
Let the 2024 SCBWI Europolitan Come to You!
Calling all children’s book writers and illustrators in Europe! Focus, Color, Query, and Setting Workshops for Writers and Illustrators of Children’s Books For those of

7 Insights from the SCBWI Europolitan Conference in Belgium
This beautiful building is the musical instrument museum in Brussels, Belgium. What is the SCBWI Europolitan? A chance to meet people who live in Europe

Need more hidden conflict in your work-in-progress? The Conflict Thesaurus to the rescue!
Fun & Games With Conflict?! Read about how I used The Conflict Thesaurus with my Middle Grade book below. Does it work for children’s authors?

Is Ingram rejecting your print files? Here’s the Mac fix.
To publish a print edition of a book, both IngramSpark and Amazon ask for a print quality PDF that is “flattened” and includes “embedded fonts”.​

Want more emotion in your fiction and less drama pinning down the draft?
If you are a fiction writer and haven’t ever used Angela Ackerman’s and Becca Puglisi’s writing thesauri, you might be really missing out. You know
Need some ideas about how to handle The Waiting Game?
Just when you think it will never come, spring arrives. Image: ©Laurel Decher, 2018. Over at The Winged Pen there’s a post from 2018 about