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• 31-Day Author Platform Challenge, Day 8: Research legit conferences

  

  Day 8 of 31 Day Author Platform Challenge: research conferences and events in your age and genre to be a resource for others that would be interested too. You can use that info anyway. Here’s how.

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  July 25, 2024

  31 day author platform challenge, contests

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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

  contests, Writer’s Platform, Writing Children’s Books, Writing events

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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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• Presenting at SCBWI Conference, April 2014

  Oh the joys of being part of a tribe. I had a great time presenting “Marketing the @#&! out of Yourself with Twitter” at the Northern CA SCBWI Spring Spirit conference (#SpSp14) on April 5, 2014, held in the Sacramento area. I was surrounded by greatness and the common love of writing children’s books. Being…

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  April 6, 2014

  Writing Children’s Books

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