Showcase: The Book Deal
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Showcase: Working with Your Agent
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The Value of Differentiating Between Writing and Publishing
Constantin Stanislovski once said, “Love the art in yourself, and not yourself in the art.” He was talking about theater, of course, but the same can be said of any art form. When applied to novelists, I think the difference comes down to writing vs. publishing, because writing and publishing...
LIVE PANEL: Writing Picture Books
This post will go live 5 minutes before the session begins. To ask a question, leave a comment below! The panel will start 5 minutes late to accommodate some technical difficulties! Andrea J Loney’s picture book Bunnybear, (Albert Whitman & Company, January 2017) is about a bear who believes in...
What the Heck are Chapter Books?
“So, what do you write?” For writers at kidlit workshops, conferences and other events, this is the number one ice-breaker (not that writers need ice-breakers, of course, we’re all charmingly extroverted). In general, for both fiction and non-fiction, I’ve only ever heard three common responses: “I write picture books,” “I...
On Genre-Bending
The names are found on the shelves in our bookstores: Science fiction. Fantasy. Mystery. Horror. Romance. Broad, familiar indicators, meant to communicate to the reader what it is that they are about to pick up. They know that if they choose a horror book, it will likely try to frighten...
LIVE Q&A: Making the Leap from Self-Published to Traditional
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Whatever Happened to New Adult?
If you've been around kidlit for a while — "a while," in this case, need only be five or six years — you'll remember the quick and enthusiastic rise of New Adult fiction. Considering the energy that buoyed conversations at the time, its current obscurity is remarkable and a little...
LIVE Q&A: Social Media, Branding and Marketing
This post will go live 5 minutes before the session begins. To participate in the Q&A, post your questions below! Jess Keating is the author of the acclaimed middle grade trilogy My Life is A Zoo (Sourcebooks 2014), which earned two starred reviews, as well the playful nonfiction picture book...
Staying Sane in an Insane Industry
Some years ago, I was asked to give a talk about what I laughably call ‘the writing process’ to a group of psychotherapists and psychiatrists at a Scottish university. This was a rather unusual request; my normal audience tends to be either in diapers or recently graduated to kindergarten, so...
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