Your cart is currently empty!
Tag: books
-
Do you Want to Write For Hire? Take This Quiz to Decide
You may have wondered if Work For Hire is right for you. If you’re considering writing in the children’s book industry, I’ve created a quiz that might help. It’s based on my personal experiences as well as several colleagues I interviewed. [To give you some perspective on collective experience that I’m drawing from: I’ve written…
-
College Applications, Manuscript Submissions, and Lessons Learned
How attending a college info night gave me insight into writing what matters
-
Laptime with our little ones
This guest blog post originally appeared on The Bedtime Stories Blog on May 2, 2018 on https://medium.com/bedtime-stories-blog Turning Classic Fairytales Upside Down Keeping The Old, With New Modern Twists! We all know the classics fairytales and storybook rhymes our grandparents taught us or read to us. But do our kids know them? Unless it was made into…
-
How do I Find an Agent?
Google “how to find a literary agent for children’s books” and you’ll get 1,580,000 hits. Over one and a half million! And that’s just in the kidlit world. There are many, many theories on how to find one, just like there are many many theories on how to write the perfect picture book. Many roads will…
-
Creating an Author Platform
Quick quiz: You’re told you need to work on your “Author Platform.” You: A. Smile politely, then go back to searching online for cute cat outfits B. Nod, smile, then furiously Google “Writers’ d” hoping you’re not the last to know what the heck that is C. Think “Oh, yeah it really is time I…