Authors & Illustrators Wild About Kidlit!
Having been in the Coney Island area of Brooklyn, NY last year during the crazy busy Mermaid Parade, I was interested when I received an
Every day, more and more people take pen to paper (or put fingers to keys) in search of their inner muse. It takes a long
Are you certain you know who you are writing for and what species of story you’ve concocted? These two significant pieces of information must be
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.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that just about everyone perusing this post would agree that reading is a vital
By Carrie Charley Brown As you might have noticed from Shape Your Story, Part One and Two, using a formula can often springboard me smack
In Part I of Audiobooks as Leisure Time, I discussed considering the hours I spend in the car commuting back and forth to work leisure time.
Schools visits are magical…most of the time. My very first school visit started with technology issues. After struggling for half an hour, I decided to give
REMEMBER, NOBODY BUYS A BOOK THEY HAVEN’T HEARD OF.* Read this interview with children’s book marketing expert, Deborah Sloan, to find out how to get
There are two questions I get most often from well-intentioned family and friends. The first is “You must be so rich now that your book
Mobility increases productivity. Although you write B.I.C. (Jane Yolen’s famous rule #1 on writing: keep your “Butt in Chair”), that chair now has wings. With
By Almitra Clay You know how you tell someone you’re a writer and they say, “oh, I have this great idea for a novel,” and
By Paul Czajak Slush pile. Two words writers hate. So much so that I use it like a swear, “What the Slush pile!!” But it is
By Diana Zipeto Dr. Brené Brown, vulnerability researcher, says that in the midst of struggle, the two words we most want to hear are, “Me,
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