If you’re working with a children’s ghostwriter, be aware that there is a writing momentum. And it’s important to keep that momentum going for the story and for the ghostwriter’s time and workload.
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!
10 Top Book Marketing Strategies
Here are 10 of the most important tips to bring you and your books visibility and credibility, boost your mailing list, and boost sales.
Author Website Must-Have Elements
Most of my clients self-publish, and I know they don’t realize they should have an author website. Even if it’s simply a landing page, about page, and book page, authors need a website. And your landing page, as well as your entire site, should be focused on a specific site related keywords. This includes your…
The New Year
What we’ll all need is perseverance and resilience. A writer who is also a psychologist, Dr. Valerie Allen, has some advice. I hope it helps you get through 2021.
Writing First Paragraphs
When Stephen King writes a first draft, he just writes. So, I understand this to mean that crafting comes with revision. And to draw your reader in, your opening line “should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know this.”
A Children’s Writing Coach – Do You Need One?
25 Reasons You May Need Help Writing Your Own Children’s Book I’ve been a children’s ghostwriter and rewriter (book doctor) for many years. Now and then, though, I’ll get people who come to me for help but want to write the book themselves. This is great. I encourage wannabe authors to go for it. The…
Writing and the Imposter Syndrome
I watched an amazing Zoom webinar with Carolyn Howard-Johnson and her publisher Victor Volkman. It was from the Upper Peninsula Publishers and Authors Association Writing Conference – they did it virtually rather than in-person. Carolyn is an award-winning author and an expert book marketer, so I listen when she has something to share. A small…
Should You Edit Your Professional Edit?
Once I ghostwrite a children’s story, I edit and proofread it. If I don’t have enough time to let the story sit for a while, I’ll send it out for proofreading. Or if it’s a middle grade or young adult and I’ve been working on it for a long time and am too close to…
Don’t Give Up – Seek Inspiration
Contributed by Linda Wilson All writers experience it: low times. A low time can rear its ugly head after a particularly painful rejection, a bad case of writer’s block, or in my current challenge, a serious case of lack of writing time. At times like these there is only one thing to do: Seek inspiration….
Writing for Children – Know What You’re Doing
As with anything you attempt to do, it’s essential to know what you’re doing. My father was a contractor – he built homes. How structurally sound do you think those homes would have been if he didn’t know what he was doing or didn’t know how to read blueprints? Or what about a musician who…