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. ...
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August 23, 2006Under , you’ll find articles on beginning your editor search, how to communicate with editors, submisson protocol, as well as a monster list of editor links. Have a suggestion for an article? Can’t find your answer here? Leave a comment.
<<Continue Reading...>>in lieu of a useful article, look what I did!
August 17, 2006Hey everyone, I have to thank Lisa Albert for introducing me to this cool feature. If you’re at work, turn down your computer volume and check out my MySpace page at http://www.myspace.com/cynth_e_a. Scroll down a bit for the show! ...
<<Continue Reading...>>free-tique round: doors are closed!
August 16, 2006DOORS ARE CLOSED!!!! 1) Tell me if you are a re-tiquee or a new tiquee. See http://www.cynthealiu.com/freetiques if you don't know what you are. 2) In that email, ATTACH, ATTACH, ATTACH your FIRST three chapters OR your full PB/ER to cynthealiu AT ...
<<Continue Reading...>>proof of my insanity: what’s cooking tonight
August 11, 2006No, I'm not planning some huge tique-a-thon. I'm going to talk about something else. Like how I'm crazy. Because I've invited five people for dinner. Plus Snoop. Plus Hubbie. = Seven guests. Here's evidence I am delusional. What I'm cooking tonight Fried Wontons- I ...
<<Continue Reading...>>firedrill results: congratulations!
August 10, 2006Here it is folk, the results… BUT FIRST, let me say (for Snoop), that this was a very hard decision to make. Snoop saw the time and care that went into each of these scenes. And Snoop wants to remind you: ...
<<Continue Reading...>>scbwi-la: part deux and a word about firedrill
August 10, 2006Ah yes! I just finished another round of free-tiques. People, you're making my brain hurt with all this fabuloso writing. AGH. Which brings me to talk about SCBWI-LA again. Since I can't blog about tiquees without exposing their identities, I will ...
<<Continue Reading...>>top ten from scbwi-la and a chance to win a full-tique
August 8, 2006TOP TEN HIGHLIGHTS FROM SCBWI-LA 2006 Saw my first taping EVER. (Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, featuring guest Carlos Mencia). And apparently I was cool enough to sit in the front row. Woohoo! AND there's more. I won a whole ...
<<Continue Reading...>>free-tique round anyone? something new. it’s called FIRE DRILL
August 1, 2006DOORS ARE CLOSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hey, everyone. Dude, I've been so busy. Congratulating all the W.I.Nners and getting back into the groove takes a lot of work. Also I just finished another revision today. So yay to that. But now here's the ...
<<Continue Reading...>>congrats tiquees: you rocked W.I.N.!
August 1, 2006Well, well, well. Snoop does the Tiquee count. How many W.I.N.ners does Snoop personally know as tiquees? Can you guess? Six! No, Seven? Or Eight? Of course Snoop has not personally tasted all the winning tiquee works. BUT he will ...
<<Continue Reading...>>my precious seven days
July 31, 2006In case you were wondering, I'm back! Here's what happened to my precious seven days: Day 1: Ah. I am free of email, tiques, etc., Time to work on my own stuff. That I did. And I checked Verla's and LJ 80 ...
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