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Author: Karen Cioffi

Karen Cioffi is an award-winning author and children's ghostwriter. She loves to help those who want to be the author of a children's book fulfill their dream. Contact Karen today to get your story started!

Your Children’s Manuscript: Synopsis to Submissions

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Once your manuscript is complete, it’s time to submit if you’re taking the traditional path. The first thing you’ll need is a synopsis. Then it’s on to the submitting process.

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Self, Indie, and Hybrid Publishing – Which is for You?

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Authors have lots of choices when it comes to publishing. There’s traditional, self, indie, and hybrid. Which is best for you?

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6 Things a Writer Should Always Do

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What’s the very first thing you should do as a writer? It’s pretty simple, you should know what you’re doing. Find out the other five things.

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Shaun the Sheep and Marketing with Animation

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If an hour and a half cartoon movie with no talking can hold a child’s attention, you can be assured using short-clip animation will do the same for your book marketing audience.

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Sell Your Books Face-to-Face

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Book marketing encompasses a lot of strategies, one of them is selling books face-to-face. Find out how to go about it.

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Sensitivity Readers – Are They Now a Necessity?

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Description: We’re in a world where some people have ultra-sensitive trigger fingers. We’re in a world of hidden social media lurkers and bullies. Under the circumstances, do you need a sensitivity reader for your manuscript?

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Two Ways to Format Your Manuscript

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Contributed by Linda Wilson Properly formatting my MG mystery book loomed in the background during editing. The reckoning day arrived. Thanks to children’s author Margot Finke, I knew who to call upon: the formatting service at Golden Box Books Publishing Services. Margot sang the praises of Golden Box author Erika M. Szabo, who did the…

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7 Steps to Creating a Successful Writing Career

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If you are selling books, you have a business, even if just a simple sole proprietorship.

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6 Writing Mistakes to Avoid

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Six writing mistakes to avoid if you want to be author of a book you’ll be proud of.

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Words Can Influence Your Writing Career

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Tips on turning negative words and habits into habits that can nurture your writing career.

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