Laura is the publisher of Children’s Book Insider, the newsletter for children’s writers, and co-founder of The Children’s Writing Knowledge Base, an online membership community for aspiring and published children’s authors.

About Laura Backes

A 26-year veteran of the publishing industry, Laura has worked in publicity, subsidiary rights, and as a literary agent and freelance editor. She’s the author of Best Books for Kids Who (Think They) Hate to Read: 125 Books That Will Turn Any Child into a Lifelong Reader (Random House), and technical editor of Writing Children’s Books For Dummies (Wiley). Her articles have been featured in The Writer and Writer’s Digest magazines, the 2012 edition of Children’s Writer’s and Illustrators’ Market, and she speaks at workshops around the country.

Laura lives in Fort Collins, CO with her husband/business partner Jon, and their teenage son Matt. She and Jon run a public writing blog at www.writeforkids.org. Their most recent project is the Picture eBook Mastery course about Amazon’s Kindle Kids’ Book Creator software.

About Children’s Book Insider

Children’s Book Insider is a monthly newsletter subscription for authors and illustrators interested in publishing children’s books. Subscription includes membership access to the Children’s Writing Knowledge Base: an archive of resources with everything from articles to podcasts, spanning 25+ years of information on writing books for children.

In this interview, Laura and I chat about:

• The reason writing for children is so important
• Amazon’s new KDP Kids’ Book Creator and why it’s such a revolutionary tool for self-publishing
• What you need to do now to help your book stand out in the crowd
• What resources are available to you if you want to publish an e-book for children but don’t know where to start
• CBI’s new Picture E-book Mastery course
• and more…

“As writers we are creating art, and art should really have no limitations.”
–Laura Backes

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Connect with Laura on Twitter @write4kids and Facebook facebook.com/writekidsbooks. Also visit her website www.WriteforKids.org for tons of juicy tips about writing for kids. Interested in the membership site and CBI newsletter? Check out www.CBIClubhouse.com for more info.

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