Writing picture books can be great fun, but they’re not easy to create. There is the story, characters, illustrations, formatting, and so on.
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Writing a Book? How Long Will It Take?
You’re thinking of writing a book and want to know how long it will take. Well, it depends on a number of factors.
Children’s Book Series and Book Sales
If you’re putting the work into a children’s book series, how best can you promote your work and increase book sales?
Writing, Organization, and Productivity
Contributed by children’s author Linda Wilson Have you taken an honest look at your work habits lately? Have you looked at your writing area, your organization and productivity? I’m one to talk. That’s why I didn’t clean up my office before I took the photos for this post. If I’m working on a project non-stop,…
Are Writing Courses Worth the Cost?
Writing courses – should you or shouldn’t you?
Writing Your Character’s Reactions to a Threat
The best way for your character to connect with the reader is by allowing the reader to see the character’s emotions. While conflict is a biggie in getting the reader involved in the story, if the character doesn’t show emotions, the conflict wouldn’t hold much weight. What do I mean by this? Suppose Ara is…
Self-Publishing and Book Returns
If you’re self-publishing your book, you’ll need to think about book returns. Should you, or shouldn’t you?
10 Tips to Reduce Your Blog Post Writing Time
Every author needs to promote their books and part of that promotion includes blogging. But how do you reduce your blog writing time?
Testing Out the AI Program Waters as a Writer
I’ve been meaning to find a free or reasonably priced AI program for authors. In my research, I came across several of them. My search keyword was “free story writing ai.” The first sponsored program that came up was Grammarly. Now, I use Grammarly and it’s not a content creation tool. It will edit and…
Self-Publishing: ISBNs, Amazon, and IngramSpark
Amazon is having a problem recognizing the new 979 ISBNs. This is causing problems for authors.