In Shirley Raye & Jennifer's workbook, Write a Marketable Children’s Book, we mention the importance of checking your manuscript for spelling and grammar errors. As competitive...
Last week I wrote about the writing sin of “info dumping.” An editor told me that writers commit it when they force historical or factual...
Last week I advised writers to sign up for critique sessions with editors at conferences and related my experience meeting Mallory Loehr of Random House....
It’s often important to do research on certain places or time periods when we write fiction. But we need to use the information we gain...
Jennifer McKerley: The third book in your exciting YA series THE GOBLIN WARS was just released last month. WHEN THE STARS THREW DOWN THEIR SPEARS continues the fast paced fantasy series. Here are two reviews:
“This spectacular conclusion will satisfy fans and lead new readers into a complex world with fascinating magic and appealing characters.” —Kirkus, starred review
“Brimming with heroism,
It may seem as if E.B. White were lazy and didn’t offer Mike much help. But his letter actually reveals exactly what a writer must do to get published.
A good picture book:
I’m intrigued with the first lines of books. Some draw us in by merely stating the basic facts of a story "It was Monday morning, it was...
There is a Chinese proverb that states: "A book is like a garden carried in the pocket."
"Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own." ~William Hazlitt
"A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul." ~Franz Kafk
"Books are the bees which