Alice Kuipers, the award-winning young adult author, sat down with Laura Backes to chat about her transition to picture book writer, and how writing picture books helps authors learn the craft for every age.
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Check out all of Alice Kuipers’ books at alicekuipers.com.
In this video, our writing coach Teresa Funke walks you through the steps needed to find the perfect agent to represent your work. This video also appeared on our writeforkids.org site, but it’s so good we wanted to make sure Insiders saw it as well. And as a special gift
Writing coach Teresa Funke shares her best tips on dealing with the hardest aspect of being a writer, getting rejections. Download Teresa’s Submissions Tracking Chart to track your rejections and acceptances.
Getting feedback, whether it’s from a writer’s group or a professional editor, is a crucial step in your journey to becoming a published author. In this video, Teresa tells you what to look for in a critique, how to handle constructive criticism, and how to work with an editor at a publishing house.
Children’s author and writing coach Teresa Funke is back with another powerful video. This time, she talks about the process of creating a memorable title for your fiction children’s book.
Teresa, our Expert Guide At-Large, is the owner of Teresa Funke & Company and Victory House Press, which offer products, programs,
Find out about our new partnership with Pubslush, an impressive platform that allows authors to raise money to create, produce and promote their work. Laura takes you on a site wallkthrough, and then sits down with Pubslush VP Amanda Barbara.
Laura will even show you our own section on
Looking to reach out to a well-known author, editor or agent for some advice and assistance? It can be done, but you need to go about it the write way. Jon’s here with some tips!
Successful authors have done one single, simple thing that has helped them vault to success. In this video, Jon tells you exactly what it is!
I recently had a very enlightening discussion with Jane Friedman, a University of Cincinnati professor and author of The Future of Publishing: Enigma Variations. Jane’s the former Publisher of Writer’s Digest and author of Beginning Writer’s Answer Book. And with more than 135,000 Twitter followers, she’s among the most
Using some free tools, you can create your own eBook ready to sell! In this exclusive video and PDF guide, Jon shows you how to do it, step-by-step.
And here’s a handy PDF that details all of the steps:
Jon interviews Karen Robertson, author of “The Author’s Guide to Book Apps”. Karen explains how any writer can easily and inexpensively create an app version of their book or story.
Karen has a free report about building apps just for Fightin' Bookworms. Just head over to http://bit.ly/apps4kids (affiliate
Let's continue our series of quick videos about developing a success-oriented mindset with a chat about the way successful writers approach their careers. The key: avoiding the "all or nothing" syndrome.
In this video, Jon explains why knowing the difference between being a writer and an author is vital – and which label newcomers should embrace.
Agents are some of publishing’s true heroes. They’re also among the hardest-working folks we know. In their honor, we’ve prepared a video that will help make their lives easier — and your career more successful.
We’ve got a little-known technique for finding literary agents who are accepting new clients, along
Looking to send a manuscript to children's book publishers? Here's an easy three-step approach to help you find just the right publisher for your story!
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