Writing a good children’s book is hard. Selling one to a publisher is even harder. Getting it bought, and read - by librarians, booksellers, and most of all, kids - is the hardest of all. The best children’s book authors are masters of economy and...
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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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Question: How can you turn one book into multiple sources of income, and continue to promote the original book at the same...
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So, you've written a children's book and you're ready to submit it to an agent and/or a publisher. The following are...
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Some picture books are narrative all the way through with no dialogue, and some are only dialogue with no other narrative, as...
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Basic plot structure for a picture book is the same as for any other kind of dramatic structure, be it a novel,...
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Most publishing houses make acquisitions decisions by committee. Having been a fly on the wall at a lot of those meetings, as...
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Like many children’s book authors who are also parents, I get a lot of ideas from my own kids. Several years ago,...
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It’s been said that we all run at least two businesses – the business we’re in, and the business of marketing the...
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