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January 26, 2017
Ten Minutes a Day: When You Don’t Have Time to Write, Part 2
About two weeks ago, I blogged about not being able to find time to work on two new projects — a novel called Iron Mountain and a nonfiction picture book about a cave. Since then, I’ve worked on these projects 10 minutes per day, Monday through Friday. Has that little amount of time been worth […]
January 25, 2017
Manuscript Tracking: How Fancy Do You Get?
Way back in the olden’ days, translation: the early 2000s, I had some spiffy manuscript tracking software. It was written by someone in my critique group and had fields for manuscript title, editor/agent, and publisher/agency. It also pinged mercilessly to remind you when you needed to follow up on something. Unfortunately, my friend decided that […]
January 24, 2017
Agents: The Great Agent Search, Who Wants What and How to Pitch
I currently have queries out to two agents. They’ve had my work for almost a week and my patience is waning. Yep, I’m a total three year-old that way. I’m pitching Puke-ology (chapter book nonfiction) and am eager to get a pitch out to another agent who represents picture books. But wait! I […]
January 23, 2017
ALA Announces 2017 Winners
Monday, January 22, 2017, the American Library Association (ALA) announced the latest winners of their much coveted awards. Without further ado, here is the list of winners and honors books with a few comments. John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children’s literature: Medal winner: The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill […]
January 22, 2017
Say Bye Bye to Clutter
One of my favorite home and how-to bloggers is Karen. She will tackle just about anything in her blog, The Art of Doing Stuff. She’s laid a patio, put in a pond, built a chicken coop and installed shelving with hidden storage. One of the things that she does every year, and challenges her readers […]
January 19, 2017
Writing Short: Should You Bother If You also Write Long?
Perhaps because I’ve been judging a series of flash fiction contests, I’ve been noodling over ideas for short stories and articles. In the last four years, my writing career has taken off and I’ve been writing a lot of books. I turned in my 11th right before Christmas. But before that I did a lot […]
January 18, 2017
Hidden Human Computers vs Hidden Figures
It is so surreal to have a book out about the same thing as a major motion picture. I just had someone e-mail me a question about one of the women in the movie. She asked: “Just saw Hidden Figures which I LOVED. Wondering what Mary Jackson could do that the white men in the […]
January 17, 2017
Lee and Low: Changes in Leadership
Seriously, my plan is not to report on only markets this week but when I see an announcement about a press or editor I love? Yep. You’re going to hear about it. If you aren’t on Twitter you may not know that yesterday Lee & Low books announced a change in leadership. In March Cheryl […]
January 16, 2017
Little Pickle Press: Changes Are Coming
Back in December, I reported on a name change for Little Pickle Press. To more clearly and completely express their goal, they were changing their name to March 4th. Little Pickle Press would continue as an imprint within March 4th. Apparently, even more changes are afoot. Sourcebooks has taken over the distribution of all Little […]
January 15, 2017
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
I’m not sure how many of you have the day off to celebrate the works and the impact of Martin Luther King, Jr. I’m spending the day with my high school senior but here’s a King quote for inspiration. Keep writing, keep working and keep creating the stories that will inspire young readers today and […]
