A Brief Guide to Time Travel by Sam Hawksmoor 02:00 I’ve always loved Time Travel stories and movies such as Twelve Monkeys or the recent Looper . I love the paradox and all the complexit... 3 Comments Read
Mother's Day Angst 02:43 It's Mothering Sunday in the UK, today - who are your favourite fictional mums? Some of mine are the wonderfully fickle and cringefull... 0 Comments Read
Book L(a)unch 06:35 What’s the difference between a Book Launch and a Book Lunch? Once upon a time, in the year of 2013, I got an email from the warm and ... 4 Comments Read
Featured Illustrator: Portia Rosenberg 00:00 This month Featured Illustrator welcomes Portia Rosenberg to Words & Pictures . Through imaginative pencil drawings, Portia has deve... 12 Comments Read
How to Make Money from Writing and Illustrating for Children 14:00 Discover Story Centre Stratford London On Thursday 13th March I went to a Masterclass in "How to make money from writing and illu... 6 Comments Read
Judy Waite's London Masterclass - Growing Pains: Writing for Young Adults 02:00 © John Shelley What lengths are you prepared to go to in order to tap into your teenage protagonist’s mind and find their voice? Would... 3 Comments Read
World Book Day becomes 'I Wrote A Book Day' in Pencaitland 02:00Sheila Averbuch What happens when you throw a writer with no classroom experience into the odyssey of writing a "whole-school story... 11 Comments Read
Some Very Good Reasons for Booking on the 2014 Writers' Retreat 02:00 First reason: Pyjama Party Tatum Flynn had a truly splendid time at last years writers' retreat. If you are still ummimg and aaahhi... 1 Comments Read
Everyone is talking about 'Unspeakable'! 02:00 This week the Celebrations Team is delighted to announce that UNSPEAKABLE, the outstanding YA debut by Abbie Todd, is set for publicat... 8 Comments Read
Picture Book Basics: Pop-Ups 00:00 Last month, pop-up book virtuoso Trish Phillips showed some of the processes involved in designing her distinctive three dimensional boo... 7 Comments Read
March Dare 08:30Andrew Weale We welcome picture book writer Andrew Weale to Words & Pictures with some excellent advice. Over to Andrew... I’m a ... 4 Comments Read
Ten-Minute Blog Break - 18th March 02:30 Believe it or not, the Blog Break will be a year old next week. Sometimes (usually Monday lunchtime with an empty blog post in front of me... 4 Comments Read
Creature Feature the First: The Griffin 02:00Ken Lymer In our first instalment of a new Words & Pictures feature on creatures of myths and legend, we focus upon the griffin. Th... 5 Comments Read
Serendipity, Soothing and Other Lovely Things 13:09 It's been a lovely week - Catherine and I have been recording our first podcasts in Oxford and London with some very interesting peop... 1 Comments Read
Hooray for Honorary Mentions! 00:20 Here it is: after the hullaballoo of the Undiscovered Voices Winners' Party , here's our roll of honour for all those nearly ther... 1 Comments Read
Photoshop Brushes Part 1 01:37 Photoshop is one of the cornerstones of digital art, so ubiquitous there can be few illustrators who've not experienced the software ... 3 Comments Read
Network News: Plotting and Pacing in the North-east 02:30Maureen Lynas Meeting up with the NE regulars is always fun but it was great to see some new faces too as we gathered in York on 1st March ... 3 Comments Read
Everything you need to know about plurals 02:00 This week, Catriona Tippin aka @ProofReadingTip tells us all about plurals... 3 Comments Read
Ten-Minute Blog Break - 11th March 02:30 I have emerged, blinking, into the light this week and put fingers to keyboard for my own blog again. It's a good feeling and I'm ... 6 Comments Read
Now We Are One 10:00Birthdays and other Celebrations in Storytelling © John Shelley , from Outside In , Frances Lincoln 2010. 1 Comments Read
Two More Birthday Top Picks! 14:04 Have I made inroads into the next WIP? No - I've been too wrapped up in The Great British Sewing Bee but that's another story... ... 5 Comments Read
The Skull in the Wood shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize! 02:00 Get ready to dig into a big fat slice of cake this week, as we celebrate with Sandra Greaves, author of the chilling contemporary ghost st... 2 Comments Read
The Cambridge Summer School for Illustration 00:00 With the summer season of courses and schools for book creators fast approaching, Margaret Sturton looks back at her experiences at las... 3 Comments Read
Network News: South East... and a surprisingly high score from Southampton 02:00 Southampton FC seem to be doing ok at the moment - they're still in the premier league which means they must have been scoring goals… ... 7 Comments Read
It's Party Time for the Undiscovered Voices! 02:00 The launch of another volume of Undiscovered Voices is always a moment for great celebration. Twelve writers and five artists – all unagen... 3 Comments Read
Ten-Minute Blog Break - 4th March 02:30 Oh my, there were some terrific blog posts this week. What to pick? What to leave out? What to have for lunch? The life of the Words &... 0 Comments Read
Ask a Picture Book Editor 02:00 Ellie and Natascha are delighted to join our Ask a Picture Book Editor column, where you can ask them anything you’d like about pictu... 5 Comments Read
Our Birthday Month 13:10 We are now in our birthday month! As you all know, I'm sure, Words & Pictures, has been going a lot longer than wordsandpics.... 5 Comments Read
A meeting at the SCBWI-BI conference gives Cath Howe a flying start! 02:00 This week we're delighted to announce that Cath Howe is up, up and away with the amazing agent Anne Clark, of the Anne Clark Literary... 4 Comments Read