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April 1, 2020
3 Reasons You Should Tune into Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems
The Kennedy Center and Mo Willems have created a series of YouTube videos to inspire young book lovers. Check out the YouTube channel Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems. I’ve only watched the first one (see above) so far, and it was a lot of fun. Willems starts out by encouraging his young viewers in joining […]
March 31, 2020
Four Reasons You Want to Be a Member of SCBWI
Do you write or illustrate for children? Then you really should belong to the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). Here are four reasons why. They are here to support industry professionals. Take advantage of their events and you will learn a lot about the industry. Sure you can learn some of it […]
March 30, 2020
Three Reasons I’m Glad Not to Have to Pick My Cover Art
More often than not, writers do not have to pick their own cover art if they traditionally publish. Some people may not be comfortable with this but I don’t mind. Why? Let me tell you. The Cover Has to Make an Accurate First Impression. The first thing that most people notice about your book is […]
March 29, 2020
Three More Reasons to Sign Up for Middle Grade Magic
Way back in February I wrote about 3 Reasons to sign up for this event. They were 1) great sessions, 2) great speakers and 3) the cost which is FREE. Now we have three more reasons to sign up – Life Today. Given the requirements to social distancing, travel is all but impossible which is […]
March 26, 2020
Jump Start Your Writing in April: The Poem a Day Challenge
Jump start your writing starting April 1st with Robert Lee Brewer’s PAD – the poem a day challenge. I like to take part for several reasons. Something New. I don’t know about you but I like to try new things. Poetry is something I don’t write often which makes poetry writing in-and-of itself fairly unfamiliar […]
March 25, 2020
The Three Levels of Writing
If this is going to be the new normal for a while, I’m going to have to find a way to make it work. The boy is attending his college classes from home. My husband is now my office mate which includes daily 2 pm conference calls which, I have to be honest, seem really […]
March 24, 2020
Book Lovers Marooned
Book videos. Streamed readings. How-to draw and more. The children’s book community is coming out with some pretty amazing things to reach out to young readers who are missing school and no doubt more than a little worried. I’m going to be writing a series of posts on my Facebook author page – “Dear Book […]
March 23, 2020
3 Things to Know about Querying/Submitting
I just met a deadline Friday and I’d been noodling over sending my work to several agents. But is now a good time? That’s something I ask myself on a regular basis but what about now when offices are closing and people are working from home. So I did some looking online. Here is what […]
March 22, 2020
4 Things to Help You Weather Working from Home
Last week I had a deadline. My son was on Spring Break. My husband took the week off. And then coronavirus. No, none of us are sick but we have been taking social isolation seriously. Putting in a fifty hour work week while sharing my office with an extrovert was not ideal but it was […]
March 19, 2020
The Most Important Thing to Do for Yourself Right Now
It doesn’t matter if you normally work from home or if you are off your day job for the duration. We are living in stressful times right now and there is something you need to do for yourself. Find something meditative to help ease your stress. No, seriously. I mean it. Get off Facebook. Put […]
