Training #358 – Hot Seats

On this week's hot seats, we covered a lot of ground!

Specifically:

• John Palmer's hot seat for his middle grade children's adventure book with a focus on creating an appropriate cover and updating the interior layout of your book.
• Carol Slater's question about how to take a book listing down on Amazon.
• Donna Kim-Brand's question about needing a new ISBN for a new edition of a book.
• Steve Neseth's question about when it might make sense to change a pen name.
• Donna Schwontkowski's question about where to get ISBNs and if you can get free ones from Amazon.
• David R. Christensen's question about how to get illustrators on Fiverr for different types of jobs.
• Carol Slater's question about how to get reviews on a children's book when you don't have a lot of friends with young kids.
• Kevin Taylor's question about where to get stock photos for a picture book.
• Carol Slater's question about when it might make sense to contact Fiverr artists outside of Fiverr.
• Margi Evans hot seat for her book's subtitle.
• David Hoeferman's hot seat for cover ideas of his non-fiction book and how to look at comparable titles and covers.
• Wendy Watson's hot seat for her book description and how to specifically call out her ideal reader in what she presents to them.
• Adrian Hernandez's question about how to find good writers for children's books.
• Gretchen Eick's hot seat for her political fiction.
• Arenetia Burns's hot seat for her children's animal/geography book.
• Carrie Casey's question about why we need smaller file sizes for our ebooks.