I’m proud to pull back the curtain today to reveal my website and blog’s new look. If you’ve visited my site before, you may have to click on the refresher icon at the top of your browser so that page will reload to reveal the new look. What you’ll find is a pretty new design, […]
Agent Sara Sciuto Talks Picture Book Dummies
One of the things I enjoy about my writers advice website DearEditor.com is bringing in brilliant publishing colleagues to answer reader questions as “Guest Editor.” Today’s guest editor is Sara Sciuto, an agent with Full Circle Literary. Sara represents children’s fiction (picture books, middle grade, and YA) and select adult nonfiction. A graduate of the […]
OnText Gives DearEditor.com the Thumbs Up
Ghostwriter Maryan Pelland posted a fab feature about my writers advice website DearEditor.com on her blog OnText. The feature, “Writing Children’s or Young Reader Books? Great Source of Publishing Help,” praised me as “a wealth of information for writers, authors, and ghostwriters to ask questions about the craft of writing or about the very confusing […]
Illustrator Stacy Innerst on the Risks of Illustration Notes
Having worked with picture book illustrators for many years now, I’ve come to respect the daylights out of their creative process. Each one reaches the end product—a beautiful picture book—differently, but they all start from the same first moment: an emotional and visual reaction while reading the text for the very first time. That’s where […]
Letters to Santa: My first picture book!
My first picture book has published! LETTERS TO SANTA celebrates the 100th anniversary of the USPS “Letters to Santa” program. I spotted the book on display at my post office yesterday! Letters to Santa is a great program, with USPS working with charities, companies, and individual citizens across the country in various ways to field […]
When to Put “And” in front of “Then”
I’m thrilled to bring editor extraordinaire Robin Cruise to DearEditor.com today as my Guest Editor. Robin gave me my first job in publishing and her creativity, industry wisdom, and business acumen have inspired me ever since. She’s spent her career behind the scenes as managing editor, deputy publisher, and then publisher, with both trade publishers […]
Foreign Rights Expert Taryn Fagerness Talks Location, Location, Location!
A lot of writers wonder if U.S. readers will go for a novel set in an international location. A DearEditor.com reader asked me about that very issue. So I brought in brilliant foreign rights expert Taryn Fagerness to answer it on DearEditor.com today. Taryn represents foreign rights on behalf of North American literary agents. Before […]
My 3 New Books Have Launched!
My three books for Rubicon’s Remix struggling readers series have launched! Brave New World: Cyber World, Brave New World: Meltdown, and Brave New World: Robotic World. I loved having the chance to write for a new audience. REMIX is a series of high interest/low vocabulary non-fiction readers geared toward students in grades 7 to 8 who […]
Win a Free Copy of Writing Young Adult Fiction For Dummies
“Revision can be daunting. . . . Why not give your brain a break by breaking your task into focused chunks? With this approach, you’d pick a writing element, say plot, and ignore everything but that. Working Big Picture chunks to small detail chunks rather than page by page, you’d focus not on revising the […]
Coverage of My SCBWI conference Market Trends Keynote
This year I had the honor of compiling the “2012 SCBWI Market Survey: Publishers of Books For Young Readers” report for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. I followed up with a keynote speech at the recent SCBWI Summer Conference about what I learned from her survey – giving attendees the current market […]
Putting the Marketplace Under a Microscope
I just had the honor of presenting the keynote speech “An Up to the Minute Survey of Market Needs and Trends” to the 1,200 children’s books writers at the amazing Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators International Conference today. That’s me in the photo there, on one of the two big screens behind the […]
A Virtual Visit to Stanford
Thanks to the Internet, I got to talk books and writing with a class of Stanford writing students today during an online chat session. The class uses my Writing Young Adult Fiction For Dummies as their text. I’m truly honored that schools continue to adopt my book for their classes. A big wave and shout-out […]
Passion, Publishing, and People
“The book publishing industry is populated by intelligent, hard-working people, many of whom are delighted to have the opportunity to turn their passion – the printed word – into a paying job.” — Digital Book World I just came across Digital Book World’s Feb 7, 2012, blog post “Best Publishing Companies to Work For.” I […]
Summer Is Shaping Up
As the San Diego weather vacillates between hot-enough-for-the-beach and dark-and-stormy, I’m putting my summer together. Workwise, it’ll be a fun one, with the SCBWI 2012 Summer Conference in L.A. Aug 3-6. I’ll present a breakout session on writing dialogue, an intensive on revising your MG/YA novel, an intensive on creating youthful narrative sensibility, and the […]
THIS is how you do it!
Want to get people talking books and celebrating reading? Take a hit song, parody it brilliantly, then watch it become a viral video sensation. Listen carefully, because there are so many great lines. Well done, ladies!
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