Blazing a Trail
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Sandra Greaves Book trailers are increasingly important marketing tools for authors. So how do you go about making one? Sam Hepburn ch...
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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 29th April
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What does it take to get a book published? Is it simply a matter of persistence and luck? Can we writers/illustrators influence the proces...
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Q & A with Fantasy Writer, Robert Paul Weston
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Robert Paul Weston is the internationally award-winning author of several fantasy novels for children and young adults, including Zorgama...
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Chained to the Kitchen Table
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The sky is grey and raindrops are splashing on the patio so the best place to be is here at the kitchen table or scoffing meatballs in t...
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Hurray for the Crystal Kite Shortlisters and Don't Forget to Vote!
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The annual Crystal Kite Award is a peer-given award to recognize great books from 15 SCBWI regional divisions around the world. Last yea...
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Featured Illustrator: Jaimie Stevenson
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For this month's Featured Illustrator we welcome Jaimie Stevenson , a developing artist based in Bedfordshire with a distinct range of...
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Network News: North West – a writer on a scrawl-crawl
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@GillJames Who would have thought it? Late march in Rainy City (aka Manchester) and warm enough to spend a substantial part of the day ...
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World Book Night - Just Do It Anyway
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@jancarr April 23rd, Shakespeare's birthday and death day, and Cervantes death day, is the night of giving away books. Book-giving...
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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 22nd April
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Hello Scoobies, I hope Easter brought you lots of chocolate/non-fattening alternatives. My thanks go to Nicky Schmidt for holding the fort...
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Easter Sunday Revelations and Round-Ups
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Isn't it wonderful to have the lovely Beverley Birch smiling on the front of our blogzine, beamed across from Notes From the Slush ...
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Balu's Basket is out now!
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It's always lovely when a W&P team member has a success. Here's Chitra, our writing competitions editor who does a wonderful job...
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Children's Books and Medieval IIlumination
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@HAC_illustrated As an illustrator and medieval historian (or so my university degree claims) I love all things pictorial and historic. S...
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Events: What’s not to love?
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A big Words & Pictures welcome to our new ARA, Stephanie McGregor ! Steph has a special responsibility to oversee our events all over...
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Keith Gray's sell-out Edinburgh workshop tackles Strong Beginnings
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by @suzebain Where are you on the writer’s pyramid? Are you a ‘wannabe’? Full of ideas? Prepared to rewrite? Keith Gray, author...
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Virtual Authors
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Jonathan Emmet Virtually visiting a school in Atlanta Much has been written recently about the benefits of authors and illustrators vi...
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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 15th April
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Your erstwhile Blog-Breaker, Nick Cross, has decided to skive off for the week, and I’m here in his stead. It’s only a small change rea...
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Ask a Publisher: Liz Cross, Head of Publishing, Children's, OUP
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@LizJCross talks to @CathJacobNews . This interview was recorded in Oxford, at Oxford University Press, on 12th March 2014 .
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What a lovely day!
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We had a lovely time yesterday. There was food, fizz, cake and chatter - people meeting for the first time or catching up in real life a...
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Minty Fresh Success !
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Christina Banach Christina Banach is our lucky champagne toast recipient today! Her debut, Minty is out this week from Thre...
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Sketchcrawling in Manchester
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SCBWI BI North West held its first sketchcrawl day event last month at the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI), Manchester. Children&#...
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Titles and characters: choices with marketing in mind
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Catriona Tippin You’ve written your book. You’re researching your social media strategy. Here are some tips on spotting marketing prob...
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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 8th April
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With the London Book Fair in full swing, the future of publishing is inevitably a key point of discussion. But as fascinating as that subj...
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Ask a Picture Book Editor
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What makes a good picture book topic? So last month we challenged you to tell us what you think makes a good picture book topic. I’m ...
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People, you know who you are, I AM doing my homework
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Now that Bologna's Bologna'd, it's time for London to do the Book Fair thing. The London Book Fair is this coming week and I...
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Muncle Trogg love hits Germany... And congrats to Kim for an Honorary Mention!
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This week, congratulations go to Janet Foxley for the latest news on Muncle - or Munkel - Trogg who has found success in Germany. Then we...
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Walter Crane and Mythology in Children's Books
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Walter Crane Illustration is all about ideas and inspiration which can be turned into a theme relevant to the story – whether it is for ...
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Linkedtwitfacetumbletube - From The Other Side
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Nicky Schmidt A while ago I posted a piece about social media on my blog and how the business of building a platform, when you don’t ...
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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 1st April
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It's April the First, and I was tempted to write an entire Blog Break full of spoof posts this week. However, as there was no round-up...
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