Written Content: Articles, Newsletters, Social Media, Ads
For 16 years, Melissa Taylor created and wrote Imagination Soup, a book review blog that shared the best children’s books and learning resources for parents, grandparents, teachers, and librarians.
She grew Imagination Soup into a six-figure business with 35,000 email subscribers, 400,000 monthly page views, 33,000 Facebook fans, 1.4 million Pinterest followers, by dominating with SEO, creating a yearly editorial content calendar, revenue goals, and budget, implementing marketing campaigns across social media platforms, and staying current on all the newly published children’s books–hundreds each month–which she curated for her audience.
Imagination Soup became well-respected in the children’s publishing industry and the biggest solopreneur book review sites on the Internet.
Imagination Soup’s Social Media:
Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Blue Sky, Threads.
Freelance Content Writing
Melissa’s freelance writing clips in print media include Parenting, Scholastic Parent and Child, USA Today Health, Colorado Parent, FiberArts, Denver Magazine, and Colorado Expression. Melissa’s online freelance writing publications include Brightly, Publishers’ Weekly, Scholastic Parent and Child, ALEX Toys, Parenting.com, Babble.com, and Working Mother. She often writes about topics in education and literature, but is not limited to that and has written articles about sports events, non-profits, and individual people.
Recent Articles
Publisher’s Weekly “Are Early Readers Even Accessible for New Readers?”
Publisher’s Weekly “It’s Not Me, It’s You: An Argument for Shorter Middle Grade Books”
Random House’s Brightly Blog, “No More Robot Reading”
Spoken Content: Presentations & Trainings
Melissa is a certified teacher who not only spoke in the classroom but also trained hundreds of teachers in her role as literacy trainer with the Public Education and Business Coalition.
Now, she presents and trains children’s book authors in best practices with marketing, publicity, social media, school visits, and more.
She’s open to new speaking and training opportunities.
