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 - 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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