@Franicia commented on @Franicia’s file : @Tim Should I wait for you to see it or just approve it?

@Tim commented on @Franicia’s file : @Franicia You should approve it.

@Franicia commented on @Franicia’s file : @Tim That sounds good.

@Tim Yay! Count Them with Me is showing up as available for purchase on Amazon today. Great job, Sweetheart! ❤️

@Tim Can I give away some Count Them with Me books or should we wait?

@Tim I made a book giveaway for Count Them With Me and just launched it. 😊

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@Franicia commented on email’s file https://whitefamily.slack.com/files/USLACKBOT/FA1R83XRA/re__form_submission_-_about_contact_form_-_looking_for_a_publisher: @Tim I was just thinking yesterday that I think I’d like to write a how-to book on writing, illustrating, and self-publishing children’s books. I also thought that we could offer a course and/or coaching. Offering a course alone could be expensive as it involves hosting information depending on the format we choose.

@Tim commented on email’s file https://whitefamily.slack.com/files/USLACKBOT/FA1R83XRA/re__form_submission_-_about_contact_form_-_looking_for_a_publisher: @Franicia That'd be a great idea! Coaching could be a great money-maker. 😃

@Franicia commented on email’s file https://whitefamily.slack.com/files/USLACKBOT/FA1R83XRA/re__form_submission_-_about_contact_form_-_looking_for_a_publisher: @Tim Yeah! A lot of people dream of writing and publishing their own children’s books. 😊 To some people, it could help them financially. For others, it could be spreading an important message. 😊

@Franicia commented on email’s file https://whitefamily.slack.com/files/USLACKBOT/FA1R83XRA/re__form_submission_-_about_contact_form_-_looking_for_a_publisher: @Tim Do you think we should do an inexpensive method like the PAC where they have videos and links in one page? I don’t know what they use so people can create accounts and login.

@Tim commented on email’s file https://whitefamily.slack.com/files/USLACKBOT/FA1R83XRA/re__form_submission_-_about_contact_form_-_looking_for_a_publisher: @Franicia Do you think that they use WP? That's what most people use.

@Franicia commented on email’s file https://whitefamily.slack.com/files/USLACKBOT/FA1R83XRA/re__form_submission_-_about_contact_form_-_looking_for_a_publisher: @Tim I’m not sure. You would know better than me as you can look up the source code or whatever it’s called. I’m not familiar with making websites that have memberships.

@Franicia commented on email’s file https://whitefamily.slack.com/files/USLACKBOT/FA1R83XRA/re__form_submission_-_about_contact_form_-_looking_for_a_publisher: @Tim Do you think we should partner up with Jim Cockrum to offer this course?

@Tim commented on email’s file https://whitefamily.slack.com/files/USLACKBOT/FA1R83XRA/re__form_submission_-_about_contact_form_-_looking_for_a_publisher: @Franicia If they'd like to. I can't see how that'd be a bad deal for us.

@Franicia commented on email’s file https://whitefamily.slack.com/files/USLACKBOT/FA1R83XRA/re__form_submission_-_about_contact_form_-_looking_for_a_publisher: @Tim I thought we could get more traffic and sales through them and it would be a win-win situation for us both. Also we could offer coaching on the side and even more specialized books and/or courses over time to be more specific and give more tips either in that course or on our website.

@Tim I just sent Jim Cockrum this children’s book course proposal: Jim, My husband Tim and I have been long-time students of yours since ebay days and first and second editions of Silent Sales Machine were introduced. We can’t count how many times we’ve referred people to your book since then especially recently when we share high ebay sales. We bought the PAC a while back and many other courses like Private Label, Merch, the PL database, PPI?, and probably more. My question is, would you be interested in us teaming up with you to offer a new course? I was thinking it would be called something like “Proven Childrens Books.” *We’re lovers and believers of Jesus. *We both attended an institution of integrity (U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis where my husband is a grad). *We have published 7 children’s books, 1 adult coloring book, and 2 “secret brand project” children’s coloring books that I’ve created. *I’ve authored and illustrated all except our first hardcover book which we hired a Christian water color artist to illustrate. (I’ve edited the photographs and we are releasing a new title and book within the next few months). See I Know You Love Me, Mommy and Daddy which we ran a successful Kickstarter for *I made the graphics of two of my children’s books using my iphone. See There Was an Egg and There Was a Bird. *I hand drew and then digitally colored the drawings of one of my books with my ipad/iphone. See Count Them With Me. *As a bonus, I made the graphics for my adult coloring book using an app on my phone and then transferred it to my laptop. See Clusters and Medallions *We have experience self-publishing hardcover and softcover books through Ingram Spark. We started transferring our softcover books to Createspace to be more competitive price-wise. *We also have experience converting our children’s books and uploading them to Kindle books. *Hiring a water color artist for one of our books cost us thousands of dollars. By doing a lot of the work myself for our other books, I saved us at least $24,000-60,000 alone on illustrations unless someone uses Fiverr which we haven’t. The book layout alone is worth another $1,000-3,000 at least and not counting converting to Kindle and more. I wanted to keep this short, but also detailed enough to answer any questions. Feel free to write to us here or send us an email for more info at: franicia at whitefamily.us tim at whitefamily.us Or you could call us

@Tim What do you think? 😊🎉

@Franicia commented on @Franicia’s file : @Tim I did it. I figured out all our book sales except for Kindle books. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hlcMerFXS_jRjKw2CiHQVxsCg6yQkQ0a9x2WrVo_DfQ/edit?usp=sharing

@Tim I was going to see if I was able to run ads for at least Count Them With Me as a Kindle book, but saw that we only have that privilege for I’m Up, Up, Up. I think that means we have to enroll all the other Kindle books under the KDP Select program. That also means we can’t offer the pdf copies for sale on Wholesome Press.

@Tim We can replace to the interior of Count Them With Me (2nd edition). We’ll just be going through the whole review process again.

@Franicia Will you be replying to the Jim Cockrum team today about the course?

@Tim I just enrolled the Count Them With Me (Kindle book) for KDP Select.

@Franicia commented on @Franicia’s file : @Tim How can we find out how much Lisa Leaman’s church paid us for the 120 books they bought? Our profit doesn’t show in this order. | Nevermind, I think I’m seeing $300 via text.

@Tim Our Count Them With Me book giveaway hosted on our timandfranicia account ended last night. Shiloh chose our winner at random. It is mindy.cba. I notified her and thanked our other entries.

@Tim We sold an adult coloring book.

@Franicia I started a folder in Team Drives for our Extraordinary Children book: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LBHjvV8iGBXpH-_tRJHJxpX0XEtPkAum

@Franicia I’m wondering if it might be better to use Word to write the Extraordinary Children book. I read at the following link that Google Docs can get corrupted when they get long: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/docs/8ASXs4kVUbc

@Tim I’m on a KDP University webinar. It is “Paperback Formatting Essentials.” Do you have any questions you want me to ask?