INDIE PUBLISHING A CHILDREN'S BOOK: STEP BY STEP #1

IDEA, RESEARCH & WRITE

I’m starting today a real-time step-by-step look at publishing a book. It will be a series of perhaps ten posts detailing milestones in working on a new book. Available only to paid subscribers, this will give you details of my working style and what I’m thinking at each stage of the process. It will likely cover a year or so of work, so the posts will come at irregular intervals.

The topic? The Przewalski’s (p-zhe-vol-ski) horses were declared Extinct in the Wild in 1969. Gone. Another species lost. But…

…there were 11 Przewalski’s horses in zoos. Would it be enough to save a species? The story is an exciting, vast, international story with numerous individuals playing key roles. It could easily be a fascinating, sprawling adult nonfiction story. Or a YA or middle grade nonfiction. But I don’t know how to sell those. I only know how to write and sell elementary level nonfiction.

Could I write an elementary nonfiction book about the horses? Could I sell it?

Come along for the year-long journey as I step-by-step write and publish this story, tentatively titled, NOT EXTINCT: The Journey of the Przewalski’s Horse from Extinct in the Wild to Endangered.