Writing for Children and Teens: A Crash Course, Updated in 2022
November 26, 2022Hello, WFCAT fans, The pooch crew has been hard at work on an update of the Crash Course that started it all! Strap on your helmet. Buckle up! Writing for Children and Teens: A Crash Course has been updated in 2022. ...
<<Continue Reading...>>And our free-tique winner is…..
June 29, 2007Steve Arnold! You have won the free-tique drawing, conducted by Snoop! Congratulations! Enjoy the weekend, everyone.
<<Continue Reading...>>The easiest-free-tique round-ever is open!
June 27, 2007IN WRITING NEWS: Well, I promised one and here it is. A free-tique round is open, but before you spazz and madly try to locate the file you want to send, READ THIS FIRST. All you need to do this time is ...
<<Continue Reading...>>Guess who’s on The Purple Crayon?
June 7, 2007In writing news: Harold Underdown, author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Publishing Children’s Books, Second Edition just featured one of my articles on his website The Purple Crayon! If you’ve never been there before, do check it out for a ...
<<Continue Reading...>>how to avoid children’s book scams
June 4, 2007I have run into countless writers who have spent hundreds of dollars on literary agents, vanity publishers, and book doctors, in the hopes of making it big in children’s publishing. It really breaks my heart to hear this because the ...
<<Continue Reading...>>How To Interview a Literary Agent
June 2, 2007I’ve been asked this question quite a bit since I wrote my series of articles on How To Find a Great Agent For Your Children’s Book. It occurred to me that I never provided detailed information on how to execute ...
<<Continue Reading...>>Costco is SO DEEP!
June 1, 2007IN OTHER NEWS: I rarely do any leisure reading these days, but when I do, I am amazed by what I find. In this month’s COSTCO CONNECTION (the mag that goes out to devoted members like me), I read an old adage ...
<<Continue Reading...>>I’m in!
May 21, 2007IN WRITING NEWS: All this conference talk has made me feeling a bit left out. So I promptly registered for the SCBWI-LA conference this summer. Look out, folks, I’m joining the party! SNOOP SAYS: What about me?!
<<Continue Reading...>>In deep concentration…(free-tiquees, listen up)
May 11, 2007IN WRITING NEWS: There has been a lot going on in C-LIU-land and I am going to need to go into a deep state of concentration. Free-tiquees waiting to redeem slots may turn them in during this time. However, the ...
<<Continue Reading...>>RLGL winners announced!
April 2, 2007Snoop read and read till he couldn’t read no more. The winner of the FULL-TIQUE is #5-YA, exceeding 12 pages. The winner of a free-tique slot, stopping at 12 pages is #24-YA. Winners, you may redeem your tiques no sooner than May 1st ...
<<Continue Reading...>>RLGL: round six
March 28, 2007Woah, we have five, not four, entries that cleared page six. I have one PB entry clearly in the lead in the last round. Because this contest has to end tonight, at least the semi-real-time portion of it, we have ...
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