Birth Stories for Books: Posts About Paths to Publication, Summary Post

In 2018, I wrote a guest post on Tara Lazar's blog that described my path to publication for my books, Where Does a Pirate Go Potty? and Where Does a Cowgirl Go Potty? That post inspired me to start asking other authors to share their path to publication stories with me. So began a new series of guest blog posts I've been publishing periodically ever since.

"Birth Stories for Books: Posts About Paths to Publication from Published Authors and Illustrators" is a great series to bookmark and follow.  I will add links to this page as new posts go up. (Note: I've also added a link to the path to publication stories for my first books below. Although that post is not officially part of this series, it aligns with the "Path to Publication" topic/theme.)

Here goes:

Sandy Grubb, Just Like Click (Fitzroy Books, Apr 2024)

Sara T. Behrman, The Sea Hides a Seahorse (The Collective Book Studio, Apr 2024)

Sue Heavenrich, The Pie That Molly Grew (Sleeping Bear Press, Aug 2023)

Carla Marie Manly, PHD, The Joy of Imperfect Love (Familius, Mar 2024)

Jessica Marie, The Mess Monster,  (Independently Published, Oct 2023)

Robin Hall, The Littlest Weaver, (Familius, Oct 2023)

Candy Wellins, Mabel's Tospy-Turvy Homes, (Beaming Books, Oct 2022)

Phaea Crede, Super Pizza and Kid Kale (Viking, Sept 2022)

Sheila Modir, PhD and Jeff Kashou, LMFT, The Proudest Color (Familius,  Sept 2021)

Rebecca Kraft Rector, Little Red and the Big Bad Editor (Aladdin, Sept 2022)

Amanda Rowe, If There Never Was a You (Familius, March 2019)

Terry Ann Marsh, The Three Little Sprigs (BrandyLane/Belle Isle Books, July 2022)

Kaitlyn Wells, A Family Looks Like Love (Penguin Kids, May 2022)

Carol Gordon Ekster, Some Daddies (Beaming Books, May 2022)

Elisa Boxer: One Turtle's Last Straw (Crown Books for Young Readers, May 2022)

Valerie Bolling, Together We Ride (Chronicle Books, April 2022)

Robin Currie, How to Dress a Dinosaur (Familius, March 2022)

Christine Evans, The Wish That Got Away (Albert Whitman, & Co, April 2022)

Brian Russo, A Friend for Yoga Bunny (HarperCollins, February 2022)

June Smalls, He Leads: Mountain Gorilla, the Gentle Giant (Familius, March 2022)

Jeni Chen, Emet's Box (Little Press, April 2022)

Rebecca Fox Starr, Mommy Ever After (Familius, March 2022)

Nancy Dearborn, Hugga Loula (Familius, March, 2021)

Randel McGee, Zhang Heng and the Incredible Earthquake Detector (Familius, Nov 2021)

Jenny Jiang, Just Like Flowers (Self Published, September, 2021)

Laura Gehl, Who is a Scientist? (Millbrook Press, October, 2021)

Denise Gallagher, Moonsong (The Little Press, October, 2021)

S.K. Wenger, Chicken Frank, Dinosaur! (Albert Whitman & Company, October, 2021)

Tracy C. Gold, Trick or Treat, Bugs to Eat (Sourcbooks, August, 2021)

Phaea Crede, Jet the Cat (Is Not a Cat) (Barefoot Books, May, 2021)

Kirsti Call, Cow Says Meow (HMH Books for Young Readers, March, 2021)

Moni Ritchie Hadley, The Star Festival (Albert Whitman & Co, April, 2021)

Christine Van Zandt, A Brief History of Underpants (Quarto, April, 2021)

Tracy C. Gold, Everyone's Sleepy But the Baby (Familius, April, 2021)

Rebecca Kraft Rector, Squish Squash Squished (Nancy Paulsen Books, February, 2021)

Michele McAvoy, Cookie & Milk (Cardinal Rule Press, October, 2019)

Stephanie Shaw, Tails From the Animal Shelter (Sleeping Bear Press, August, 2020)

Valerie Bolling, Let's Dance! (Boyds Mills & Kane, March, 2020)

Elizabeth Rusch, Several New Releases (2020)

Kathy MacMillan, Nita's Day (Familius, May, 2020)

Janet Sumner Johnson, Help Wanted, Must Love Books (Capstone, March, 2020)

Vivian Kirkfield, Several New Releases (2019)

Debra Bartch, Crow Spirit (Spork, 2019)

Josh Funk, How to Code a Rollercoaster (Viking Books for Young Readers, Sept, 2019)

Patti Richards, Contributing Author to Thanku: Poems of Gratitude (Millbrook Press, Sept, 2019)

Aimee Reid, You Are My Friend: The Story of Mister Rogers and His Neighborhood (Abrams Books, 2019)

Jackie Azúa Kramer, That's for Babies, (Clavis, 2019)

Jodi Moore, I Love My Dragon (Flashlight Press, 2019)

Estela Bernal, Can You See ME Now? (Pinata Books, 2014)

Carol Gordon Ekster, You Know What? (Clavis, 2017)

Tara Lazar, Your First Day of Circus School (Tundra Books, June 2019)

Rosanne Parry, Last of the Name (Carolrhoda Books, 2019)

Emma Bland Smith, To Live on An Island (Little Bigfoot, May 2019)

Laura Sassi, Diva Delores and the Opera House Mouse (Sterling, 2018)

Amy Losak, discussing Sydell Rosenberg's H is For Haiku (Penny Candy Books, 2018)

Robin Koontz, Bug (Sterling, April 2019)

Stephanie Shaw, Piece by Piece (Sleeping Bear Press, 2017)

Jane Whittingham, Queenie Quail Can't Keep Up (Pajama Press, March 2019)

Dale Basye, Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go (Random House, 2008)

Caroline Nastro, The Bear Who Couldn't Sleep (NorthSouth Books, 2016)

Linda Elovitz Marshall, Good Night, Wind (Holiday House, Feb 2019)

Matthew Lasley, Pedro's Pan (Graphic Arts Books, Feb 2019)

Diana Murray, One Snowy Day (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, 2018)

Holly L. Niner, No More Noisy Nights (Flashlight Press, 2017)

Jane Kurtz, What Do They Do With All That Poo? (Beach Lane Books, June 2018)

Hannah Holt, The Diamond and the Boy (Balzer + Bray, October 2018)

Sarah Darer Littman, Anything But Okay (Scholastic, October 2018)

Jody J. Little, Mostly The Honest Truth (Harper, March 2019)

Dawn Prochovnic, Story Time with Signs & Rhymes (Abdo, 2009-2012)


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