My Journey Has Begun.

Saturday I participated in my first book fair. I sold a few books, but more importantly, I learned a few things.

I learned that my display with all the pictures of Jazzy, though really cute, lent the impression that my books were about Pit bulls.

My books are about concepts: Time, the Alphabet, Counting backwards, Months, Exploring, Friendship/bullying, and shapes. Now all I have to do is revamp my presentation to show this.

Thanks to the wonderful authors at the book fair for sharing their insights as well. Our books were about different topics but written with passion.

These are the authors and links to their books:

Shawnee Walker - Milo Series

VaLerie Irene - Raffi and Friends

Pamela D Beverly - What If An Octopus Followed Me Home

Christopher McGhee - PJ The Purple Penguin

David Engel - Unika Collection & The Color of Love

Aisha Rice - My Kinky Coily Hair

CQ Wilder - The Karla The Dog Collection

Brandy Aiken - The Beauty of Loving You

Not on Amazon

If you are looking for Jazzy's Books on Amazon you won't find them. There are several reasons why I don't want to sell on Amazon.

1. They take a huge cut of your profit.

2. They do nothing to market your book.

3. You have to start purchasing ads or other "click" numbers to spread the word. I just read that people pay their family members to purchase books in order to get the numbers up. That's crazy!

4. You are not in control of anything anyone says about your book. If someone posts a review that I find is not relevant, I have the ability to remove it. For example (and this happened) an author was given a rating of 2 because the book arrived bent. That was not the author's fault, it was a postal issue.

5. When you are out of inventory your ranking drops so you have to be really diligent about printing large quantities. I can print as many or as little as I want.

6. There is no personal contact with your customer. I love to travel and I love talking with people. I will be attending book fairs and festivals as a vendor. This way, I get to interact with my customers.

7. I do not know why, but I've read some posts from authors who talk about Amazon changing the price of their book. I would not want anyone else messing with that.

8. It's always a game to get your numbers up. Apparently, the higher the numbers, the more likely your book will appear in a search. If you want a "featured" status you have to be selling with a particular plan. I don't want to pay for that kind of hassle.

I don't look at numbers, I look at children who are enjoying and learning from my books.

I see librarians who are using my books to teach.

This is why I write!

If you are a fan and you want to let people know about my books, please share my website since that is the only place you will find them to purchase online.

https://www.jazzysbooks.com/buy-jazzy-books

Doggy Mom Distracted by Bunnies

Today I had planned on getting some photos of my friend Dawn's doggies who will be starring in one of my new Jazzy books. However, with all the rain the grass is a mud bath and taking photos of muddy dog's is not the best for my book.

I did get one picture I needed of Rain in bed. Dawn fosters a lot of critters and currently has two baby bunnies. So instead of photographing doggies I took pictures of bunnies. What fun.