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» How difficult is it to make money writing children's books?
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post 1473570801 12-03-2016, 12:07 AM
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How difficult is it to make money writing children's books?

Seems so simple to me, fellas. It really does. I have young siblings who've built a vast collection of these stupid books. Kids storybooks. I'll occasionally leaf through them just to see what's going on in the world. See what's happening with the youngsters these days. These books seem to be nothing but short sentences accompanied by average to below average illustration. That's it. That's all I see. The standard is so incredibly low that I'd have no choice but to hit it. Children's books aren't good books. Not the stuff they make these days. You boys ever hear of Pete the Cat? He's like Felix the Cat's retarded jackass of a cousin. He always looks very high on drugs. I've never seen such crappy books in my life. I don't know how he became so popular. It's ridiculous.

I know absolutely nothing about writing and publishing a book. In fact, I failed English twice in high school. However, I am a very talented artist (as seen in my memes) and think i could throw together a children's book on par with the crap being churned out today. Is this more difficult than it seems, fellas? Anyone here have and experience getting a book published? I'm serious about this. I think it might be my calling.
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post 1473570871 12-03-2016, 12:08 AM
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Not hard at all



Just need sickening content
and a character that everyone loves
post 1473571061 12-03-2016, 12:11 AM
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Didn't read, won't read your books either
post 1473571181 12-03-2016, 12:13 AM
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Originally Posted By Nicro327
Didn't read, won't read your books either
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post 1473571251 12-03-2016, 12:14 AM
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To 'make money' it would be difficult. Have you ever looked at a famous and expensive piece of abstract art that shows little skill/technique and thought that you could do the same? Nearly everyone has but almost no one does. To make a living from writing children's books you probably need to be talented as an illustrator and understand kids. Then you need a high profile or incredible luck.
post 1473571271 12-03-2016, 12:14 AM
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Just create anime. Your high levels of autism will propel you very far in that niche.
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post 1473571281 12-03-2016, 12:14 AM
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lol @ your sig

dying to see these memes
post 1473572041 12-03-2016, 12:27 AM
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Originally Posted By Psychotropic
To 'make money' it would be difficult. Have you ever looked at a famous and expensive piece of abstract art that shows little skill/technique and thought that you could do the same? Nearly everyone has but almost no one does. To make a living from writing children's books you probably need to be talented as an illustrator and understand kids. Then you need a high profile or incredible luck.
The high monetary value attached to modern non-representational art is primarily a result of an easily manipulated art market. Read up on it sometime. The average McDonald's worker could afford a Picasso piece if the handful of big Picasso collectors weren't artificially inflating the market for his work. The contemporary art industry is a huge scam. Comparing it to the industry of children's books is like comparing apples to airplanes.
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post 1473572181 12-03-2016, 12:30 AM
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the future is kids shows on youtube like unboxing of toys
post 1473572361 12-03-2016, 12:34 AM
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Originally Posted By Jburn
lol @ your sig

dying to see these memes
Here's the last one I made, partner.

http://forum.obnoxiousbrutes.com/showth...hp?t=161458023
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post 1473573951 12-03-2016, 01:05 AM
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Originally Posted By DonVonDuck
lmfao

Read the whole thread. 10/10 dude, srs i'm hooked. Can you link the other ones?
post 1473574991 12-03-2016, 01:32 AM
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Originally Posted By Jburn
lmfao

Read the whole thread. 10/10 dude, srs i'm hooked. Can you link the other ones?
Glad you enjoyed it. There'll be plenty more coming in 2017, my friend. The best has yet to come. Stay tuned.


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post 1473575041 12-03-2016, 01:32 AM
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Originally Posted By DonVonDuck
The high monetary value attached to modern non-representational art is primarily a result of an easily manipulated art market. Read up on it sometime. The average McDonald's worker could afford a Picasso piece if the handful of big Picasso collectors weren't artificially inflating the market for his work. The contemporary art industry is a huge scam. Comparing it to the industry of children's books is like comparing apples to airplanes.
You missed my point. You think that making a children's book should be easy because the competition is 'crap'. Yet you admit to knowing nothing about it. This is a similar reaction to some people that see very abstract art and say 'I could have painted that'. All this has nothing to do with rich people spending absurd amounts of money on art. I don't know any kid's book writers but I doubt any of them started just because they thought it would be a piece of piss and could make easy money.

Btw I have repped you in the past for your meme attempts.
post 1473575141 12-03-2016, 01:36 AM
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Had to have been a miscer that wrote those "Shut the phuck up and sleep" books that were so popular a little while ago.
post 1473600661 12-03-2016, 10:17 AM
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Lmao top quality memes bro, srs. My favorite is Hurt Feewings, I Disagree and Chin Up.

Don't stop making the memes!
post 1473601521 12-03-2016, 10:31 AM
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prob hard as fuk.

id liken to making it on kindle. every mo'fuker has tried it

the competition within that niche is ridiculous

creating and writing the books would be the easy part
post 1473602281 12-03-2016, 10:41 AM
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Almost every single female who studies English wants to do this. Good luck.
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post 1473603441 12-03-2016, 10:52 AM
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Get to it. I think it's an interesting market. The thing is though, you absolutely need to self publish. In order to do that you need to create your own brand, and handle everything that comes with a one man startup. But it really is something I want to try as a project somewhere down the line myself.

Maybe even drop in some subtle political redpills for the kids to swallow.



Brilliant.

Okay not srs about the redpills but srs about it being an interesting market.
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post 1473603701 12-03-2016, 10:55 AM
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post 1473604611 12-03-2016, 11:03 AM
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I hear ya OP

I also never understood why you had to go to college to be a 1st grade teacher. Can't the 2nd grade kids teach 1st grade???
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It's not harder than making a living from most kinds of books, but it takes some time to find your target audience.
You can check out Deveo Studio if you're looking for a success story in this industry.
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Its a hard niche to get into and make money, but once you have a following you can basically just draw your acid trips and make bank.

I have a one year old and all the shows he watches are complete and utter crap. 90% are just the same songs by different characters and the rest is a literal acid trip of WTF.
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