The First Book

When my husband was in college to become a school teacher he wrote a children's book as part of a class assignment. His professor was impressed enough with the book that she sent a copy of it to her friend who was a publisher in New York City.

Her friend really liked the book but his firm was not interested in books that had not already been published. What? How does an author get published if they have to be published to be published... Needless to say he brought the book home, placed it on a shelf, where it sat for several years.

At a street fair in a local small town my husband happened to meet an independent publisher. It was around 2010ish and 'Indie' publishers were a new thing. We didn't even know what it was. They told my husband that there were interested in publishing a children's book and wanted to see what he had wrote in college.

So we met them and brought the book. Really didn't expect anything to happen, just thought it would be a nice evening and we would get to meet some new people.

Shockingly the Indie publisher very much wanted to publish the book and any other children's books we might produce. Several years down the road and we now own our own Indie publishing company.