From Manuscript to Marketplace: A Step-by-Step Self-Publishing Workbook! ON SALE NOW!

From Manuscript to Marketplace is the step-by-step workbook I wish someone had handed me before I published my first children's book. After selling more than 200,000 books through Con Todo Press, I wrote down every single step, in order, with the real costs and a realistic timeline, so you don't get tripped up by the things nobody warns you about: ISBNs, copyright, barcodes, Library of Congress numbers, formatting to printer specs.

Inside you'll find:

• All seven phases, from planning your book to selling it: Plan, Write & Polish, Illustrate, Make It Official, Format & Design, Publish & Print, Market & Sell
• What it really costs — every line item, from a $29.50 ISBN to a $10,000 offset print run, so there are no surprises
• Print-on-demand vs. offset printing, side by side, with the actual per-book math and the printers I use
• A copyright page template, front and back matter checklists, and the exact "ingredients" to hand your book formatter
• How to find and contract an illustrator (and why I'll never let you use AI for this)
• A bilingual publishing guide — because Spanish runs 15–30% longer and machine translation will undercut your whole book
• Bonus: crowdfunding your book, a budget planner, a timeline planner, and a resource directory with every link I personally use
• A 2-page self-publishing checklist you can print and check off as you go