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November 5, 2015
Markets: Devozine
Earlier this week, I wrote about the themelists for the Fun for Kidz magazine group. Another themed magazine is Devozine, published by the Upper Room. The magazine is published by-monthly with one theme/week. There are only two 2016 themes left — the deadlines for the others have passed. September/October 2016 (Deadline: 11/28/2015) Living in Fear […]
November 4, 2015
Agents: How Many is Too Many?
I’ve now gone past researching agents to actually querying. As I send out letters, I need to consider how many I want out at any given time. Three? Five? Before I sent out my first letter, I decided on three. Three seemed like a safe number to have out at any one time. I sent […]
November 3, 2015
Why can’t I … Why Someone Else Can Break This Writing Rule, But You Can’t
There are a lot of rules when it comes to writing for children. I’m always amazed at how many of them involve Do Not. Do Not write picture books about inanimate characters. Do Not create picture books with talking animal characters. Do Not write rhyming picture books. Do Not switch point of view characters. Do […]
November 2, 2015
Interior Dialogue
“What does your character think about what just happened? What does he feel?” This is one of those questions that I hate getting from a critique partner. I hate it because 99% of the time I know the answer and I think the information is in the story but my reader just doesn’t get it. […]
November 1, 2015
Markets: Fun for Kids
I’ve yet to break into the Fun for Kids magazine group but there is always hope especially now that the 2016 themes are listed on their site. If you aren’t familiar with this magazine group there are three magazines — Hopscotch for girls, Boys’ Quest for boys, and activity-driven Fun for Kids. This publisher only wants […]
October 29, 2015
Brainstorming via mem
I love looking at the various mems my friends post on Facebook. Okay, not the political ones so much but the funny ones, the historic ones, and the “what would you…” variety. They are wonderful opportunities to brainstorm story ideas. What magical power do you posess? What superpower? What supernatural ability? Those are all great opportunities […]
October 28, 2015
I’m a Real Boy . . . I Mean Writer
Last week we had parent teacher conferences. I’d love to say that I behave myself but occasionally I get bored. This normally happens when a teacher is droning on about the importance of writing. Honey, you’re preaching to the choir. I get it. This particular teacher had been discussing the importance of the research paper […]
October 27, 2015
Mind the details
One of the blogs that I like to read is about selling your work to Woman’s World magazine. Recently I read a post about how the details in a specific story convinced her that the writer knew what she was talking about in terms of running a flower shop that supplies bouquets and the like […]
October 26, 2015
Researching Publishers
Last week I saw a market report on a new-to-me publisher. The genres that they described are those I love but I didn’t know a single thing about this publisher. Honestly, I wasn’t even sure if they were a children’s publisher. I Googled their name and took some time poking around their site and I’m […]
October 25, 2015
Picture Book Idea Month
While I do not NaNoWriMo, there is another November challenge that I participate in every year — Picture Book Idea Month or PiBoIdMo. The goal for PiBoIdMo is to come up with 30 picture book ideas throughout the month of November. Ideally, you come up with one a day. Ideally. I don’t think that I’ve […]
