What Is a PNG File (And Why It Matters for Your Book)?

If you've ever worked with a designer or illustrator and gotten a file back with ".png" at the end, you might have wondered: what exactly is this, and why did I get this instead of a JPEG?

So you've written a book. Congratulations — that's the hard part! Now you're staring down a new decision that sounds way more technical than it needs to be: print-on-demand or offset printing?

I think that this is what keeps children’s book authors from publishing most of the time— where do you find an illustrator you can trust?