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From Blank Page to Published (Part 5): Formatting
After doing all the writing, editing, finalising the illustrations and writing up the front and back matter, it was time to put...
Y. Y. Chan
May 29, 20203 min read
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Officially Published!
This post is a couple of days late. But yes, I'm officially published! (In case you missed the memo...) You can check out my book here:...
Y. Y. Chan
May 16, 20202 min read
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From Blank Page to Published (Part 4): Writing the 'Other Stuff'
While the books were being edited and illustrated, I started to work on writing the other stuff such as blurbs, author bio,...
Y. Y. Chan
May 9, 20208 min read
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More Updates! (Picture Book Launch Date: 13 May!)
So a lot of things happened over the last couple of weeks and I haven't had a chance to update as I have a lot of other things going on....
Y. Y. Chan
May 8, 20204 min read
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From Blank Page to Published (Part 3): Getting it Illustrated
After I had sent the two versions to the editors, I needed to work on getting the picture book illustrated. I divided the text into...
Y. Y. Chan
May 1, 20204 min read
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From Blank Page to Published (Part 2): Editing
Here is Part 2 of my self-publishing journey. I've been busy with a lot of little things over the last week(s) but also felt like I had...
Y. Y. Chan
Apr 28, 20205 min read
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Exciting News and Updates!
Ok... It's been over a week since I last wrote a blogpost and I was hoping to continue my series about the 'Blank Page to Published'...
Y. Y. Chan
Apr 20, 20202 min read
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From Blank Page to Published (Part 1): The First Draft
I am going to write a series of blogposts on the whole process of writing my first book - from Blank Page to Published (and all the...
Y. Y. Chan
Apr 8, 20207 min read
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Children's Books on Death, Loss & Grief
When I decided to write 'Can You Hear Me?' I searched around for a range of children's books that covered similar themes. I already had a...
Y. Y. Chan
Apr 5, 202012 min read
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How the story was born
I started writing my first children’s book in February 2020, when the COVID-19 started to spread around Hong Kong, confining us to our homes
Y. Y. Chan
Mar 31, 20204 min read
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