Tag: Dos and Don’ts

• Presentation Skills for Introverts: 5 Easy Do’s and 5 Don’ts…plus 6 Bonus Extras

  

  Public Speaking Tips for Introverts (AKA Most Authors): 8 easy Do’s and Don’ts for the timid, shy, or panicked

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  November 21, 2019

  Writing Children’s Books

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• Author Platform: Maximizing Social Media

  

  Social media is one of the main ways you create your author brand, or platform. Since most of your readers will never meet you in person, it’s how most of your readers get to know you. This post is gonna look at ways to maximize social media so you can give yourself the best author…

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  March 17, 2016

  Writer’s Platform, Writing Children’s Books

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• Pay to Enter a Writing Contest?

  

  Why would you–or should you–ever pay to enter a writing contest? Does it sully the award? Or does the entry fee give credibility to the award? For the most part, paying to enter an award is a red flag warning DO NOT ENTER THIS CONTEST!

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  October 8, 2015

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• Revision: Taking A Step Back

    Have you ever been asked to read a friend’s manuscript, and, well, their work was borderline horrible? But that friend is so clueless that he/she thinks it’s PERFECT and is honestly thinks a movie deal will be offered any day now? Well I’ve been that friend. My first drafts were horrible. In fact, I…

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  September 3, 2015

  Writing Children’s Books

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• 8 Writing Tips in 8 Minutes: Bitsy’s tips for the newbie picture book writer

  Are you one of the over 200 peeps headed to the SCBWI CA North/Central 2015 Spring Spirit writer’s conference? (wow, that was a mouthful) Are you looking for some beginner’s tip? Take a look here…”8 Writers Tips for Beginner Picture Book Writers” (uh,yeah, that was a mouthful too…don’t that that sway you on my mad…

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  April 30, 2015

  Writing Children’s Books

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• Current Status of Children’s Book Market, according to SCBWI NY 2015

  Ah, so much went on at the international conference that I’m still basking in the fruitfulness. I’m pretty sure that’s not an expression, but you know what I mean. I’ve tweeted out much of the greatness. I’ve culled some more juicy tidbits to share, in random order: 1. Webinars are popular and great for those…

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  February 21, 2015

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