Can the story survive the digital age?
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Driving home on Friday evening, I tuned into Front Row on Radio 4, broadcasting from the Hay Festival. If you didn't catch this, it...
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Around the world with scbwi
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Have you ever wondered what SCBWI members are up to across the world? Each month we will be globe-trotting to take a look. T...
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Featured Illustrator - Heather Kilgour
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As Featured Illustrator this month we welcome Heather Kilgour , who many will recognise as a familiar face on SCBWI's Illustration Com...
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Cut to the Chase - Books that sell, and sell well.
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Lil Chase @lilchasewriter Commercial Fiction – Masterclass Event with Lil Chase. Event report by Olivia Levez. It’s almost midday, a...
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Network News: News from Central East
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Critique Groups Update By Helen Moss, Central East Co-coordinator Earlier this year we decided to branch out by setting...
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The Buzz - Everyone's talking about... Vlogging
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Illustration by Whizzy Barr ALL ABOARD THE VLOG-WAGON By Larisa Villar Hauser Every now and then a story explodes in the papers and ...
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Blog Break Interview with Sarah Broadley
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Welcome to the second of our monthly features about blogging and blog techniques. After talking to the all-knowing Candy Gourlay last mon...
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A new kind of publishing: Time Traveler Tours makes its debut
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I never thought of myself as an entrepreneur. But then I realised that those of us trying to live by our art must act as our own little ...
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Beware your inner fan club
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We all know about the warnings to push aside the doom and gloom of our inner critic. But what about our inner fan club? Read on to see wha...
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Open Sketchbooks Part 2
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Here are some more terrific working pages hot from the sketchbooks of industrious SCBWI illustrators. Our previous selection, Part 1 can...
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Writers' Retreat - Event Report
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Dunford House Alex English reports back from the 2015 SCBWI Writers' Retreat at Dunford House, deep in the Hampshire countryside...
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Pulse Comes to the North West
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SCBWI is delighted to announce our new partnership with the Manchester Children's Book Festival; a partnership that launches our Pulse...
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Proofreading Tips: Commas.
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By Catriona Tippin. Grammar bug - The Comma Butterfly Here’s a look at proofreading your commas. This isn’t a complete grammar le...
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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 19th May
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Welcome back, blog lovers! Picture books seem to be a dominant theme this week, with a side order of crusading journalism and some very s...
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Howdy!
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I feel I should be wearing a Stetson to say that. The cowboy style expression is a variation of the old English greeting 'How d'...
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How to be discovered
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Undiscovered Voices 2016 launched last Thursday. Read on to find to find out exactly what it is the judges are looking for, to appear in t...
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Small Big Celebrations
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Three SCBWI members are celebrating the launch of Litmus 2015 ~ the anthology of new writing from MA Critical and Creative Writing and MA ...
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Mudpie Mo, by Anna Violet
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This week we welcome the launch of a new comic strip, created by the ever resourceful imagination of Anna Violet . Welcome Mud Pie Mo, Epis...
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Elizabeth Wein: World Building - Event Report.
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Making time for world-building By Fiona McKeracher I'm about to start writing a new book, an exciting but daunting place to...
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Lost the Plot? Plan your way to success!
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Help! I'm plotting mad... Are you a plotter or a pantser? Me? I'm a shocking pantser. I try to plot - I do. I do, I swear! Bu...
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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 12th May
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You join me from Hamburg in Germany, where I'm travelling for work. But due to the wonders of Wi-Fi, I'm pleased to be able to pr...
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Ask a Picture Book Editor
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What makes a good cover and title? In a market place full of beautiful, well-designed books it’s imperative that your book makes a big im...
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Become a Discovered Voice
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This is a unique opportunity for SCBWI BI members. Don't worry if you can't make the launch this coming Thursday. Next Sunday I wi...
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Small Big Celebrations! Alex English signs with new agent.
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By Charlotte Comley I'm super excited to announce a new feature on the Celebration Page , it's called Small Big Celebrations! I...
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SCBWI Portfolio Intensive
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In the wake of another SCBWI Portfolio Intensive there were mixed emotions: happiness, elation, relief, joy and feeling deflated in some ...
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Philip Reeve in Exeter: Travelling faster than light
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Event report by Lesley Moss Railhead by Philip Reeve It was a bright, breezy day in spring, and the city of Exeter was ready to d...
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The Debut Author Series: Lu Hersey
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Nicky Schmidt The Learning Curve - Insights from Debut Authors For many the road to publication is long and fraught. For others, a p...
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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 5th May
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Just a quick reminder of the competition to design a new logo for this column . You've got until the 17th May, so you'd better hu...
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How to publicize your book for the maximum impact
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Stop! There may be better ways to publicize your book. Emma Donnan, who runs Busy Bee PR, a public relations agency for books, an...
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Less donkey, more blossom
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This past week has been chock full of deadlines. Early on Tuesday morning I found myself proof-reading my daughter's dissertation on t...
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Featured Illustrator - Melany Pietersen
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This month's Featured artist is South African born illustrator Melany Pietersen. An internationally published artist, Melany's wo...
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