
Dinosaur book...or books!
by: Steve B. (webmaster)

John, thanks for posting.

(Readers, John and I met on Best Children's Book's Facebook page. He was seeking to publicize his book. I suggested he post here.)

Publicizing your book is hard! I hear from a lot of self published authors, and I see how frustrated they get.

In particular, I hear about their frustration with their websites. So many of us think that a website gets traffic simply by virtue of being made available on the web. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The search engines try their best to make a meritocracy of the web. A website gets search engine traffic in proportion to how often it offers the best "answer" to a particular search engine query.

And John, your site seems to me to only best answer the query, "Where can I find the Iggy the Iguanodon chapter book?"

Which means pretty much that people have to know about your book in order to find your site.

Wouldn't you rather have people who DON'T know about your book find your site?

That's the approach I take when I build a site. If I wanted to promote your book, I would build a site about dinosaur books. I would aim to answer the query, "Where can I find out about dinosaur books?"

More than 27,000 people globally Google dinosaur books per month. Those are the people you want to reach, right?

If what I'm saying makes sense, this will too.

This approach I'm describing has a magical side effect: you discover over ways to make money on top of selling your books. You sell advertising. You sell other people's books. Because you've become the "go to" guy on dinosaur books! You've got a significant portion of those 27,000 people a month visiting your site.

(Over 44,000 visited this one in the last month.)

And all that dinosaur knowledge you've accumulated that doesn't go into your books no longer goes to waste.

Just a thought!

Click here to add your own comments

Join in and write your own page! It's easy to do. How?
Simply click here to return to Share a Self-Publishing Experience


SEARCH THE SITE!


SHARE!


When U

our

U support working

and they


We've become a publisher.

Do you have a manuscript for us?


Lists and Reviews!