Have you ever considered writing to a specific audience outside of the norm? An author can sit down and write for a specific genre (i.e. science fiction, fantasy, and general fiction), age group and topic. What about writing for those kids who are reluctant readers? Kids, who have trouble reading at [...]
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I’ve attended more than a few writer’s classes and meetings where the topic of ‘doing your homework’ with regard to manuscript submission has been discussed at length. ‘Doing your homework’ refers to the research a writer should do to determine the appropriate market trends and publishers to submit a manuscript to. [...]
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We all set them. Whether it’s for weight loss, achieving financial gain or for personal reasons, we all set out with goals or New Year’s resolutions each and every year. Did you finish that novel in 2009? Did you even start it?
Over the last few years, I’ve published two children’s books, [...]
When writing for an audience, it is important to remember the senses.
Much of a story can be defined as flat if the sense of touch, taste, sight, hearing, and smell don’t affect the characters you are writing about. If you include what a character is feeling with their senses, you draw the reader into [...]
The first annual Calgary Children’s Book Fair and Conference featuring local children’s authors and illustrators is set to take place Saturday, November 14, 2009. Promoter and children’s author, Simon Rose (The Doomsday Mask 2009), took the challenge of creating and administering this new book event.
When asked why he wanted to bring [...]
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I’ve received a few calls this week from people who have written a children’s book and the question asked is one I’ve heard several times before, “What do I do now?”. They have some knowledge of the publishing industry, but not much. I am not sure how much writing experience they have, but the question [...]
There are many reasons why a writer can’t write. If you are a writer where characters, plots and settings surge through your mind like an electrical current and you can’t wait to get to a pen and paper or a keyboard, then you will understand what it means to you when you can’t write. In [...]
Being in the book publishing, and graphics industry, one comes up against copyright all the time. When you create a piece of writing or artwork that is original, specifically from your thoughts, crafted, designed and written or illustrated by you without the use of any copying methods, then you own the right to that piece [...]
It’s all about confidence. Are your ready to share?
Not many of us enjoy public speaking. For some it’s very natural, for others, an absolute nightmare, especially for authors who are introverted, and face it, most of us are quite introverted. Otherwise how could we sit for hours on end with only our characters to keep [...]
Just as I was talking about entering writing contests yesterday, the following came across my email today about the 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Amazon is looking for new voices in fiction and are accepting entries. If you care to do the work to have your manuscript in proper format and send it in on [...]
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