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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Children's Books, 3rd Edition (Complete Idiot's Guide to)
This book provides you
with a step by step guide on how to publish children's books. It's a valuable
resource for the children's writer, and gives some great ideas on how to ready
your manuscript for publication.
Each section moves you seamlessly along the path to
publication and beyond with a plethora of examples, links and helpful guidance.
It helps you to understand the reason it takes so long to get your acceptance or
rejection and why many times a rejection can't be personalized.
Here is the
comprehensive guide to writing, publishing, and selling for the ever-expanding
and always exciting children’s market—now in a new and updated third edition.
• Includes new chapters on self-publishing and on "how to choose a how-to", plus
revision and updates throughout
• Offers practical advice on getting started--and on dealing with out-of-print
books
• Covers picture books, chapter books, nonfiction, middle-grade and young
novels, and common formats and genres
• Reveals what happens inside a children's publishing company, and provides
guidance in working with an editor
• Sample cover and query letters, manuscript format, glossary, and recommended
resources in an extensive appendix
• Plus information on agents, contracts, copyright, marketing, and more
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Children's Books, 3rd Edition
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The Business of Writing for Children: An Award-Winning Author's Tips on Writing and Publishing Children's Books, or How to Write, Publish, and Promote a Book for Kids
Excerpted from The Business of Writing for
Children: by Aaron Shepard.
Let me begin with a word of caution. If you're thinking
of taking up children's writing as a lark or as an easy way to make money,
my advice is: Forget it.
True, there are always those beginning writers who will
whip out a children's story, sell it to a publisher on the first try, and
wind up with a successful book. But for most of us, entering the
profession takes years of practice, self-education, and not a little
frustration. And there's more of that after we're published.
But if you're serious about writing for children, this
book should significantly speed and simplify your professional
development. Though not at all meant to be comprehensive, it lays out the
basics, points you toward additional resources, and most importantly,
provides tips and strategies not commonly found elsewhere. Along with
that, it offers detailed looks at some of my own specialties and gives
notice of changes being brought by new technologies.
The material comes from several sources. Most of the
Introduction, Part 1, and the Appendix is based on handouts created for my
former classes and workshops on writing for children. Part 2 consists of
articles first written for the SCBWI Bulletin and Once Upon A
Time. All materials have been updated as needed.
Reflecting my own expertise, the focus here is on
writing picture book stories and selling them to major publishers. Much of
the information, though, will apply to other areas of children's writing
as well.
I hope this guide will help in your professional and/or
personal growth. Good luck, and don't forget to have fun!
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Story Wizard - Creative Writing Software for Kids
The best way of
describing a product honestly is to let a professional software reviewer
give you their opinion. The following review appeared in Computer Shopper,
and was awarded the "Best Budget Buy Award" in September 2005. "Reading is
fun but writing is even more fun because you can invent everything!"
Story Wizard
provides a stimulating environment in which to write stories, including a
full dictionary and thesaurus as well as an automatic spellchecker, and
there's help at hand when users try to decide where to start or what to
write next. It even helps with fictitious names, offering a billion name
combinations for convincing characters, and has a place name database
covering the whole world. Although the software doesn't write the words
for you, its templates provide structure and guidance. To start you choose
a type of story and give it a working title. You also need to decide on
its size: short, with three phases, beginning middle and end; medium, with
six episodes giving scope for development; or long, with 12 chapters.
Story Wizard
then focuses on characters, encouraging users to think about the role they
play in the story and about their defining characteristics. It also pays
attention to location and themes; indeed, to all the ingredients of a
well-crafted story. One of its helpful features is a link to the Microsoft
speech engine to read aloud what has been written on the screen, although
to use this feature you need Windows XP. Finally, when you want to publish
your work it provides facilities to design the front cover. Story Wizard
is motivating and fun and earns a Best Budget Buy award. It is ideal for
home users but also deserves a place in the classroom." Janet Swift. Story
Wizard is also supplied to the schools system in the United Kingdom, where
it is considered a core curriculum title relevant to teaching creative
writing for ages 9-16.
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