Bonus Links, Downloads, and Process
This page houses all extra content from Might Could Make a Book. Read on to view digital files, see more process, download templates, and check out other bookmaking resources! I’ve listed the resources below according to the order they appear in MCMB.
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Book Making Process Video
Chapter 1: Intro to Picture Books
Here is a list of the books mentioned as examples in this chapter so you can read them and study them further:
- Board Book: Moo, Baa, La La La! by Sandra Boynton
- Concept Book: Quiet Loud by Leslie Patricelli
- Picture Book: Llama, Llama, Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney
- Non-Fiction Picture Book: The Big Book of Bugs by Yuval Zommer
- Wordless Picture Book: Journey by Aaron Becker
- Early Reader: Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
- Early Reader Graphic Novel: Narwhal Unicorn of the Sea! by Ben Clanton
- Chapter Book: Ivy + Bean, written by Annie Barrows and illustrated by Sophie Blackall
Chapter 4: Plot Structure
Here is a list of the books mentioned as examples in this chapter so you can read them and study their plot structures further:
- Classic: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
- Circular: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie written by Laura Numeroff and illustrated by Felicia Bond
- Concept: Shapes Trilogy (Triangle, Circle, and Square) written by Mac Barnett and illustrated by Jon Klassen
- Cumulative: The Napping House written by Audrey Wood and illustrated by Don Wood
- Mirror: A Sick Day for Amos McGee written by Philip C. Stead and illustrated by Erin E. Stead
- Parallel: Where’s Mommy? written by Beverly Donofrio and illustrated by Barbara McClintock
- Reversal: Children Make Terrible Pets by Peter Brown
Chapter 5: How to Storyboard Your Plot
Download the Writer’s Storyboard Template
Chapter 10: Making a Writer’s Dummy
Here are some photos of the process of making my writer’s dummy for my currently in-progress book, We Are Jellyfish.
Chapter 14: Character Design (Drawing)
Here are some extra character design sketches from We Are Fungi.
Chapter 15 + 16: Drawing and Refining Storyboards
Click the links to download and use my storyboard templates:
And here are my storyboards from We Are Fungi (click to open them at a larger size.)
Chapter 19: Submitting Your Book to Publishers
Download my We Are Fungi book dummy.
(P.S. This was made right before I got married and used my maiden name!)
Chapter 23: Marketing Your Book
Here are links to the examples mentioned in the book:
- My email list
- My website
- We Are Fungi sales page
- Activity guide
- Amazon sales page
- Amazon Author page
- GoodReads page
- Essay: On Quitting Social Media as an Artist
Book Trailer:
Chapter 24: Self-Publishing Options
Distributors mentioned in the book:
Chapter 25: Printing + Publishing Setup
- ISBN Provider: Bowker Publishing Services
- Amazon KDP Cover Calculator + Templates
- Amazon KDP Royalty Calculator
Further Reading:
Here is an abridged version of the Further Reading list from the back of Might Could Make a Book. Check out my Bookshop shelf for more art book recommendations!
- Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils and Rewards of Artmaking, David Bayles and Ted Orland
- Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert
- Steal Like An Artist, Austin Kleon
- What It Is, Lynda Barry
- The Artist’s Way, by Julia Cameron
- Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes: Volume 1: The Walt Stanchfield Lectures, by Walt Stanchfield
- On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, by Stephen King
- Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, by Anne Lamott
- Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You, by Ray Bradbury
- Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes: Volume 1: The Walt Stanchfield Lectures, by Walt Stanchfield
- Writing Picture Books, by Ann Whitford Paul
- Words and Pictures, by Quentin Blake
- Illustrating Children’s Books, by Martin Salisbury
- Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World, by Jane Hirshfield
- Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better, Pema Chödrön