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Introduced first in 2007, authors debuting children’s books have formed a cooperative effort to market their novels. Last year, I featured many of the stories of how the 2k8 Novels Were Revised. This is part of the ongoing stories from the Class of 2k9 authors and how they went about revising their novels. by Deborah [...]
In Search of Humor: The Classic Running Gag What I’m currently reading: Why am I reading this book? I’m not funny. Ask my kids, I lack any sense of humor. But kids love humor, gags, slapstick, jokes, puns, funny things happening in a story or a novel. I’m near the end of my WIP novel [...]
Revision Notes will be on Spring Break for the next two weeks, with maybe one or two posts in there. In this post, I’m just catching up on some personal things. Successful Lesson Plans for Picture Books Lesson Plans for Darcy Pattison’s picture books are available as a free pdf download. Included are over 100 [...]
Meet Editor and Agent at Arkansas Conference The Arkansas SCBWI Spring Conference schedule is now online! When: May 15-16, 2009 Where: Conway, AR Speakers include: Anastasia Suen, author, teacher Jennifer (Jaeger) Rofe, literary agent, Andrea Brown Literary Interview at KidLit Central news Cynsations interview Martha Mihalick, editor, Greenwillow Books/Harpercollins Greenwillow books on Facebook Christy’s Creative [...]
Strong Titles Sell Novels and Books I’ve been thinking a lot about titles for novels, or really any book, trying to give them stronger hooks. Titles are essentially sales tools: for you to sell to the publisher and for the publisher to sell to the public. After you have several books out and start to [...]
Craft Challenges for the Writing Life Whatever you write – novels, poetry, picture books, nonfiction – it’s important to keep your craft growing and improving. I take this seriously and find ways to challenge myself. One way has been the Friday Ideas group, which has kept me searching for viable picture book ideas. This year, [...]
Kindle 2 Great for Novels, But Still Needs Improvement Have you been keeping up with the reviews of the Kindle 2, Amazon’s ebook reader? Here are a couple of the most interesting comments I’ve seen:
Take Time to Revise Jim Danielson, who attended last weekend’s Illinois retreat, has also posted a picture of a shrunken manuscript. Here are other links for the Shrunken Manuscript technique: Instructions for the Shrunken Manuscript Technique Shrunken manuscript v. Spreadsheet plotting Intensive feedback, like you get in a weekend retreat, can be overwhelming and after [...]
What Book Publicity Tools Work Best for You? Today is a question about book publicity: What works? In your experience, what has helped the most?
What Do Writers Do All Day? I’m just back from Illinois where last weekend, I taught a Novel Revision retreat to a fantastic group of writers. One of the humorous things that happened: One writer had a chapter in which a character wrote about a condominium, but the character couldn’t spell, so wrote, “. . [...]
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