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Food for thought:
1. What if, as part of the marketing strategies to promote books, authors and illustrators went into a serious mode where we showed (or talked) the work behind the scenes? The time, the revisions, the meetings, the design process, the author-editor relationship.
1. What if, as part of the marketing strategies to promote books, authors and illustrators went into a serious mode where we showed (or talked) the work behind the scenes? The time, the revisions, the meetings, the design process, the author-editor relationship.
2. I’m thinking of small videos, panels, workshops. A peek behind the curtain. It would promote the books spoken of, create a sense of value for the professions, and start addressing what seems to be our common complain as an industry: that children’s publishing is undervalued.
3. Not to mention, we would be inspiring young creators. I was convinced I would be an artist after I saw the women at Disney’s paint and ink department in a behind the scenes of how animated films were made from THE FIFTIES. Seeing all those women painting made it feel doable.
4. Maybe it’s my inner Mexican going “let’s stop moaning and start gathering pebbles to throw instead”. But it is a problem we only complain with each other, that other countries don’t seem to have. Educating the public about what it took to make the book they hold seems logical.
(Extra tweet): COMPLAINT. GAAAH.
