The Children's Writer's Guide
The Children’s Writer’s Guide examines how to get started as a writer. Topics covered include where ideas come from, editing and revision, choosing character names, research, magic in stories for children, marketing and promotion.
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The Children's Writer's Guide 2 explores the writing process, developing characters, creating dialogue, book covers, blogging, age levels and appropriate content, networking, and submitting your work to publishers.
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In any profession, everyone has to start somewhere and writers are no different. Every published author out there was once an unpublished author. Fourteen publishers, including big names such as Penguin and HarperCollins, rejected J K Rowling’s manuscript for the first novel in the Harry Potter series. http://simon-rose.com/books/the-childrens-writers-guide/
The Children's Writer's Guide - Simon Rose
The Children’s Writer’s Guide examines how you can get started as a writer, create time and space to pursue your craft and deal with lack of motivation and writers block. Topics covered include where ideas come from and how writers turn them into stories, choosing names for characters that are appropriate to the story, the importance of historical research, writing science fiction and fantasy, magic in stories for children, school vists, and marketing and promotion.
Just as we’ll never please everyone we encounter throughout our lives, rejections are a part of being a writer and happen to everyone at some point or another. To quote renowned science fiction author Isaac Asimov, “almost every writer, before he becomes a success, even a runaway supernova success, goes through an apprentice period when he’s a ‘failure.’” http://simon-rose.com/books/the-childrens-writers-guide/
No one wants to be rejected, of course, but when submitting your work for publication, the experience remains very much an aspect of the writing life. Throughout their careers, all writers will be rejected by publishers far more often than they’re accepted. http://simon-rose.com/books/the-childrens-writers-guide/
As a published author, you’re responsible for marketing and promoting yourself if you want your books to sell. You have to remain in the public eye as much as possible and do events on a regular basis, such as book signings, just like J K Rowling. http://simon-rose.com/books/the-childrens-writers-guide/
Although you might receive rejections in your quest to become published, rest assured you’re in good company. John Grisham’s first novel, A Time to Kill, was rejected by a dozen publishers and sixteen agents before it was published and launched his career as a best seller. http://simon-rose.com/books/the-childrens-writers-guide/
Even writers who have sold millions of books were told at some point early in their careers that they’d never be published. And of course if they’d stopped submitting their work, they’d never have been successful. Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit was rejected so many times that she initially self-published it. http://simon-rose.com/books/the-childrens-writers-guide/
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