Podcast – Your First 1000 Readers

How can you actually connect with your first 1000 readers? Get your books into more hands? It’s a challenge, especially when 3,500-odd books are published every day. In this episode, Katie Davis shares how she’s used her platform and marketing techniques to sell almost a million copies of her traditionally published books and launch two books at #1 on Amazon. She’ll reveal how you can follow the same steps and get your books in the hands of more readers!

Katie Davis is the author/illustrator of over a dozen traditionally published books for children (picture books, middle grade, and young adult novels). She edited and self-published How to Write a Children’s Book and How to Promote Your Children’s Book, both debuting  at #1 on Amazon.

Katie is a co-founder of Picture Book Summit and is the former director of the Institute of Children’s Literature and its sister school, the Institute for Writers, where, as of this writing, over 470,027 people have taken college-level writing courses and learned to write for both children and adults.

In this episode, Katie gives her insider tips for finding your first 1000 readers and keeping their attention.

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