{"id":1172,"date":"2019-09-22T15:27:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T19:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2019-09-22T15:36:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T19:36:28","slug":"and-you-can-love-me-my-experience-writing-a-childrens-book-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/?p=1172","title":{"rendered":"AND YOU CAN LOVE ME my experience writing a children’s book (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

And You Can Love Me a story for everyone who loves someone with ASD<\/em><\/p>\n

the process of getting this picture book published<\/p>\n

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Having received positive feedback at the picture book workshop facilitated by Alison McGhee, I pondered what next.\u00a0 Alison helped me to wordsmith Ethan\u2019s story, and then suggested we send it to her agent.\u00a0 Seriously, I\u2019ve never had an agent or even thought about getting one.\u00a0 I was introduced to LHP by a friend, and I\u2019ve been loyal to Victor Volkman and LHP ever since.<\/p>\n

I agreed, however, to have Alison McGhee send And You Can Love Me<\/em> to her agent.\u00a0 The agent, however, had concerns about \u201cpolitical correctness\u201d and that was that.\u00a0 But I believed in Ethan\u2019s story-it was his story, although fictionalized.\u00a0 I took the agent\u2019s concerns into consideration and asked others, with experience and knowledge relevant to the story and the responses were overwhelmingly positive and supportive of the diversity of opinions within the autism\u00a0 community.<\/p>\n

I, again, professed loyalty to LHP and submitted Ethan\u2019s story to the indie publisher.\u00a0 The response was \u201cyes\u201d-yet, with an indie publisher I needed to take responsibility for the art whether paying an artist or finding someone to participate by accepting a share of the royalties.\u00a0 Eventually, the granddaughter of a high school friend, agreed and we set out on a multi generational journey, which also, eventually, included a woman whose age was between the artist and the writer, to hand letter the story.\u00a0 We were, all three of us, newbies to the world of picture book publication.\u00a0 Thank goodness, LHP has a history of picture book publications, and Victor was supportive and patient as we created a manuscript print ready.<\/p>\n

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Reviews are slowly appearing on Amazon and Goodreads (see below) , but the review that meant the most to me was the simple note my grandson\u2019s public school teacher sent home with him:<\/p>\n

\u201cThanks for the book!\u00a0 It was great.\u00a0 We read it in class & Ethan was smiling the whole time.\u00a0 Such a great book.\u201d<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/You-Can-Love-Me-everyone-ebook\/product-reviews\/B07QYGXGK2\/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_show_all_top?ie=UTF8&reviewerType=all_reviews<\/a><\/p>\n

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And You Can Love Me a story for everyone who loves someone with ASD the process of getting this picture book published   Having received positive feedback at the picture book workshop facilitated by Alison McGhee, I pondered what next.\u00a0 Alison helped me to wordsmith Ethan\u2019s story, and then suggested …<\/p>\n

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