M. Carroll

A guide to help you sell that book!A marketing plan is your blueprint for success. It will guide your book promotion activities. It is also required in order to gain acceptance by the big bookstores, and elevate your eBook.Big booksellers require authors they promote to have sales of 500 or more books, an established author platform, and a detailed marketing plan for consideration. This book aims to help you achieve this lofty goal by helping you:establish your author platformcreate a competitive marketing plan for your book and eBook promotionimplement your marketing plan to achieve sales and entry to a wider audience.To help you create effective actions and language for your book marketing plan this book includes: a 21 step marketing timeline, a marketing plan outline, a marketing plan sample narrative, and a marketing plan worksheet. There are detailed marketing strategies, and in the appendix a comprehensive list of resources including: bookstores, libraries, NPR stations, bloggers, reviewers, and more.You'll also find delicious recipes to share with your virtual or in-person marketing team.

21 Steps to Book Marketing Success!

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The Tree Who Walked Through Time - A Tree Identification Story is a children's picture book written by Maureen Carroll and lavishly illustrated by 18 artists who created realistic and fantastical replicas of trees. This book helps children identify different species of trees. This book is a flip book, a two-way tale, in that there are two books in one, with two front covers and no end. The Tree Who Walked Through Time is a story of an old Cottonwood tree who takes a stroll down memory lane, exploring the different trees that grow around him. The Cottonwood, named Prairie Prince, has a conversation with a boy who has fallen asleep under his branches. The other side of the book, The Boy Whose Branches Reached the Stars, is the story of a boy named Peter who is unhappy being short and longs to be tall like a tree. He goes on a stroll through the woods, exploring the different trees he might like to be, and eventually falls asleep underneath the old Cottonwood tree. Each artist contributed at least one tree to the book. As luck would have it, no two artists chose the same species! The artists' different styles and mediums highlight the unique qualities of each tree, helping the reader learn to distinguish the various species shown. Each contributing artist had a particular inspiration for selecting their tree. Along with their biographies you'll find in the book a brief description of why they chose the tree selected. Some of the contributing artists are well known, others yet to be discovered: Judy Graversen-Algaier Loretta Hendricks Backus Kris Barlow Shelley Barnhill Maureen Carroll Jack Cleveland Lisa Grossman Stan Herd Rachel Herring Paul Hotvedt Steve Howard Erok Johanssen Cathy Martin Samantha Nowak Bobbie Powell Ardys Ramberg Sara L. Taliaferro and Libby Tempero Author Maureen Carroll had never tried to herd cats before setting out to coordinate the work of seventeen other Kansas artists for The Tree Who Walked Through Time - A Tree Identification Story, but she has never known the meaning of the word "can't." A lover of rocks and trees since she was a little girl climbing in the Colorado Rockies, Maureen has worn many hats over the years, including linguist and cultural anthropologist, mom, public speaker, gluten-free cook, teacher, photographer, writer, graphic designer, and all-around Seeker of Truth. Maureen graduated from the University of Kansas and has taught classes throughout the United States and abroad. "I started by asking each artist to select a tree and to show something of what distinguishes that species of tree from others," Maureen explains. Serendipitously, no two artists chose the same tree. A few more were added along the way, including Jack Cleveland's fractal tree (which may grow wherever the human imagination wanders). "I wanted to introduce fine art to children, and to use that art to help them learn to identify different kinds of trees. Ultimately I wanted to serve the purpose of conservation by creating an emotional connection to the trees. My artists gave me more than I could have hoped for, which is wonderful because I wanted to help promote them, too." Motivation for this community effort to create a children's book was sparked by the recent cuts in funding to the arts and art education, particularly as it impacts children. "We were also motivated by our great love for trees and desire to aid tree conservation by increasing youths' understanding of trees." The author and artists are looking for book readers, tree lovers, and art supporters to aid in their cause of raising $25,000 for children's art education."

A Tree Identification Story

The Tree Who Walked Through Time

Your kids will love learning to dance with Spider. This fun, interactive book is loaded with exciting animal illustrations. In Spider's quest to learn to dance, he meets an elephant, a sloth, a giraffe, a monkey, a bluebird, a gorilla, a hawk, and a lion. An thrilling book to read to preschool age kids, Spiders Dance will get you wigglling your toes!Your kids will love learning to dance with Spider. This fun, interactive book is loaded with exciting animal illustrations. In Spider's quest to learn to dance, he meets an elephant, a sloth, a giraffe, a monkey, a bluebird, a gorilla, a hawk, and a lion. A thrilling book to read to preschool age kids, Spiders Dance will get you wiggling your toes!Spiders Dance was written by M Carroll, author of The Tree Who Walked Through Time A Tree Identification Story. M Carroll has written several books. You can find out more at anamcara-press.com. Spiders Dance was illustrated by Bobbie Powell, featured artist of other children's books including The Tree Who Walked Through Time A Tree Identification Story. M Carroll is a writer, photographer and graphic designer. The children's art book, The Tree Who Walked Through Time A Tree Identification Story was published in 2014 in collaboration with 17 local artists as a community project. Profits from this project benefit children's art education in Kansas.M Carroll published A Wyoming Cowboy in Hitler's Germany in 2016. The book focuses on history and original documents and photography from WWII, telling the story of H Carroll, a WWII reconnessance photographer, paratrooper, and POW.M Carroll published Spiders Dance in 2017 with artist Bobbie Powell for pre-school children, and disabled or challenged youth as a joyful, interactive book to explore possibilities. Carroll blogs about consciousness and community at maureencarroll.com. Follow her explorations on Facebook and Pinterest, or reach her through her publisher, Anamcara Press LLC.

Spiders Dance

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