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04-03-25 ICL TITLE ABCs of Revision

ABCs of Revision

Writing for Children BlogBy Morgan LaneyApril 3, 2025Leave a comment

It’s important to work methodically through revision so you can keep problems as small as possible, and there are some key elements to do so.

Published Grad Bea Donaldson

Bea Donaldson

Published GraduatesBy Morgan LaneyNovember 15, 2024Leave a comment

Celebrate with our published grad Bea Donaldson and her recent published book PARABULUM.

4 Tips for Deciding What You Want in an Agent

4 Tips for Deciding What You Want in an Agent

Writing for Children BlogBy Morgan LaneyOctober 24, 20241 Comment

Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Certain things are true of all professional literary agents. If they are good at their job, they function as matchmakers between publishable manuscripts and the publishers who need them. Beyond that, they handle details of contracts and manage…

The First Steps in Contacting Agents

The First Steps in Contacting Agents

Writing for Children BlogBy Morgan LaneyOctober 17, 2024Leave a comment

Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Let’s suppose you’ve written a book, and you’d like to get an agent. You want access to the kinds of publishers you simply cannot reach without an agent. Plus, you want the contract skills that agents tend to bring…

4 Book Proposal Pitfalls

4 Book Proposal Pitfalls

Writing for Children BlogBy Morgan LaneyOctober 10, 20241 Comment

Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Creating a book proposal can seem daunting. After all, it feels like a high stakes creation. It draws on skills we aren’t always comfortable with. Skills like talking about yourself and talking about your book can make even…

Pitching Your Picture Book

Pitching Your Picture Book

Writing for Children BlogBy Morgan LaneyOctober 3, 2024Leave a comment

Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > In the publishing world, pitching used to mean trying to talk an agent or editor into taking on your picture book, sight unseen. When pitching your picture book there were elevator pitches, which were short bursts of descriptions…

Writing Nonfiction for Very Young Readers

Writing Nonfiction for Very Young Readers

Writing for Children BlogBy Morgan LaneySeptember 26, 2024Leave a comment

Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Writing nonfiction for very young children, whether you’re writing for children’s magazines, or writing picture books or board books, requires specific things from the writer. You must be able to focus, you must be able to say much…

The Big 3 of Nonfiction

The Big 3 of Nonfiction

Writing for Children BlogBy Morgan LaneySeptember 19, 2024Leave a comment

Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Many newer writers don’t consider nonfiction when deciding what they would enjoy writing. They see it as less creative or less interesting. And they associate it with homework, which many of us don’t remember fondly. And yet, nonfiction…

Sensing It: Bringing Show Don’t Tell to Your Nonfiction

Sensing It: Bringing Show Don’t Tell to Your Nonfiction

Writing for Children BlogBy Morgan LaneySeptember 11, 2024Leave a comment

Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > If there is one mantra fiction writers hear all the time, it’s “show don’t tell,” which means writing in the moment and digging into sensory detail rather than information dumping on readers. Actually, it means more than that,…

4 Steps to Improve Readability in Children’s Books

4 Steps to Improve Readability in Children’s Books

Writing for Children BlogBy Morgan LaneySeptember 5, 2024Leave a comment

Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > For kids, back to school means back to books. As writers, we are often part of the process of bringing books to these kids. And schools buy books based on how well they will work in a school…

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