Write a Best-Selling Children's Book in 14 Days

If you take a look around a library or a book store, one thing you'll notice is that there are a lot of children's books.

And that's because children are now reading more (which is probably thanks to J K Rowling) and so the demand for children's books is increasing.

Even the demand for young children's picture books is growing as more parents are becoming aware that a love for books at a young age is a great thing.

So there has never been a better, or easier, time to become a best-selling children's author, because the children's book market is really booming.

And the good news for you, as a writer, is that you can join this rapidly expanding market by writing a children's book in only 14 days.

How is this possible?

Children's books don't have to be huge. Most young kids don't want to sit down and read tens of thousands of words at a time. Nor do they want to struggle with really complicated words, plots and sub-plots.

That's what makes it so easy to write a children's book.

And as a children's author you'll find that there are also plenty of agents and publishers hungry for children's book manuscripts.

Once your book is published you can enjoy a steady stream of royalty payments every year.

And children's books are easy to market.

Library supply companies always like to purchase books in bulk because there are so many libraries needing new books. For instance, there are over 115,000 libraries across America and over 14,000 in Australia.

And children's books are the most borrowed books and therefore the most needed in the libraries.

If you're lucky enough to live in a country that pays PLR (Public Lending Rights) payments, you can also earn money every time your book is borrowed from a library.

Children's books can also be marketed and sold in book stores, schools, play groups, toy stores, book clubs, web sites, and many more places besides.

But first of all you need to write your first children's book.

To start with you need to know what age group your story is aimed at and then you have to make sure you write with their reading ability and interests in mind.

You also need an irresistible opening for your book and it needs to be character driven.

Take, for instance, the opening scene from J K Rowling's first children's novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. The book begins by talking about Harry's Aunt being nosy and always wanting to know what her neighbours are doing.

This takes the reader straight into a character flaw of one of the book's main characters.

Character personalities are always important in any children's book. Children are very curious about people and what they do. That's why, in children's stories, even inanimate objects have personalities, and these objects can even be the main character.

How popular would Thomas the Tank Engine have been without a personality?

Or what about the toys in the movie Toy Story? Even the Etcha-Sketch had a personality in that film.

In Alice in Wonderland the pack of cards were alive and Snow White's wicked step mother had a talking mirror.

Your book also needs a great ending that will amaze and please every child who reads it.

Gone are the days when "…and they all lived happily ever after" was a satisfying ending to a children's story.

Once you know how to write an irresistible opening, amazing ending, understand the age groups you're writing to, and the sequence of characters, storylines, and plots; you can write your own best-selling children's book in only 14 days – or less!

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If you're serious about becoming a children's author, and you want to do it in the shortest time possible, then you need to take a look at:

How to Write a Children's Book in 14 Days (…Or Less!)

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