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M is for Money #AtoZChallenge

4/15/2017

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Today I'm blogging about my least favorite subject - money.

Why I don't like to talk about Money

It's so cold, heartless, yet so necessary to pay the bills! I'd much rather dwell on the fun parts of writing and reading picture books - the words, the emotional pull, creating that really great cohesive story...
​Yet, picture books are essentially a business of buying and selling goods, so money is an important consideration for both Writers and Readers alike.

For Writers: Making Money

Picture Book writers often hear, "don't quit your day job" when pursuing a career as an author. This is true, to an extent.
Very few writers make money off their books alone. Most have multiple streams of income, through
  • author visits
  • speaker events ​​
  • online webinars
  • critique services​​
  • writer's coaching
  • and other creative means.

For Readers: Money Sense

I like to volunteer at my kids' school library, especially during Book Fair Week. Maybe it's a California thing, but every book and item sold at the fair is the listed price "+tax". It's that plus tax part that is so hard to get those children to understand! They see $10.99 and think they need $11 for the book, when really they need closer to $12.
I get it, though. How on earth can you figure out what 8.25% of $10.99 is?
I don't.
I take $11 and add 10% (a much easier math problem).
Then I say to the bewildered buyers, "The price is $10.99, so you need about $12.10."
This way the kids are happy to get a little change back instead of upset because they didn't bring in enough money.   
I know I'm overestimating, so if it's close, I tell them to see if they have enough. But they need to know $11 is not enough.

​I've done this trick so much that when a store manager gave me a ten percent discount, she had to grab a calculator and I already knew the new price.


Links:

I started an idea yesterday and I really like it... so I'm going to keep doing it. Below are 5 blogs I visited as part of the A to Z Blogging Challenge.
Trudy @ Reel Focus
Andy's Escape Blog
Impromptu Promptings
The Great Raven
Into Another World
And a link I found about how language evolves (ties to my post on Kids)
AP accepts new rules

And the reason I'm blogging like crazy

A to Z Blogging Challenge
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