You have an idea for a children’s story, but aren’t sure how to get it started. What’s the first step? Is there a first step? Is there a step-by-step procedure? What’s involved? There are lots of questions that may come up for new writers, but there’s really no ‘for every writer’ answer. What will work…
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5 Things You Cannot Recover
5 Things You Can’t Recover The stone … after the throw A word … after it’s said An occasion … after it’s missed Time … after it’s gone Trust … after it’s lost I love this quote and wish I knew who originally wrote it. It was originally four things, I added the fifth. While…
10 Hot Tips for Writing a Good Children’s Story
View Post A while ago, I received a query from a potential client who wanted a children’s picture book series. She had seven ideas for storylines. Numbers 2 through 7 were sound ideas. They focused on a child protagonist and lent themselves to conflict, but the first one wasn’t kid-oriented. The story idea for book…
5 Top Tips to Boost Your Writing Skills
There are a number of strategies you can use to create and build your writing skills, but I’ve found there are five top strategies. 1. READ! If you don’t read, you won’t know what good reading is. Along with this, it will help you fine tune your own writing, by broadening your vocabulary. Another thing…
Your Self-Published Book and the ISBN
Being a children’s ghostwriter, I get a lot of clients who self-publish. Many of them use companies that will do the work for them, actually format and publish and distribute the book, like Amazon does. If you self-publish a physical book or ebook and intend to sell it online, in bookstores, or pretty much anywhere…
How Much Are You Worth?
“If you put a small value on yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.” I love this quote and wish I knew who wrote this – I’d love to give him or her credit. This quote is so appropriate for all writers. You have to value your writing skills and your…
Want to Become a Writer? Read!
I read Suzanne Lieurance’s Morning Nudge this week and one of the tips was about the one thing most important for aspiring writers. Reading. So what exactly does that mean, to read? Read in the Genre You Want to Write I’ve written about this a number of times. If you want to write, especially for…
Writer’s Conferences Are Not All the Same
A few of my clients who travel the ‘real’ traditional publishing road have attended writer’s conferences, or are thinking of attending one. Well, Carolyn Howard-Johnson has a great article that helps writers choose the perfect one. Every writer thinking of attending a writing conference should read it. CHOOSING THE PERFECT WRITER’S CONFERENCE Guest Post by…
5 Rules of Writing a Children’s Book
As a children’s ghostwriter, I usually work on multiple children’s book projects daily. This usually includes weekends. I also have a family. So, my plate is FULL. Juggling all the time, I thought about what it takes to write, not just children’s books but other genres as well. Here is my list of the 5…
16 Reasons Why You Should Publish a Book
Carolyn Howard-Johnson Author of the multi award-winning #HowToDoItFrugally Series of books for writers There are naysayers enough to fill every dark crevice in your defense against negativity. When people telling you not to publish a book (no, I won’t list all the reasons they will give you), here is a list for you to check…