Jimmer Fredette book for youth
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We are publishing a biography book about college basketball player of the year, Jimmer Fredette, for youth readers, ages 9 to 15 (but it is interesting to other ages too). It highlights his successes as a stellar high school football and basketball player in New York, high scoring select AAU basketball player, and as a college superstar at BYU. The book introduces his family and hometown, and shares examples of his goals, work ethic, motivations, and standards.
The book's author has over 90 books published, including many celebrity biographies. She has already provided her beginning draft.
The expected ISBN is 978-1-937516-02-4.
The title?
We are having a "title" contest on Facebook. Please post your title and/or subtitle suggestion as a comment at the contest note on Facebook. We will send five books for the title and five books for the subtitle that we choose from the submissions (based on the earliest posting on our Facebook page). Note that we will make the final decision and may decide not to use a title or subtitle that was submitted.
Photos
We have a few photos we personally shot, but we'd like to get some better photos to include in the book and for the cover. If you own some photos and can share rights for them for our book, please let us know.
Book cover
We'd also like to do a book cover contest. Post your book designs somewhere and then link to them from our Facebook page. If we work with you and use your print-ready cover, we will send you fifty of these books. (Please note on the cover itself or in its description that it is a suggested cover design idea.)
This contest for book cover design has not started yet, but you can start planning your design!
Marketing
If you can help with promoting the biography, please let us know. We are seeking attentive book reviewers and good contacts with some retail stores. Please note that we can not send a book for every book review request. Please let us know about the potential readership and audience size. (In our experience, less than 15 percent of sent books result in a published review article.)
The editor is an avid basketball fan, who coached select basketball, was an assistant mens coach in the Scenic West Conference (back when Coach Rose was at Dixie and Ricks had collegiate athletics), and published high school recruiting newsletters.