A few weeks ago, Cape Verde went on an unplanned World Cup run — and it turned into Doreen’s strongest month yet. Here’s what happened when a live cultural moment met an app built to respond to it in real time, and what it proved that her print book never could.
Doreen’s book app made its first $500 almost entirely from people who already knew her. Here’s what happened when we built a landing page and ran a small ad campaign to reach total strangers instead.
Before you even start your first draft, there’s an opportunity to think bigger. Your story isn’t just a standalone product—it’s a launchpad for something much greater.
Most authors think making money from a book means selling more copies—but that’s only part of the story. In this post, we explore how to monetize your children’s book beyond sales by turning your ideas, skills, and creative assets into new income streams.
Learn how to add clear, readable story text to a children’s book app using Unity and TextMesh Pro. This post supports the Hidden Quest video tutorial and walks through the core ideas behind positioning, styling, and managing narrative text across multiple pages.
Less than a month after turning her children’s book into an interactive app for iOS and Android, Doreen Pena made her first $500. Not through ads. Not through luck. And not through Amazon’s algorithm. This post is a continuation of Doreen’s journey, which began with a simple experiment: what if a children’s book didn’t stop […]
Doreen, a self-published children’s book author, transformed her Amazon KDP book into an interactive story app using Unity and MailerLite — no ads, just free tools and smart strategy. Within weeks, her simple MVP app attracted over 300 new subscribers, proving what’s possible…
Updating your navigation buttons across dozens of scenes can be frustrating — especially when you have to change them one by one. Imagine having to update the same button across 30 pages of your interactive story app! That’s where Unity Prefabs come in. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use Prefabs to save time, […]
In this previous post – How Children’s Book Authors Can Build an Email List Using Unity and MailerLite; No Coding Needed -, I shared a simple way to build your audience using a free tool – MailingListSignUp for Unity Game Engine – I created. Following a recent update, I’ve now put together this step-by-step guide […]
Learn how to create an interactive children’s storybook app in Unity by adding simple page navigation with C# scripting. This step-by-step Unity tutorial shows authors, illustrators, and beginners how to wire up buttons, use a lightweight script, and transform a traditional picture book into a playable story app. With just 10 lines of code, you’ll unlock seamless page-turning and bring your digital storybook to life.
