Huzzah for a New Publishing Company with a Difference... 02:00Jan Carr & Lorraine Gregory @threeharesbooks Daring to be different - isn't that the essence of 'indie'? Three Hares B... 3 Comments Read
Illustration Diversity 00:00Let's be frank, it's not easy these days to make a full-time living as an illustrator in the UK. Many agree that these are tough tim... 7 Comments Read
'Standing on the shoulders of giants' - like Robert Paul Weston… 14:00Abi Elphinstone There were two reasons I booked onto SCBWI’s Fantasy Writing for Young Readers workshop. Firstly, because the intern... 3 Comments Read
Network News: Practically Perfect Pitching in the North East 02:30 by Maureen Lynas Sara O'Connor I recently faced my technological fears and organised an online event for the SCBWI BI north east... 2 Comments Read
A Fount of Fonts 02:00Catriona Tippin With self-publishing in mind this month, here are some thoughts on fonts. 7 Comments Read
Ten-Minute Blog Break - 27th May 02:30 Some of our SCBWI bloggers are so reliable that the same names crop up again and again on the Blog Break. Not that there's anything wr... 1 Comments Read
The Stock Signing Lesson by Elizabeth Wein 02:00 Image used with kind permission of The Sirenic Codex In the first flush of success that followed the publication of Code Name Verity... 6 Comments Read
Stepping in and Stepping Up 15:00 Our lovely W&P Editor Jan is on a well-earned break, so I offered to step in for this week's editorial. First up, if you have... 4 Comments Read
The Chalkface Challenge 2014 02:00 THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED FOR ENTRIES. They're back! The love you or hate you sort of judges - though in our experience they... 10 Comments Read
Candy Gourlay - Winner of the Crystal Kite 2014! 02:00 Candy's First Crystal Kite It's official: Candy Gourlay , you're the toast of SCBWI British Isles and SCBWI Ireland! Can... 14 Comments Read
Featured Illustrator: Heather Dickinson 00:19 This month Words & Pictures welcomes Manchester based Heather Dickinson as our Featured Illustrator. Heather first discovered SCBWI ... 15 Comments Read
SCBWI British Isles 2014 Writing Retreat 02:00 Dunford House We're delighted to have Colleen Jones report for us on a recording-breaking year for the SCBWI writers' retre... 11 Comments Read
Somewhere between the rainbow... Part Two 02:00 Nicky Schmidt One hopes that as more established authors self-publish both new and out of print work, and as debut authors self-publish ... 3 Comments Read
Ten-Minute Blog Break - 20th May 02:30 What do video games, viruses and vampires have in common (well, apart from the obvious alliteration)? They all make an appearance on the B... 3 Comments Read
Somewhere between the rainbow... Part One 02:00 Is there a “third way” of publishing? Nicky Schmidt Since writing a series of blog posts on self-publishing in 2011, I have follo... 3 Comments Read
A Spark of Independence 02:00 Thank you for bearing with me last week. Pre Book Bound, my head like my fiction (see below) was all over the place. Now half way thro... 1 Comments Read
Books are now Bound! 02:00 Let glasses chink and bubbles of whatever your tipple may be, fizz… It's many, many congratulations to Sara, Sara, Karen and Jasm... 4 Comments Read
An Illustrator's view of the London Book Fair 00:00 This week, Anna Violet takes an illustrator's eye view of the 2014 London Book Fair I ventured to the London Book Fair as a lone il... 8 Comments Read
Simply Super 02:00 Mike Brownlow Superhero Supply Co. We were on a mission. We had our orders and knew we must carry them out to the letter. The Manha... 6 Comments Read
Ten-Minute Blog Break - 13th May 02:30 I was a little worried this week that no-one would have written blogs, due to the two different writing retreats over the weekend (one of ... 1 Comments Read
Ask a Picture Book Editor 02:00So, you’ve found your UNIVERSAL theme, but what can you do next to make your writing really stand out from the crowd? Our next three blogs w... 4 Comments Read
The Whys, Wherefores and What Nexts? 11:41 Contributor George Kirk talks about her Slush Pile Challenge Prize including her project Manfred . 13 Comments Read
I'm Book Bound 02:00 Can't helping thinking of being egg bound every time I refer to the Book Bound Weekend . It's where I am at the moment and hopef... 0 Comments Read
Congratulations Teri for an amazing 11 awards! 02:00 This week, crack open the champers and make some noise for Teri Terry who’s just launched the final book in the Slated trilogy, Shat... 1 Comments Read
Making a Picture Book Dummy 08:18 Tools for making a dummy As publishers lean more and more towards picture books both written and illustrated by artists, creating a pres... 7 Comments Read
Swimming Against the Tide - an Interview with Ali Fraser, Editor of Stew Magazine 02:30 As part of Words & Pictures' Everything Indie month, Nick Cross chats with Ali Fraser, the editor of Stew Magazine - a new bimo... 6 Comments Read
Ten-Minute Blog Break - 6th May 02:30 As I write this, it's Bank Holiday Monday, the sun is shining, and yet here I am inside, ironing shirts for the week ahead while simul... 2 Comments Read
State of Independence 02:00A Words & Pictures Inspiration piece First off, apologies to all those who now have the Donna Summer hit wriggling into their ears. ... 1 Comments Read
Welcome to May! 10:23 Welcome to May and as it is that day today I'm going to say it: May the fourth be with you - oh yes! And we have a new monthly the... 0 Comments Read
Zuppardi’s cooking up a storm! 17:00 Words and Pictures is thrilled to welcome back Sam Zuppardi to the celebrations page! Sam, the illustrator of the middle grade series ‘The... 1 Comments Read
Photoshop Brushes Part two - Let’s make our own. 23:49 In the concluding part of his coverage of Photoshop tools (read Part 1 here ), Paul Morton shows how illustrators can create their very o... 10 Comments Read