Added to my For The Love Of Reading resource for teachers, librarians, booksellers and young readers: a free, print-ready “Reading Lets Your Imagination Soar” poster. For all my free, print-ready…
I’ve added a free, print-ready poster version of this wonderful Madeleine L’Engle quote to my For The Love Of Reading page. You can find links to ALL my free, print-ready…
…obtain.) Hm, and I notice she has a book on revision: NOVEL METAMORPHOSIS: UNCOMMON WAYS TO REVISE. Anyway, do visit her site for excellent tips on the craft of writing: http://www.darcypattison.com/…
…it’s well-meant and meant to encourage, not frustrate. I find it’s different if the “you got this” is coming from someone who is already familiar with my history, like my…
…I got active in the online kidlit community in November of 2007. I learned about NaNoWriMo immediately–EVERYONE was chatting about it. I was jealous of novel writers having all the…
Thanks to those who answered my dog-earing survey! Exactly 100 people responded. I know the percentages don’t add up to exactly 100; I think SurveyMonkey was rounding up or down….
…free time, I read more. The L. Perkins Agency www.lperkinsagency.com esckeyes.blogspot.com Twitter: @esc_key TWEETABLE: Mistakes by new kidlit writers: 1. Thinking it’s easy 2. Not reading it. – Lit agent @esc_key http://bit.ly/18bL1Zm (Tweet…
…of voices for this story, including kid Mozart, the Earl of Sandwich, and Blackbeard the Pirate. Was that a challenge? A joy? A spiralling research nightmare? A. A spiralling research…
…our sabbatical. During that time, I realized that my entire experience in the corporate world could be compared in many ways to stacking firewood. In a practical application of this…
…His new YA, The Great American Whatever, comes out from Simon & Schuster in March. More info about Tim at TimFederle.com. The above image ia also available as a free, print-ready poster for schools,…