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Tag: Writing Community

Meet Your Writing Goals – Join a Writing Community!

May 2, 2023 Carol Gordon Ekster

Ask any successful kidlit writer how they succeeded, and chances are they’ll tell you about their writing communities. In this reblog, Carol Gordon Ekster shares the many ways she benefits from the yearly 12 x 12 Picture Book Challenge, one of the most well-respected and supportive online writing communities in the kidlit world. 

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Interview with Valerie Bolling: Together We Ride

April 1, 2022 Joyce Audy Zarins

Joyce: Valerie, you certainly have been busy since I interviewed you for your first book Let’s Dance! Congratulations on your newest–Together We Ride from Chronicle

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Interview with Cathy Carr, Debut MG Author of 365 Days to Alaska

January 8, 2021 Kim Chaffee

Interview with Cathy Carr, Debut MG Author of 365 Days to Alaska, PLUS a Giveaway!

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Power of Community: 2018 Writers’ Rumpus Success Stories

January 1, 2019 Marianne Knowles

Join a group! It really helps. In 2018 our members & associates had 12 Books published, 3 republished, 4 translations, 3 agent signings, 3 award

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Priceless Perspectives

December 8, 2017 Carrie Charley Brown

What one professional hails as genius, another may label as slight. I’m challenging you to gather perspectives.

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How to Help an Author (Beyond Buying the Book): Part Three

March 7, 2014 Alumni & Guests

By Jen Malone For the last few months I’ve been posting a series called How To Help An Author. In January, I talked about the

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How to Help an Author (Beyond Buying the Book): Part One

January 3, 2014 Alumni & Guests

By Jen Malone In this season of making resolutions, what could be a better one than using your talents to help those around you achieve

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Rumpus Writers

  • Alumni & Guests
    • A Conversation with Lyn Miller-Lachmann, Author of TORCH: a YA Novel about Czechoslovakia, Resistance, and Hope
  • Alison Potoma
    • An Authors’ Recipe for Thanksgiving
  • Amy Amberg
    • How Do Libraries Choose Books? Collection Development in Public Libraries: An Interview with Library Director Noelle Boc
  • Carrie Charley Brown
    • Critiquing: A Superpower?
  • cathysogren
    • An Interview with Author Janie Reinart
  • Carol Gordon Ekster
    • Meet Your Writing Goals – Join a Writing Community!
  • Dana Nuenighoff
    • What My Past Manuscripts Have Taught Me
  • DrZatHome
    • HONORING JEWISH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH!
  • Hilary Margitich
    • INTERVIEW WITH DEBUT PICTURE BOOK AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR MARIE BOYD
  • Joyce Audy Zarins
    • Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Authors and Illustrators!
  • Dianna Sanchez
    • The Kitchen Pantry Scientist Math for Kids: An Interview with Rebecca Rapoport and Allanna Chung
  • Keri Demers
    • THE LOUD LIBRARIAN: Written by Jenna Beatrice and Illustrated by Erika Lynne Jones
  • Kim Chaffee
    • Dedications: How Do You Decide?
  • Kirsti Call
    • THE BIG SCREAM, by Kirsti Call, illustrated by Denis Angelov
  • Laura Fineberg Cooper
    • MG Book Talk with Jessica Brody, talented (and prolific!!!) author of AMELIA GRAY IS ALMOST OKAY
  • Lexi Donahue
    • APRIL Middle Grade and Young Adult Opportunities
  • Marcia Strykowski
    • Meet Author/Illustrator Berrie Torgan-Randall!
  • Marti Johnson
    • I have a suggestion…regarding Character Arcs.
  • Marianne Knowles
    • May Picture Book Opportunities
  • Paul Czajak
    • Kids, and the Daunting World of Writing
  • René Bartos
    • Bringing Up a Writing Family: A Kidlit Journey with Award-Winning Author Jane Yolen
  • Rebecca Moody
    • Flat Publishing Profits in 2022 Continue into 2023–What Does It Mean for Authors?

Pew!: The Stinky and Legen-Dairy Gift from Colonel Thomas S. Meacham

By Cathy Stefanec Ogren, Illustrated by Lesley BreenMarch 15, 2023
A giant wheel of cheese--the perfect gift? History picture book available today from Sleeping Bear Press.

Smarty Ants

By Corey Rosen Schwartz and Kirsti Call, Illustrated by Erin TaylorAugust 1, 2023
64 days to go.
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