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Ask an Agent - with Gemma Cooper and Molly Ker Hawn, from the Bent Agency

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Are you looking for a query critique from those in the know? Or do you have a question you've always wanted to ask an agent? Each mo...

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Ten Minute Blog Break

Ten Minute Blog Break - 30th of July

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By Candy Gourlay Acting Nick Cross Clone So Nick Cross has gone off on an amazing adventure holiday but the Ten Minute Blog Break must ...

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“No holidays, no country.”

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Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity , c/o Good Reads. As holidays are pretty much common to all countries and communities in one form or ano...

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From Your Editor

Tap Tap Tappity Tap...

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Can you hear it? The tap tap of keyboards up and down the land honing 4k word opening extracts for Undiscovered Voices . Illustrators , ho...

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The Chalkface Challenge: The Shadowing Results

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So far no one has told me that the Chalkface Challenge isn't the only kidlit competition wholly judged by children so, so far, we ar...

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Celebrations Cornerstones Literary Consultancy The Standen Literary Agency Undiscovered Voices

How entering Undiscovered Voices could bag you an agent - even if you don't win...

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This week I'm excited to crack open the bubbly and say a big congratulations to Christina Banach. She truly is a testament to Never ...

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Duck & Bear Episode 5

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It's here! The climax of the tale. Will Duck's epic tale see the light of publication? What has Bear been cooking up? Find out here ...

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Network News, Featuring Ellen Renner South West Network

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Ellen Renner on SCBWI and the writing life - in conversation with Lesley Moss @Ellen_Renner Ellen Renner has been a South West Netwo...

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Team Cooper's Agent Retreat - Part Two

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by Gemma Cooper from the Bent Agency, Team Cooper and Benjamin Scott One of the many cakes! Following on from Part One of Team C...

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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 23rd July

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I'm sure I can't be the only one wilting from all this heat, but our SCBWI bloggers march on regardless. Grab a tall glass of ice...

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Social Sheila Video: how to claim Google Authorship as a writer

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Have you heard about Google Authorship? It's part of Google Plus , and it's something you need to know about if you are a children...

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From Your Editor The Chalkface Challenge

Fresh From the Chalkface

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It's so exciting to publish the results for our first Chalkface Challenge . It's a win-win-win kind of competition. The children...

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The Chalkface Challenge: The Results

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There were 27 entires for the first Chalkface Challenge - the only writing competition judged entirely by children*. The judges were year ...

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Celebrations Sam Hawksmoor Slated Teri Terry the Amazing Book Awards The Repossession The Wirral Paperback of the year

Sam Hawksmoor and Teri Terry battle it out at the Amazing Book Awards

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And the results? The Gold went to Teri Terry's Slated and the Bronze to Sam Hawksmoor's The Repossession. Has Teri got enough r...

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FEATURED ILLUSTRATOR - Jane Heinrichs

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Illustrator Jane Heinrichs has crossed the globe from her native Canada to South Africa, but is now firmly based in London. She's al...

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Network News: Featuring George Kirk, North-West Network

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George Kirk tells us a little about her network and what belonging to a SCBWI network means to her:

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Team Cooper's Agent Retreat - Part One

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by Gemma Cooper from the Bent Agency and Team Cooper The night the retreat idea was born I have SCBWI totally to blame for my clien...

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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 16th July

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After me complaining last week that there wasn't enough new blog content, suddenly there's too much! Still, as problems go, it...

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Ask A Publisher - Q&A with Sara O'Connor, Editorial Director at Hot Key Books

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Welcome to our monthly Ask A Publisher feature, hosted by Sara O'Connor , Editorial Director, Print and Digital at Hot Key Books . T...

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From Your Editor

A missed celebration, an unchallenging pizza and a load of great stuff in between...

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We've had our 100th W&P day and I didn't spot it! It was Tuesday, 2nd July . For me, Tuesdays are busy work days. I run a cl...

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Let's drink a toast to Lydia Syson, and celebrate with Gladiators and Summer Explorers

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Don't you just love to sip at something cold and fizzy on a hot day? I'm so excited to crack open the champers and celebrate this ...

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Picture Book Basics - Understanding Format

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In the first of a series of articles on picture book basics, Words & Pictures Illustration editor John Shelley offers some beginner ...

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Network News: In the Summer-time

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By Gill James School will soon be out. Families will be going away on holiday. It may get too hot to move and you may not want to be indo...

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Agent Confidential: Julia Churchill

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Name : Julia Churchill AKA : Church Agency : A.M. Heath

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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 9th July

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If I hadn't realised it was summer from looking out of the window, I'd certainly have noticed from the sudden drop off in new blog...

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From Your Editor

The Buzz in Sunny Norwich (photo update)

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So wanted to post these with my weekly round up on Sunday but the interweb was not playing nicely. Now back home, posting problems resolve...

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Working with more than one publisher

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It's over to Andrew Weale , author of Spooky Spooky House and Nora , for the third of our guest blogger features. In this post, And...

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From Your Editor

The Buzz in Sunny Norwich

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On one of the best weekends of the year to be in Norwich - guess where I am! I've just had coffee with our excellent illustration fea...

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Slush Pile Challenge - July 2013

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We are pleased to announce the July 2013 Slush Pile Challenge .

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Celebrations Denyse Kirkby Patron of Reading

Hurrah for the Patron of Reading Denyse Kirkby

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@djkirkby Congratulations and Hip Hip Hooray for Denyse Kirkby, who has been newly appointed as the Patron of Reading for Beacon View Pr...

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Plaister Press

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Author-Illustrator Gillian McClure has enjoyed a long career working with publishers creating children's books - and then she began pu...

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Network News: networking in the networks

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By Gill James We’ve talked about the types of critique groups that exist in the networks and some of the venues where network mee...

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Ask an Agent: How Not to Write a Query

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In our Ask an Agent feature this month, agents Molly Ker Hawn and Gemma Cooper from the Bent Agency have written a post about wha...

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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 2nd July

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As you know, we try to be as diverse and inclusive as we can on Words & Pictures (and in SCBWI more generally), so I'm pleased to...

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Pictures, Books and Ancient Inspiration

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By Philippa R. Francis [K. M. Lockwood] Our ancestors held no prejudice against illustrated books for adults. Art and words were beauti...

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