Children's Car Book

[Fishy Dave]

Blatant self promotion.....but with PistonHeads relevance.

Some of you may have seen my readers cars thread? https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

When I bought the Corvette at the end of 2017 I never imagined it would lead me to write a book for children, but here it is. I hope it might be of interest to some of you with car loving little ones or grand children? The illustrations are all based on photos I took during the US road trip as part of buying the car.



https://www.racelife.co.uk/adventuresofclive

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1838490809

I'm chuffed that Karun Chandhok bought a copy, his son loves it, so we met at his house in December.



For anyone thinking of writing a book I'll share a little of how I did it. I've written one book previously, a BMW Z4 buyers guide, so this was quite different. I decided to go down the route of self-publishing this time. Having looked around at off the shelf packages for around £1000, I went through Kindle Direct Publishing (Amazon) instead and bought an ISBN myself. This took a little more work and research, but ended up costing considerably less. Once I had worked on the images and words (this took me months), I put the book together using MS Publisher, producing a pdf.

Sales are very modest, but at least it's now easy, with no packing and posting to worry about, or having to order stock. It astonishs me that they can print a book on demand all over the world and deliver it next day! I'm paid around £1 per book commission (paid monthly), about the same as the BMW book that I wrote through a publisher (paid yearly). I'm now working on the second book, with 'Clive's' European adventures.

Hope that's of interest to some of you, thanks, Dave