Writer Mom Life Episode 47: Lauren Ranalli and Transferable Skills

Lauren Ranalli is passionate about many things! Public health, diverse books for children, and writing her own children’s books. One way to balance everything is applying the skills learned in one area to her other projects. She’s gotten creative with the use of her time, along with how she sells her books WITHOUT the use of print-on-demand like so many others do.

In this week’s episode, Daphne and Lauren talk about:

• How Lauren sells her books mostly through her own website
• Why she decided to work with a small, family-run printer instead of print on demand with Amazon
• The logistics of how she manages shipping out her own books
• Her daily and weekly schedule for how she manages everything
• How her non-writing job influences her self-publishing job as far as transferable skills
• How she defines success and how it’s evolved over time
• How she and her husband work together to find pockets of time 
• How she promotes diverse children’s books and how you can build an “intentional bookshelf” yourself!
• Where you can go to find more diverse books