Tag, You’re It! (Part 5)
Once your story is on its way to becoming a book ... this article will focus on the publishing steps of a children’s book from the author’s perspective.
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The New Book is Filling My Head
After the summer Bookology hiatus, Lynne Jonell is back with all sorts of images filling her head for her new book.
Getting Started
Just getting started is HUGE. The inner drive to set down that image that won't leave us alone ...
Swimming in a Sea of Ideas
Where do successful nonfiction writers get their ideas? So many places! The topics a nonfiction writer can write about are limitless. Sure, some ideas have been written about before, but nonfiction writers take that as a challenge. They ask what unusual angle they might take or if there is a different (or better) format in which to deliver the information.… more
Melissa Stewart
We are so pleased to have author and science speaker Melissa Stewart take time away from her very busy book-writing schedule to share her answers to burning questions we had after reading No Monkeys, No Chocolate, our Bookstorm this month.
Melissa, when do book ideas usually come knocking on your brain?
Ideas can come anytime, anywhere—so I always have to be ready.… more
Rolling the Storytelling Blocks
by Vicki Palmquist
Looking for hours of fun with a book the whole family can enjoy … or one person can easily study to learn to write or tell a story … better? Then you’ll want to give this a try: How to Tell a Story, written by Daniel Nayeri, illustrated by Brian Won, and published by Workman Publishing in 2015.
This book comes in a box.… more