How many times have you been told, “Write what you know?” If your experience is anything like mine, too many times to count. I’d like
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The 7 Layer Cake Writing Method
Baking a 7 layer cake is like writing a story. You have so many tempting and tasty choices to make, and each new layer builds
Challenge Accepted
Happy December, everyone! Can you believe the year is almost over? If you’re like me, you are trying to live in the moment, with all
Finding Your Place in the Writing Community
Writing can often seem like a solitary occupation, and for a new writer this can be discouraging. Sometimes it feels like you’re writing in a
Paul Czajak, Children’s Author and Critique Buddy Extraordinaire
CAROL GORDON EKSTER: My writing path crossed with Paul’s when he first joined our local NESCBWI critique group. We continued to share our writing journey
Happy Book Birthday, Roller Boy
Walk, run, or skate to your nearest bookseller or library: today is Roller Boy’s book birthday!
Summer Writing
Even if you don’t have as much BIC time or that laser focus, there are still many valuable ways to be productive during these summer months.
Brilligs And Other Ways A Bookshop Sells Your Books
Once you have written or illustrated your heartfelt story, overcome the publishing gatekeeper hurdles, and your book has been birthed, here is another crucial step
Nine Reasons Your Children’s Librarian Should be Your Hero
On February 14th Diana Haneski, the library media specialist at Margery Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, saved the lives of fifty students and
Not Giving Up on Readers Who Struggle!
My first thought after reading an article in the SCBWI Winter 2018 newsletter about accommodations for dyslexic readers was that this significant problem seemed easy
Three rules: being brutal enough when revising.
Our stories are often long in gestation and as personal to us as if they were born of our flesh and blood. If you want
10 Things NOT to Say in your Query – Advice from a Children’s Publisher
of Rob Broder is Publisher of Ripple Grove Press, an independent, family-run children’s book publishing company. He and his wife Amanda started Ripple Grove Press
