What is a twitter pitch party? Several pitch parties take place during the year. Authors are invited to pitch the concept of their book to agents and editors in just 280 characters (the max size of a tweet). Agents and editors are primed by the organisers to browse the tweets during the day and ‘like’… Read More Authors, don’t ignore Twitter Pitch Parties in 2022. They are a great way to find an agent.
The children’s non-fiction genre is exploding with innovative content and creative book titles to hook young readers. Want to keep up with the competition? Read on! A title always speaks to the child reader. A title should be original and memorable. A title indicates the genre and content of the book. A title suggests the… Read More How to generate children’s non-fiction titles that stand out from the crowd.
This is the third year I have completed Tara Lazarre’s StoryStorm Challenge to generate 30 new story ideas (one a day) in the month of January. Though Tara’s challenge is focused primarily on picture books, I use the month to generate ideas for board books, non-fiction, young fiction and even MG and the odd YA… Read More Evaluating Ideas after StoryStorm 2020
My StoryStorm month of idea generation. I’ve just finished StoryStorm, an annual challenge where participants pledge to write down a story idea a day for the month of January. There’s a daily blog post to inspire and lots of giveaways from mentors. I’ve always kept a notebook of ideas (on my iphone) and I’ve never… Read More StoryStorm 2018: How did I do?
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