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Tag: children

  • Entertaining Parents

    Entertaining Parents

    While I am holding you captive.. how does a writer, decades past their first childhood, but at least five years from entering those golden years of our second childhood, entertain contemporary children and the adults who read to them?

  • Writing for Children: is there Joy?

    Writing for Children: is there Joy?

    The thing that held me back in my writing kids’ books turned out to be all of the rules.  The only rule I could go all in with was that if you word could not be found in a middle grade dictionary it should not be used in a story, book or article.

  • Children’s Literary Agents Roundup: How to Write for Young Audiences

    Join us for our final topic chat about writing for Children & YA Readers and mark your Calendar for Sunday’s Guest Chat. Children’s Literary Agents Roundup: How to Write for Young Audiences Four agents who represent children’s literature, took time out of their busy day to share their insight and wisdom on platform, writing picture…

  • You’ve Written a Children’s Book – Now What?

      So, You’ve Written a Children’s Book…Now What? Chronicle Books posted on Sunday’s Topic. We receive about a thousand unsolicited children’s manuscripts every month, like the ones in the mail bins below. Every one of them is read by a children’s editor here, and I’m here to offer you some tips on how to make your manuscript…

  • 10 Tips For Creating Your First Children’s Picture Book

    Wednesday’s Topic continues our April Theme Children/YA Writing Month 10 Tips For Creating Your First Children’s Picture Book   A children’s picture book may seem simple, but creating a brilliant one is no easy task. How do you make yours smart, engaging, and fun — rather than clichéd, saccharine, and didactic? “A picture book is…