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The Editorial Dance: Finding the Right Editor
I talked with an editor earlier this week about my new novel, The Blue Marbles, a sff YA and found that editorial input comes in two forms–and these are so important to finding the right editor for your story. Positioning in the Market Place The first thing we talked about was our visions for the…
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format
Does Format change a story? Format. Yes, it makes a difference. How you present information or how you present a story make a difference to the text. For example, I’ve been wanting to write
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Multiple pov
3 Tips for Using Mulitple Point of View Characters Limit the number of POV characters. A general caution is to limit the number of POV characters so the reader can be emotionally invested in those few. Zuckerman, in How to Write the Blockbuster Novel, recommends no more than five main characters. Usually, one of the…
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Picture Book 4
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. Historical Fiction. OK, here comes the rationalization for why I don’t have a good draft done. A couple years ago, a friend…
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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 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…