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February 7, 2018
Fiction or Nonficiton: Which Is More Work?
Last night, I met with my critique group. Two of us normally write nonfiction but this time we both had fiction manuscripts. I had to laugh because the other author kept commenting on how much work fiction was to write. The reason that this struck me as so funny was that I’ve heard other writers argue about […]
February 6, 2018
The Most Important Thing for a Writer’s Career
I don’t remember where I saw this on Tuesday. I read blogs while I’m on the treadmill. But somewhere on the great web, someone made the comment that the most important thing an author can do to further their career is develop their online presence in a way to help sell their books. Now, I’m […]
February 5, 2018
Love of Reading Month
February is Love of Reading Month. I’ve tried to discover who launched this but to no avail. A Google search uncovered numerous schools doing literacy pushes through February. Isn’t this a great idea? What are you reading? I have two books underway: Waking Up White by Debby Irving. It is a memoir about how a privileged […]
February 4, 2018
The Webinar: One Way to Sell Your Work
A webinar is a great way to sell your work. If you’ve never participated in one of these events, a speaker or speakers give a presentation and often take questions from participants. They can either take the questions live or solicit them ahead of time. Often webinars are about how to do something. They can […]
February 1, 2018
5 Minutes a Day: Start with Knowledge
If you’ve accepted that you can accomplish amazing things writing for five minutes a day, good for you! That’s a big part of the process. You won’t try if you don’t think you can succeed. But you also have to start with a plan. And the first step in that plan? Knowledge. I bet you expected […]
January 31, 2018
Kwame Alexander to Head New Imprint
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt just announced plans to launch a new imprint – Versify. The first list will come out in Spring 2019. The list will be “curated” by poet educator Kwame Alexander. Alexander won the Newbery in 2015 with The Crossover, a novel in verse about twins Josh and Jordan. With a dad who is a […]
January 30, 2018
Author’s Copies!
Happy Birthday to me! Guess what arrived on my birthday? Author’s copies. This was probably one of the hardest books to research. I landed the job not long after President Trump won the election. A Google search on “electoral college” returned tons of links but I knew that most of the material would be unusable. […]
January 29, 2018
Draft by Draft: Working Towards a Solid Picture Book Manuscript
When I draft a picture book, I generally go through four drafts before I have a solid manuscript. And by solid I mean ready to show people not ready to publish. In draft 1, I get the story down. This is just to lay out my concept and get the pacing down and achieve the right […]
January 28, 2018
Using a Decision Matrix to Select an Agent
This weekend, I had to select which of four agents to have critique my manuscript at an upcoming event. I started by Googling each of their names. By the time I had read a bit about each, I couldn’t remember which had looked like a great match. Or had it been two? And one didn’t […]
January 25, 2018
5 Minutes a Day: First You Have to Believe
In September 2017, one of my fellow Muffin bloggers challenged everyone who reads the blog to state a big, hairy, audacious goal. I decided that I wanted to finish a draft of my new chapter book. If I could just squeeze in 5 Minutes a Day. The problem was that shortly after decided this I […]
