Huzzah for a New Publishing Company with a Difference...
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Jan Carr & Lorraine Gregory @threeharesbooks Daring to be different - isn't that the essence of 'indie'? Three Hares B...
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Illustration Diversity
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Let'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...
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'Standing on the shoulders of giants' - like Robert Paul Weston…
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Abi Elphinstone There were two reasons I booked onto SCBWI’s Fantasy Writing for Young Readers workshop. Firstly, because the intern...
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Network News: Practically Perfect Pitching in the North East
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by Maureen Lynas Sara O'Connor I recently faced my technological fears and organised an online event for the SCBWI BI north east...
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A Fount of Fonts
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Catriona Tippin With self-publishing in mind this month, here are some thoughts on fonts.
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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 27th May
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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...
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The Stock Signing Lesson by Elizabeth Wein
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Image used with kind permission of The Sirenic Codex In the first flush of success that followed the publication of Code Name Verity...
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Stepping in and Stepping Up
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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...
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The Chalkface Challenge 2014
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THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED FOR ENTRIES. They're back! The love you or hate you sort of judges - though in our experience they...
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Candy Gourlay - Winner of the Crystal Kite 2014!
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Candy's First Crystal Kite It's official: Candy Gourlay , you're the toast of SCBWI British Isles and SCBWI Ireland! Can...
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Featured Illustrator: Heather Dickinson
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This month Words & Pictures welcomes Manchester based Heather Dickinson as our Featured Illustrator. Heather first discovered SCBWI ...
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SCBWI British Isles 2014 Writing Retreat
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Dunford House We're delighted to have Colleen Jones report for us on a recording-breaking year for the SCBWI writers' retre...
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Somewhere between the rainbow... Part Two
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Nicky Schmidt One hopes that as more established authors self-publish both new and out of print work, and as debut authors self-publish ...
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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 20th May
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What do video games, viruses and vampires have in common (well, apart from the obvious alliteration)? They all make an appearance on the B...
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Somewhere between the rainbow... Part One
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Is there a “third way” of publishing? Nicky Schmidt Since writing a series of blog posts on self-publishing in 2011, I have follo...
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A Spark of Independence
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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...
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Books are now Bound!
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Let glasses chink and bubbles of whatever your tipple may be, fizz… It's many, many congratulations to Sara, Sara, Karen and Jasm...
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An Illustrator's view of the London Book Fair
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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...
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Simply Super
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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...
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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 13th May
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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 ...
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Ask a Picture Book Editor
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So, 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...
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The Whys, Wherefores and What Nexts?
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Contributor George Kirk talks about her Slush Pile Challenge Prize including her project Manfred .
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I'm Book Bound
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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...
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Congratulations Teri for an amazing 11 awards!
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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...
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Making a Picture Book Dummy
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Tools for making a dummy As publishers lean more and more towards picture books both written and illustrated by artists, creating a pres...
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Swimming Against the Tide - an Interview with Ali Fraser, Editor of Stew Magazine
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As part of Words & Pictures' Everything Indie month, Nick Cross chats with Ali Fraser, the editor of Stew Magazine - a new bimo...
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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 6th May
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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...
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State of Independence
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A Words & Pictures Inspiration piece First off, apologies to all those who now have the Donna Summer hit wriggling into their ears. ...
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Welcome to May!
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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...
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Zuppardi’s cooking up a storm!
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Words and Pictures is thrilled to welcome back Sam Zuppardi to the celebrations page! Sam, the illustrator of the middle grade series ‘The...
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Photoshop Brushes Part two - Let’s make our own.
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In the concluding part of his coverage of Photoshop tools (read Part 1 here ), Paul Morton shows how illustrators can create their very o...
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