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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!
Do Your Characters’ Descriptions Matter?
Character descriptions are essential to make your characters alive. It’s what helps the reader make a connection to the character and the story.
What Should You Do If Your Book Fails?
What happens if you’ve done all your book marketing right, but your book fails anyway?
Writing a Marketable Children’s Book: 1st Four Steps
There are a number of elements to create a marketable children’s book, the first is knowing your target audience.
The Great First Impression Book Proposal
The Great First Impression Book Proposal by Carolyn Howard-Johnson is the perfect audiobook to give you the tips and insight your need to help get your book proposal through the Publisher’s or Agent’s door.
Even Tiny Action Steps Can Produce Huge Results
Every journey begins with a first step. It’s the same with writing. It may seem to be taking a long time to see big results, but think of the sequoia tree.
The Writing Juggling Act
Writing is a juggling act. It’s all about creating new stories or articles. The other aspect of the writing juggling act is book marketing.
Giving Basic Writing Advice
As a writer, what do you do when you’re asked to review a manuscript or give it a critique, and it’s terrible?
A Story Revision Checklist
Having a story revision plan is a good way to be effective. For the first-round, it helps to condense long-winded paragraphs, find better word choices, make dialogue sound kid-friendly, and replace “telling” with “showing” passages.
How to Make Your Story’s Setting Come Alive
When writing a story, it’s important to realize that your setting can add more than just the time and place of your story.