Children's Pixie

$2,899.00

The Children’s Pixie is your perfect entry point to bring your children's book to life. Complete with professional formatting, distribution, and delightful illustrations, this package gives you everything you need to publish with ease. With added marketing tools like an author website, Children's Pixie helps your book find its place in the world while keeping the process simple and stress-free.

Here’s what you get with the Children’s Pixie publishing package:

Formatting

• Paperback Publishing: Your book will be available in the most popular format, made of quality, perfect binding, and acid-free library stock paper.
• Digital Formatting and Distribution: Your book is distributed online as an e-book and available through significant resellers like Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Production and Post Production Features

• Worldwide Online Distribution: Your book will be available for sale online through external retailers such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other resellers that may pick up your book from Ingram.
• Custom Cover Design: A cover designer is assigned to your manuscript and, with some consultation and direction, designs a few cover options based on your vision and lets you pick which one best fits your book.
• Custom Page Design: You will have a say in creating visually appealing page designs bringing your story to life, and building your book's layout that fits your needs.
• Electronic Galley: Known as the “galley proof,” this is a digital proof of your book’s cover and layout, emailed for your review and approval before publishing.
• 25 Image Insertions: You may provide imagery for your book’s interior pages, and these will be printed in full color.
• 25 Images for Enhancement: Basic custom edits to improve or transform images for your book, including retouching, repairs, effects, and adjustments.
• One round of Interior Revisions: You may want to make changes to your manuscript after proofreading your galley. Each block of revisions allows you to submit up to 50 corrections.
• One round of Cover Revisions: Do you have any tweaks you'd like to make to your cover? You have the option to make changes at no additional cost.
• Amazon "Look Inside", Google, and Barnes & Noble "Read Instantly" Previews: Allow readers to take a peek inside your book creating interest online before purchasing it. Preview available on Amazon, Google, Barnes & Noble, etc.
• 12 Personal Touch Color Illustrations*: Your story comes to life with 12 Personal Touch Color illustrations. At this level, illustrations are hand-drawn and colored digitally, creating clean lines and complementary tones—ideal for a simple, classic look for your book.

Registrations

• ISBN Assignment: A 13-digit identifier is unique to your book and an industry requirement for distribution and retail sales. It allows distributors, retailers, printers, and readers to find and order your book easily.
• Library of Congress Control Number: AuthorHouse will submit a copy of your book to the Library of Congress and arrange for a card catalog number to be assigned to your book.

Book Copies

• 100 Digital Bookstubs: As part of your marketing plan, offer promotional copies of your e-book using digital Bookstubs.
• 10 Softcover Copies - Receive twenty softcover copies of your book, included as part of your package. Perfect for sharing or showcasing your work.

Marketing Features

• Social Media Kit: In this kit, you'll have everything you need to grow your social media presence, including page creation, custom banners, etc. With the rise of content creation and brand deals, a social media kit can help promote your book and connect with the right readers.
• Author Website Setup (3 pages): Receive a professional author website that fits your style and is where readers can go to discover your book and learn about you as an author.
• Book Sales Savvy Guide: With helpful exercises and practices, this marketing guide can give you the confidence and skills you need to draw bookstores to sell your book.
• New Releases Section on the AuthorHouse Bookstore: Have your book featured on our online bookstore’s ‘New Releases’ section spotlighting it for a limited time upon its publication date.
• Print-Ready Bookmarks Design File: These are the PDF files of bookmark design so you can print bookmarks at home or through a local printer to be used for promotional events.
• New Releases Listing on BookMad: Enjoy the limelight from your author spotlight feature in BookMad, a digital magazine dedicated to publishing trends, highlighting new authors, and book releases.
• Booksellers Return Program - 12 months: A typical program in the self-publishing industry in which author books will be marked “Returnable” in the wholesaler/distributor ordering system. This is valuable to booksellers by assuring them credit for unsold bookstore copies. Ideal for authors if their books are primarily sold in bookstores, securing them more shelf space and in-store book signings.

*Does your book need illustrations that are more detailed or intricate? You may exchange your 12 Personal Touch illustrations for either 8 Fine Detail OR 5 Intricate Design illustrations.