Featured Illustrator: Jion Sheibani
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This month Words and Pictures welcomes a new artist Jion Sheibani as Featured Illustrator. With experience of living in both the UK an...
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Judy Waite: 'Growing Pains, Writing for Young Adults' Masterclass, 8 March 2014
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Alison Smith @judywaite2 Judy Waite is an award-winning author of over forty novels for children and young adults. Her work ranges thr...
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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 25th February
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Numbers seem to be a big theme in the world of SCBWI blogging this week, whether it's: 1) how many books you've sold 2) how many...
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Shaping an MA: an interview with Julia Green
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Eden Endfield @JGreenauthor The Bath Spa MA in Writing for Young People has been a great success, with many distinctive published writ...
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If Only W&P Could Talk...
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The title nicked and bodged from James Herriot's 1973 classic is not such a vain hope, oh no. We're running with the marvellous S...
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A Debut Historical Writer Joins the Literary Scene!
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This week we are recognising the achievements of SCBWI member, Paula Warrington, and hear how she is inspiring others to strive for thei...
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Pop Ups: Part One
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Ed's note: A post from SCBWI BI's Illustrators' blog 2010, very much worth rerunning here as a prelude to Trish Phillips ...
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When Words Get Together
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Hyphenated words / hyphenated-words / hyphenatedwords Catriona Tippin aka @ProofReadingTip gives us the low-down...
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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 18th February
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Turned out nice again, hasn't it? Er, no. Not at all. So my suggestion is to stay inside (ideally in a boat) and enjoy the best of t...
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Sarah Lean on Voice
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Charlotte Comely @SarahLean1 Warm, friendly and amazingly down to earth were the comments from students after Sarah Lean came to giv...
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Falling in Love Again...
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Next month is the submission window for the SCBWI Work in Progress Grants and in my Internet meandering this morning I came across an int...
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Nick Cook rides the clouds to success
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@CloudRiders Hearts, flowers and chocolates galore go to SCBWI debut author Nick Cook this week, as we celebrate his deal with Three Ha...
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Quickfire Illustrators
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Sally Kindberg What's the one thing that illustrators have in common? With all the variety of techniques and approaches we have, wha...
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More than words on a page
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Nicky Schmidt Morag and Nicky Everyone keeps reminding us; writing is tough, as is getting published. For those writing short stories...
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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 11th February
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It's nice to emerge from my hermit hut for a quick blog-reading break, as I've had my head down writing this last week. It's k...
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With a Passion
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During February, the retailers encourage us to think of passion in its later romantic definition. But before it was borrowed, it had...
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In Praise of TV
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Yesterday was National Libraries Day and confession time, I realised that so far this year I have not read a single book cover to cover a...
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Agent Party Success Story!
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Pop those corks, people! Today we are celebrating not just one person's great news but the wonderful way that SCBWI can help you i...
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Picture Book Basics - Graphic Design
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After the artwork is created the next stage to consider is the text and the design layout. For a commissioned title this might all be hand...
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Network News: Mixed-genre critiquing in the North-West
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By Gill James The events room at Waterstone’s is even more mysterious than usual. There’s just about enough room to set out a long table...
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The Yuk Factor
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By Celia J Anderson Let me explain. The Yuk Factor is a term we use in my Year Five and Six reading groups for any sort of writing that...
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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 4th February
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I'm sure you've been on tenterhooks since last week, wondering what happened to that enormous boil on Maureen Lynas's bum? Wel...
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Trust Your Subconscious by Beverley Birch
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Try a web search on ‘subconscious mind’. You’ll find a surfeit: definitions, exploring it, connecting subconscious and conscious to expand...
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In the flow...
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Welcome to February and I think we're in the flow. There's been talk about voice in the SCBWI ether over the last week or so. We&#...
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Let's celebrate with The Nowhere Box and a Perfect Prig!
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This week, as we welcome in the Chinese Year of the Horse, we take a pause in our feasting to toast two debut picture book author-illust...
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