Tod Olson and Leda Schubert in Conversation
Enjoy this dialogue between a picture book author (Leda Schubert, ...
Picture Books resources from our blog
Here are my three tips for writing funny picture books:
Tip #1: Give your characters ridiculous names.
You may not ...
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Why revise your manuscript? Good writers get their manuscript right the first time, don't they? Not in our ...
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Editors Harold Underdown and Eileen Robinson are the faculty hosts for our Revision Retreat. Here they share some ...
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When you write for a trade publisher, you follow that publisher’s guidelines. Usually these are fairly ...
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You’ve written the first draft of your picture book story. Congrats! Just getting the bare bones down is an ...
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So you have an idea for a children’s story. Great! Many times, our thoughts rush to PICTURE BOOK. Picture books ...
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We are lucky enough to have Denise Fleming visiting us for a third time in 2017: she'll be here in October as our ...
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Since I taught at the workshop Getting Your Middle Grade and Young Adult Novel Unstuck, I’ve been thinking about ...
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We teach a variety of revision techniques at our Revision Retreat workshop--this is one of our favorites.
One of ...
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There is magic in discovering a character’s journey – no matter the age, no matter the genre. We cast a spell on ...
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What are your words doing for you other than giving the reader information? Choosing words carefully can do more ...
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