The Pitch Wars Experience
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LIVE Q&A: The Picture Book Author-Editor Relationship
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LIVE Panel: Marketing Your Book
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LIVE Workshop: The ABCs of Strong Queries
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Second Book Struggles
Second Book Syndrome (secundus liber syndromos): an overwhelming sense of inadequacy, creative depletion and doubt at one’s life choice to become an author, often marked by physical signs, such as staring at blank Word documents, talking to self, Netflix binging, obsessive baking, and other distracting behaviors. Symptoms may vary writer...
LIVE Q&A: Traditional vs Non-Traditional Publishing
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Losing Your Agent Isn’t the End of the Road
Like most of the authors I know, I’ve had more than one agent in my career. I’ve technically had three, though one lasted only a couple months and we never went on submission together. Still, I’ve been through the agent wringer, and want to share my story with the hopes...
Roundtable: Advances and Writer Income
We invited a group of published kidlit authors to anonymously share some details about their book deals, advances, and general writing income. Fourteen authors chose to participate. These authors represent a range of experiences, from the indie press to the Big Five, recent deals to a decade or more in...
How to Choose an Agent
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KEYNOTE: Working as a Full-Time Author
I’ve been making picture books full-time for almost nine years now. There have been many ups and downs. Some years have been fantastic, and others have been scary and awful. Sorry! That’s probably not what you want to hear. Okay, let me start again … Here’s what I know about...
