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Author: Marianne Knowles
Marianne Knowles writes picture books, chapter books, and YA, runs an SCBWI critique group, and serves as co-admin for the group blog Writers' Rumpus. By day, she works for the Museum of Science in Boston. An owl once came down her chimney, but it did not bring a Hogwarts admission letter. Marianne is represented by Emily Mitchell of Wernick & Pratt Literary.
Fiction: A Safe Place to Feel
A couple of months back one of my writing groups had an email discussion that went something like this. Details have been changed to shield
New Publisher Bab’l Books: Bilingual Stories for Bilingual Families
Jair Hernandez, one of the founders of Bab’l Books, is using his Harvard Business School degree to fill a need: bilingual children’s books for bilingual
10 Word Pairs Even Experts Mix Up
As an editor, part of my job is to make sure that published material is correct. Words that sound alike but have different spellings are
What’s Up with THAT, Amazon?
I had time to catch up with other people’s writing-related blogs over the Independence Day weekend, and discovered a trending theme: Amazon, the digital marketplace
Blogiversary Gift: 15 of Our Favorite Blogs
Writers’ Rumpus is 2 years old this week! Our first post, Let the Writers’ Rumpus Start!, went live on June 11, 2013. Since then, we’ve
How My Mother Raised a Writer
As a kid growing up, I knew that mothers weren’t all the same. But it took me a while to realize how unusual my own
World Backup Day: BACK IT UP!
Today is World Backup Day 2015. Save your work in progress before you lose it to an April Fool’s virus! Here are some simple suggestions.
Book Review: SAVE THE CAT! by Blake Snyder
I found SAVE THE CAT! The Last Book on Screenwriting That You’ll Ever Need through a novelist’s blog. I was scouring the internet for help
Inked Voices: A new way to meet & critique
Today, Writers’ Rumpus is chatting with Brooke McIntyre, founder of Inked Voices, a website and tool that lets writers run cloud-based critique groups. Brooke is
Remember: We Writers Are a Lucky Bunch
GUEST POST by Dede Perkins I have a confession to make. Even though I write for a living and tell people I really do love
Finding Time to Write: Part 3
Part 3: The Writer’s Retreat If you’ve followed this series, you may have noticed a progression in quantities of time: Part 1, Writing While Waiting,
Finding Time to Write: Part 2
Part 2: Hiding Out Even when you’ve been bitten by the writing bug and have no issues with coming up with ideas or wrestling with
Finding Time to Write: Part 1
Part 1: Writing While Waiting Making time to write is a familiar challenge. But a few months ago when I took a new job the
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