November is "Family Stories Month". This is a wonderful opportunity to engage kids in reading and writing activities… and you never know when or how it might pay off! My mother and I co-wrote the first draft of our picture book Simeon’s Gift when I...
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Today is “I Love to Write Day”! Here are ten reasons why I love to write: 1) I can do it anywhere. All I...
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November is "National Inspirational Role Models Month," so it seemed like a good time to write about my own role models, and...
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One of my students asked a question this week about how to name a children's book and how to come up with...
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Writing a good children’s book is hard. Selling one to a publisher is even harder. Getting it bought, and read - by...
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I was recently interviewed for the esteemed blog "Cynsations," run by the very talented YA author Cynthia Leitich Smith. It was a...
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Our MFA in Writing and Literature team spent the week in Denver at the annual AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs)...
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Writing for young people is deceptively difficult. But getting published these days can be a harder task than the writing process. The...
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This topic is WAAAYYY too big for one little blog post (which is why it's a 101 as opposed to a 500). ...
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In my freelance editing practice, I read as many as 100 children’s book manuscripts a year - sometimes more. Over and over...
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