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Picture Book 3
7 Children’s Picture Book Manuscripts in 7 Days I’m taking the 7 in 7 picture book challenge. Report on 7 in 7 for the first week of May, 2009 May 7 May 6 Note: This is a note of general frustration with writing 7 picture books in 7 days. I want to dig in and […]
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Picture Book 2
7 Children’s Picture Book Manuscripts in 7 Days I’m taking the 7 in 7 picture book challenge. Report on 7 in 7 for the first week of May, 2009 May 7 May 6 May 5 May 4: Delaware and Miriam. OK. This is getting hard! Picture books are short, yes, but that doesn’t mean they […]
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Picture book 1
7 Children’s Picture Book Manuscripts in 7 Days I’m taking the 7 in 7 picture book challenge. Report on 7 in 7 for the first week of May, 2009 May 1: Violet Ivy’s Button Eyes. 1128 words. May 2: ABC book. OK, so it’s one I had half-way started before and abandoned because I had […]
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7 in 7
Have you decided to join the National Picture Book Writing Week? It started today and you need to write a picture book (with a beginning, middle and end) each day. Of course, if you write seven, you’ll need to revise seven! So, come back the next week and read through my series, 30 Days to […]
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Top 10 Picture Book Topics to Avoid
Stiff Competition for These Picture Book Topics Dial editor, Liz Waniewski (ONE–es-key) spoke at the Arkansas SCBWI 2007 conference. For a couple months before the conference, she kept track of her slush pile picture book submissions by category. This resulted in my 2007 posting 12 Picture Book Topics to Avoid, one of the more popular […]
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Effective Picture Book Subtitles
Do picture books need subtitles? Well, no, not strictly. Just like any other book, a subtitle is a chance to tell the prospective reader something more about the topic of the book.