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Page Street Publishing: New editor

Are you familiar with Page Street Publishing?  If not, you probably should be.  They are listed as a “fast-growing, independent publisher of 2016” by Publisher’s Weekly.  With a 70 title backlist, Page Street is a general lifestyle publisher with books in health, parenting, crafts, popular science and more.  Many of the books are cookbooks but […]

Children’s Book Landmarks

Yesterday, I saw a School Library Journal post on children’s book landmarks being named to celebrate Children’s Book Week.  I hadn’t even thought of that when I wrote yesterday’s post but that’s something else you could do — visit a children’s book landmark. Two of the “new” landmarks that will be named next week include […]

Children’s Book Week

  Children’s Book Week this year is from May 1–7.  Yep.  It starts on Monday.  It snuck up on me! In celebration of this week, Every Child a Reader encourages authors and illustrators to participate in events in their area. If you are only now finding out about it, I don’t know how possible that […]

“What is your favorite book?”

“What is your favorite book?”   I shouldn’t be surprised when young readers ask me that, because teachers and other adults ask them the same question. But that’s a tough one for me. I probably had 10 or 20 “favorite books.” I’m not very good about picking out a favorite food or favorite color either. […]

Fact vs Fiction When You’re Making Things Up

Just how fictitious is too fictitious?  That’s the question that I’ve been asking myself as I research a new picture book.  It isn’t fantasy in the unicorns and elves sense.  There is no magic.  But there are animals doing things that animals simply do not do. Without giving it all away, I have animal and […]

Re-entering Your Story: Picture book version

Ideally, you start a story and you finish it.  You aren’t interrupted.  The words flow from beginning to end.  You don’t need a break.  Everything comes together flawlessly. Nevermind that we all have lives, families, and friends. Forget about the fact that a paying deadline may force you to set aside your current manuscript so […]

ISO Ideas

Yesterday I mentioned how inspirational I found the Library of Congress Magazine.  Apparently I’m not the only one who finds inspiration in this library’s amazing collection.  Check out this post from Jann Alexander in which she discusses the inspiration she finds in the library’s print and photography collections. If you’ve never spent any time poking […]

The Library of Congress: Research and Idea Generation

I’ve just become aware of two amazing resources at the Library of Congress.  Or at least I’ve become newly acquainted. The first is a series of primary source sets and the second a especially helpful publication for idea generation, or at least that’s how it works for me. As many of you probably know, finding primary […]

The agent search continues

Now that I’ve turned in the Dakota Access Pipeline book, I’m getting ready to send another batch of queries to agents. Not that I want this to sound like I’ve queried 100s of them and been rejected all around.  I think that so far I’ve sent out about 5 queries so I am still in […]

Poetry Terms: A Few Key Words You Need to Know

April is National Poetry Month.  Whether you are a serious poet or just someone who dabbles like I occassionally do, this Writer’s Digest post includes thirty-seven key terms that will help you know what everyone else is talking about. Of course, if you are a serious poet, you probably know most of them. Rhyme, rhythm, […]