Guest Post: Linda Joy Singlton on Jumping Age Markets: How a Multi-Published Author Became a Debut Author

By Linda Joy Singleton
for Cynthia Leitich Smith's Cynsations

Blame it on the SCBWI (the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators).

When I joined SCBWI over two decades ago, I’d already sold a middle-grade and was interested in writing young adult books, too. Yet most of my writer friends wrote picture books.

Whenever I went to SCBWI conferences, I attended many presentations by talented picture book authors and illustrators. I listened to so many picture book talks that I joked I co...