Faves

Here you’ll find a comprehensive list of links to my favorite resources. These are the sites or things I use to further my own writing career. Check them out!

To make it to this list, I must personally use the resource often!

Writing (Basic/Mechanics)

Writing (Advanced/Theory)

Research Children’s Books

  • Renaissance Learning – For word counts and book levels
  • Amazon.com – For the first pages of many novels
  • Google Book Search – For a great inside look of many books

Buy Children’s Books (Cheap, cheap, cheap!)

Research Children’s Book Publishers

  • CBC
  • CWIM (Children’s Writer’s and Illustrator’s Market) – Also contains info on agents and contests
  • SCBWI publications
  • Reputable publisher websites
  • Publisher’s Weekly Children’s Bookshelf Newsletter (PW – fabulous and free newsletter!)
  • Publisher’s Lunch (PL – Not always children’s stuff but still great coverage of recent children’s book deal information)
  • Jacketflap.com (A searchable database of children’s books and more)

Research Children’s Book Editors


Research Children’s Literary Agents

  • CWIM (Children’s Writer’s and Illustrator’s Market)
  • SCBWI publications
  • Google
  • AgentQuery (online)
  • Preditors and Editors
  • Mediabistro (online) for a few agent and editor interviews

Meet Other Children’s Writers

  • Blue Board (Verla’s)
  • Children’s Writers group on Yahoo (CW List)
  • TeenLitAuthors group on Yahoo
  • Livejournal
  • SCBWI national and chapter events, associated distribution lists and message boards

Keep Up With Children’s Book Market News

  • Publisher’s Weekly Children’s Bookshelf Newsletter (PW – fabulous and free newsletter!)
  • Publisher’s Lunch (PL – Not always children’s stuff but still great coverage of recent children’s book deal information)
  • Author Anastasia Suen’s blog on her website, Asuen.com
  • Author Cynthia Leitich Smith’s blog Cynsations