The Marketing Begins

I guess it’s time to write about work again. I’m in the lull between finalizing text and images for my newest book, Mysterious Patterns: Fractals in Nature, and seeing a layout. Today, I got an email from Boyds Mills Press that officially jumpstarts the marketing process: the author/illustrator questionnaire for books on the 2014 Spring List.

I’ve already been marketing for Mysterious Patterns in several ways:

• I have submitted proposals to make presentations at two national conferences: National Science Teachers Association (in Boston, April 2014) and International Reading Association (in New Orleans, May 2104).
• I’ve been writing about the book-in-process here on the blog and on Facebook and Twitter.
• All my Spring school visits included a preview of the new book.
• Richard and I donated the image below to an art auction to benefit The Metro Jackson YMCA.

Someone who knows more about children’s publishing than I do said the best marketing for already published titles is to get a new book out, so I’ve spent a good lot of time this year gearing up for a marketing campaign for Growing Patterns: Fibonacci Numbers in Nature and Wolfsnail: A Backyard Predator.