Roy Miller's Blog, page 110

How to write a wonderful picture book

by WW Office Source link From Allan Ahlberg to Dr Seuss, picture books matter because they create the foundations of a child’s reading life – and you never know what a difference your own book could make. Once upon a bicycle, so they say, a … Continue reading →

Carpenter’s Bluff by James Sanders

by Marta Cheng Source link Our adult lives are largely influenced by the uncharted events of our youth and nowhere is this more evident than in Carpenter’s Bluff, James Sanders’ moving literary tale of youthful indiscretions and dark secrets. Henry “Hank” Anawatty is a young attorney with problems in his life, the most pressing beings

Flog a BookBubber 112: Clara Benson

by Ray Rhamey Source link Writers, send your prologue/first chapter to FtQ for a “flogging” critique. Email as an attachment. Many of the folks who utilize BookBub are self-published, and because we hear over and over the need for self-published authors to have their work edited, it’s educational to take a hard look at theirs

Should You Cold Pitch More Than One Person In a Company?

by Tolu Ajiboye Source link You’ve found a company that you want to work for, pitched someone in the marketing department, followed up at least three times and all you hear is crickets. What do you do next? Do you just take it as a sign that it wasn’t meant to be – and moves

The Essential Ingredient Of Hard Choices

by terribleminds Source link I knew a guy named Gil who faced an incredibly difficult decision: his wife and his teenage daughter were both in the hospital at the same time with failing kidneys, the wife from cancer, the daughter from the trauma of a car accident. Grim coincidence, indeed. Both required a kidney transplant,s

Exciting news: Michael Ian Black and I are teaming up for I’M WORRIED, a sequel to I’M BORED and I’M SAD!

by Debbie Ridpath Ohi Source link I’ve been dying to make this public and I finally can: I am THRILLED to announce that I will be illustrating a new picture book by author / comedian / actor Michael Ian Black called I’M WORRIED. The story features the Potato, Little Girl and Flamingo from the previouss

How to Believe You Are Good Enough

by Bryan Hutchinson Source link Do you ever feel like you don’t measure up? When you do something extremely well, better than you ever thought you could, do you tend to believe it was just a fluke? You’re good enough! Are you sensitive to slights and insults from others when you achieve milestones? Do otherss

Rattle magazine Calls for Poetry Submissions by Athletic Poets – Pays $100/poem

by Brian Scott Source link Rattle magazine (est. 1994) is publishing a special Summer 2018 tribute issue showcasing the literary works of poets who are athletes or who otherwise define themselves as “athletic.”… ***

Giveaway: “Best Cookbook in the World,” The Artful Baker

by diannejacob Source link Yes, The Best Cookbook in the World is a real award for The Artful Baker: Extraordinary Desserts From an Obsessive Home Baker. And you can win a copy of this $50 book by leaving a comment below. Cenk Sonmezsoy, a Turk who started his Cafe Fernando food blog in 2006, won Bests

Work on Something Dangerous

by JW Source link You’ve got to work on something dangerous. You have to work on something that makes you uncertain. Something that makes you doubt yourself. You shouldn’t feel safe. You should feel, “I don’t know if I can write this.” That’s what I mean by dangerous, and I think that’s a good things