Authors & Illustrators Wild About Kidlit!
By Sarah Lynne Reul I’m still working out the best way to dive into social media for my illustration work, but recently I started using
By Carrie Charley Brown Have you ever noticed how much more you get done when working with a deadline? With the pressure on, you must
By Dana Nuenighoff The idea of co-writing might seem great at first: “Hey, I only have to write half a story!” “Yay, I have someone
By Kirsti Call I’ve always loved poetry. Robert Frost’s STOPPING BY THE WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING and Emily Dickinson’s I’M NOBODY are permanently seared
Over the past month, I have been sending out query letters to agents for my middle grade science fiction manuscript. Writing the query letter took much
Tomorrow’s do-ers are reading kidlit today. Keep writing! You may have missed it, but this past Friday a rocket returned to Earth and landed on
CAROL GORDON EKSTER: I met the talented author/illustrator Elizabeth O. Dulemba at the wonderful writers’ retreat, Kindling Words a few years ago. When I read
It’s very easy to write bad rhymes. Lots of people do it. Therefore, there is a stigma associated with rhyming picture books. Note: The following
At the library I borrowed two middle grade/ YA books, both of which are astonishing. One deals with a realistic cultural issue frequently in the news,
By Almitra Clay I’ve been on a personal journey for the past few months, doing something that I’ve needed to do for a long time:
By Kristine Carlson Asselin I’m often asked to present my workshop on the differences between “showing” in your writing vs. “telling” in your writing. I
When I look at our driveway, it’s clear that the neighborhood kids aren’t afraid to just draw. The only thing that wipes out their ideas
By Sarah Lynne Reul (This is the final entry in a three-part series – earlier posts here: Part 1: Iterations and Part 2: Planning) Finally, my favorite point
I first discovered Anna Staniszewski when my kids and I read her Dirt Diary series. We adored them and quickly devoured her Unfairy Tale Life
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