Small Reads for Brighters Days
On Saturday, the 17th, I spent the day in Red Wing, MN, at the Anderson Center for the Minnesota Children’s Book Festival. Lisa Bullard and I both manned the So You Want to Be an Author tent. We spent the buggy afternoon talking with adults who want to write for kids and also writing poems […]
First of all, writer friends, I have a guest post up at Angie Karcher’s RhyPiBoMo series. I shared an excerpt from the book Lisa Bullard and I wrote together, Rhyming Picture Books: The Write Way. Take a peek if you’re interested! And teacher friends, welcome to today’s tip in my month-long Poetry Tips for Teachers […]
Today is the second and last day you can download Getting Published: How to Access Editors for free! This Kindle ebook is by Lisa Bullard and me, and it’s part of our Children’s Writer Insider Guide series. It covers a couple of basic tips as well as some more unusual methods of catching an editor’s […]
Today I’m sending a huge happy book birthday to my writer friend and business partner Lisa Bullard, whose first novel comes out today! I just read Turn Left at the Cow in its official version–the last time I read it, it was being submitted to various publishers. It’s even better the second time around! Lisa’s […]
Last week, I posted about the new ebook from Lisa Bullard and me, Picture Books the Write Way. I promised to share a sample brief chapter, and the first request that came in was for this one. Lisa is a master at point of view. In our client critiques, she always zeroes in on whether […]
So you may know that writer Lisa Bullard and I run a critique and coaching business for kids’ writers called Mentors for Rent. We critique a fair number of picture books, and we have a new Kindle e-book addressing the 10 most common problems we see in picture book manuscripts. Here are the issues we […]
My Writing Book of the Day: How to Query an Agent or Editor?(Kindle ebook), by Lisa Bullard and Laura Purdie Salas. Quick quote about writing the hook portion of your query letter: “What I discovered is that you cannot possibly describe an entire book in that amount of time. So don’t even try. Figure out […]
Lisa Bullard and I, as Mentors for Rent, led the Redbery?Writers’ Intensive in Wisconsin recently. From Tuesday dinner through Thursday lunch, we met individually with the attending?writers. We got to meet with each writer for four separate consultations, and they had the opportunity for a Skype critique with editor Aaron Frisch of Creative Editions. The […]
One of the ways I keep afloat as a writer is by writing work-for-hire books for the educational market. This is a market I would not have known existed if I hadn’t heard two editors speak about it at an SCBWI conference back in 1999. Since then, I’ve written more than 100 books for this […]
I’m excited to announce the first e-book I’ve helped create! Lisa Bullard and I, aka Mentors for Rent, have written a Kindle e-book called How to Query an Agent or Editor. If you’ve put off submitting your work because you just can’t seem to get your cover letter right, then this is the e-book for […]
