Mentorship is Strong in Writing Kidlit
…Hopeful applicants submit according to the program’s rules, which usually require some combination of query, sample pages, and synopsis. Just like submitting to an agent or a publishing house, this…
…Hopeful applicants submit according to the program’s rules, which usually require some combination of query, sample pages, and synopsis. Just like submitting to an agent or a publishing house, this…
…or break a story’s success. This is your chance to grab readers, editors, and publishers, so don’t waste time with paragraphs that take away from the voice, events, characters, problem,…
…As you experiment, grow, and find what works for you, you’ll gain connections, build a following, and with time, expand into additional channels. By day, Emily Wenstrom, is the editor…
…Hans Christian Andersen and Music: The Nightingale Revealed (2005). Her work has also appeared in The Hopkins Review, Musical Quarterly, Nineteenth-Century Music, Notes, The Cambridge Companion to Liszt (2005), and…
When you submit your essay, poetry, or short story to a magazine or journal, your cover letter is usually the first thing an editor sees. While it is important, it…
…modern writers, Cormac McCarthy, drew his inspiration for his novel The Road from conversations with other people. The Wall Street Journal article states that the author, although not very outgoing,…
…University. Her debut sci-fi thriller, They Will Be Coming for Us, published June 1, 2021. You can subscribe to her self-publishing blog at AuthorKimCatanzarite.com/blog, or follow her on Twitter, Instagram,…
…recently purged from the Oxford Junior Dictionary (like the OED with training wheels). All of these words name life in the natural world, among them wren, bramble, kingfisher, otter, acorn….
…big skull lately that leaders are just ordinary people with a little bit of influence. If you write, and anybody—I mean, anybody, even if it’s just your mother—reads your writing,…
Of all the seasons, summer is the most conducive to reading. Longer days, beachside lounging, and the greater availability of iced beverages are perfect companions for paperbacks in your sandy…