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What do you do with GOOD NEWS?
Write, revise. Critique, revise. Submit, revise. And then one day: submit, interest, offer, contract! For every five years of…
April 8, 2025-
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7 FREE Ways to Keep Gifting into the New Year!
Here’s 2025 all fresh and shiny, full of hope and all the little calendar boxes ready to fill! While…
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Books to Read BEFORE You Write
Mentor books are those an author studies before they do any writing. For a retreat last week, I had…
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Writing is a Group Activity!
I recently went to an in-person retreat – one of the few I have gone to since COVID-19. I…
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Writing is a Group Activity!
I recently went to an in-person retreat – one of the few I have gone to since COVID-19. I…
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Kids Lit
Our Most Important Sentence
Once the dream book is finally contracted, the most important writing starts. Essentially what we write in preparation for…
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Is That True??!!
I heard comments/complaints in a writer’s group recently that “it is impossible to get your book into the library”…
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Summer is for Experimenting!
I have been working/pitching a series of four board books for the last few years on the seasonal changes…
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Pitch Opportunities
Last month we put together pitches – the 30-second “What is your book about?” Unless you happen to end up next…
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Wind Up and. . .Pitch!
“So, tell me about your book.” What a great invitation – whether it is from family or friends or…
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Advice for Just Starting Out
Has this happened to you? You are introduced to someone new as a children’s author. Response: “I have an…
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Even A Chewable Board book Must Be Accurate
Research for 181 words? Research and back matter have never been more important. Reviewers and consumers have access to…
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Reading or Reading Aloud?
Libraries buy quality books for all ages in the children’s department and hope to match the book with the…
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A Season for Something Else
One a scale of 1-10, parts of the year 2023 were a minus 6. We saw family, we traveled,…
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Bring Back the BackList!
The press, the marketers, and the bookstores all clamoring for autographs and first-day Amazon rankings! Then “NEW” is over.…
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Help Me with My Book!
As more books are published in a variety of ways (traditional, self-pub, hybrid, assisted), a whole crop of people…
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In 25 Words or Less…
“I was born as a small child…and did stuff.” My bio in nine words, but who’s counting? One piece…
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Yoo-Hoo Agents!
One gazillion years ago when I started writing on stone tablets, I never needed an agent to get published.…
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Inside the Ten-Foot Line: Conception to Publication Part One
As I wrote this article, I got an email from my publisher letting me know that the pre-order sales…
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Every Single Word
Have you met adults who somehow believe that writing a picture book is EASY because there are so FEW…
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Multi Award-Winning Author!
There are some thrilling moments in book publication that make all the back work (sometimes YEARS of edits!) pale…
June 8, 2023 -
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AI:Part 2 In which I get a 4-star review for a book not yet written!
People seem to be taking sides on AI and feeling strongly about it. Recently we had an AI adventure…
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Exploding Inboxes
My e-mail is suddenly full of opportunities! Live face-to-face conferences are happening all over the country, sponsored by different…
April 8, 2023 -
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Three Little Pigs by AI
Two Epic Proportion Floods are predicted in the publishing industry. Artificial Intelligence has discovered writing and illustrating. At the…
March 8, 2023 -
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Somebody Wrote My Story!
That is my fear each time I search for comparative titles (comp titles) for a book proposal or query…
February 8, 2023
