Literary Agent, Lindsey Fraser on Submitting & The Edinburgh Book Fest 2014
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Sarah Broadley www.fraserross.co.uk As a volunteer with SCBWI British Isles, South East Scotland, I was privileged to be given the chan...
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The Debut Author Series: Jeannie Waudby
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The Learning Curve - Insights from Debut Authors Nicky Schmidt Photo by Erica Abi-Karam For many the road to publication is long a...
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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 29th July
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Hello there - a new voice on your Ten-Minute Blog break this week: Nick Cross has mysteriously transmogrified into a Yorkshire lass. The b...
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The Debut Author Series: Liz De Jager
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The Learning Curve - Insights from Debut Authors Nicky Schmidt For many the road to publication is long and fraught. For others, a...
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The Chalkface Challenge 2014: The Shadowing Results
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We know who won The Chalkface Challenge 2014 - congratulations again to Jill Atkins for Elrac and the Konkipong Tree but whose entries...
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Dashing Off
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After last week's excitement of The Chalkface Challenge Winner, Jill Atkins - (do go and read Jill's winning entry - it's wha...
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Blow Your Own Trumpet!
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...or trombone! Last year Nick said.... "We do have the Celebrations column on Words & Pictures, but what about a celebrat...
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Featured Illustrator: Alex Wilson
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This month's Featured Illustrator is Alex Wilson, an up-and-coming young artist with experience of training on both sides of the Atl...
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Network News South East: Volunteering and Storytelling with Quentin Blake and Friends
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Lorraine Cooke @MottisfontNT I’ve been a volunteer at my local National Trust property, Mottisfont Abbey in Hampshire , since March 20...
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Proofreading Tips: Dashes
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Catriona Tippin An occasional look at punctuation with Proofreading Tips: Nearly there? Make a dash for it! Punctuation started...
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The Road Goes Ever On
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An inspiration piece – with thanks to J.R.R. Tolkien for the title Horton Scar Lane by David Sykes Some years ago, I volunteered to w...
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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 22nd July
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Following Sarah McIntyre's celeb-heavy contribution last week, a couple of other SCBWI bloggers are giving us their perspective on YAL...
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The Debut Author Series: Jo Franklin
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The Learning Curve - Insights from Debut Authors Nicky Schmidt Photo by Liz Emerson For many the road to publication is long and ...
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The Chalkface Challenge 2014 - The Results
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There were 29 entries for the Chalkface Challenge 2014 - the only writing competition judged entirely by children*. This year two schools...
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(Not) A Word from Your Editor
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Jan Carr is having a well-deserved break from the editorial this week, so I, Nick Cross, will be attempting to fill in. I won’t go on too ...
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A Song of Peace
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This week, congratulations go to Helen Bonney who just won 3rd prize for the Tipperary Song of Peace Contest. Tipperary was made famous...
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The Debut Author Series
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Nicky Schmidt Part One - The Rejection Game - From slushpile to contract Most people when they start writing think it will take a yea...
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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 15th July
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Some weeks, compiling the Blog Break is hard - usually because there are too few good blog posts or too many. It's definitely a case o...
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Ask a Publisher: Karen Ball, Publisher at Little, Brown Young Readers and Atom
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@karenball talks to @HouseRowena Recorded May 10th 2014 at Oxon Hoath Manor House in Kent.
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Helloooooo lovely readers!
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Words & Pictures averages over a thousand page views a day - fewer if it's sunny! After a year and half of almost daily posts, th...
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Let's celebrate The Year of the Rat!
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This week, we are absolutely thrilled to dig into a huge slice of cake and crack open the bubbly for Clare Furniss . Her debut novel, The ...
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Illustration Masterclass: Ways into Publishing
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This week author/illustrator Shana Nieberg-Suschitzky reports on our recent Illustration Masterclass event in London , covering the diffe...
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Finding Your Voice in Southampton
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On the 28th June Southampton had it's first SCBWI event - tons of respect to all you event organisers out there! We welcomed Sarah Lean...
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That First School Visit
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The first school visit is a rite of passage that most children’s authors will have to face at some point. You picture in your head exactly...
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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 8th July
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There will be those amongst you who thought that Sarah McIntyre couldn't possibly top the insane headgear that she wore to launch Oli...
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Ask a Picture Book Editor
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So, you’ve worked out your universal theme , created child-centred characters and honed your tone and pitch . In...
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Last Week on W&P
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How was your Children's Book Week ? No longer having school age children, I did not spend last Sunday night scrabbling around for cos...
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'Extraordinary' Congratulations to Helen!
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Helen Watts We're very excited for Helen Watts, whose book One Day In Oradour has been selected for an Extraordinary Award in the 2...
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House of Illustration Illustrators' Fair: Notes from a Newbie
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Heather Chapman gives us an inside look to the House of Illustration 's inaugural Illustrators' Fair that took place Sunday 22nd ...
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Network News: Winchester Writers’ Festival
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We're lucky in the South to be so handy for the increasingly popular Winchester Writers’ Festival, now in its 34th year. Charlotte Com...
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Older Debuts
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You're never too old to become a published children's writer. In this post Janet Foxley shares her own experience of achieving su...
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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 1st July
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The Bunker Diary has been very much in the news this week. I knew that my teenage daughter had read the book and disliked it, so I asked ...
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