Jul 30, 2026 · 31 min · 11 segments
This week my daughter and I talk about our recent publishing adventure of writing two children's books together. We explore the personal experiences that inspired our first book about "energy bubbles"…
Diane HullettHost
Anna HullettGuest
So how did we, how did we, you know, what are the options for publishing these days and how did we get started?
It seems like there are three main options, publishing fully with a publisher, doing hybrid publishing, which is what we did, and then also doing self-publishing is an option.
But we chose hybrid publishing and our friends in Michigan had a connection for us.
So we got connected with a hybrid publishing company called Mission Point Press.
They helped us with writing the book, finding an illustrator, doing the layout for the book, and we paid them upfront to do that.
And I think one of the interesting things about working with them for me right from the beginning is we had this spring break for Anna, for you.
We had this spring break where you came back and I had had wrist surgery, so we couldn't really do anything.
And so We kind of said, hey, maybe this is a good week to write this draft of this book and start this book.
But I think I thought that we would need to make the book perfect before we took it anywhere.
And instead, because we gave Mission Point Press a call, we really quickly realized they really wanted kind of the concept and the draft perfect.
And that was just mind boggling to me, because I think if we hadn't given them a call, we would have spent a lot more time kind of fine tuning it and going over and over and over it.
popping a draft to them that was really pretty rough, ended up being like this door opening to this whole way of working with other people.
So how did we, how did we, you know, what are the options for publishing these days and how did we get started?
It seems like there are three main options, publishing fully with a publisher, doing hybrid publishing, which is what we did, and then also doing self-publishing is an option.
But we chose hybrid publishing and our friends in Michigan had a connection for us.
So we got connected with a hybrid publishing company called Mission Point Press.
They helped us with writing the book, finding an illustrator, doing the layout for the book, and we paid them upfront to do that.
And I think one of the interesting things about working with them for me right from the beginning is we had this spring break for Anna, for you.
We had this spring break where you came back and I had had wrist surgery, so we couldn't really do anything.
And so We kind of said, hey, maybe this is a good week to write this draft of this book and start this book.
But I think I thought that we would need to make the book perfect before we took it anywhere.
And instead, because we gave Mission Point Press a call, we really quickly realized they really wanted kind of the concept and the draft perfect.
And that was just mind boggling to me, because I think if we hadn't given them a call, we would have spent a lot more time kind of fine tuning it and going over and over and over it.
popping a draft to them that was really pretty rough, ended up being like this door opening to this whole way of working with other people.
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