ANSWERS TO YOUR BURNING QUESTIONS
It's a whole episode of your listener questions! Editor and Publisher Eileen Robinson is back answering your questions and giving it to you straight. We discuss:
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WE CELEBRATE WITH OUR MOST POPULAR EPISODES
To celebrate our 100th episode, we’ve edited together
some of our most popular episodes, all in one easy-to-listen to package:
002-Three Keys to Writing Nonfiction for Children
004-Don't Tell Us a Story
005-Picture-Books-101
032-How Submissions Work
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CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
In this episode, Katie interviews Editor and Publisher Eileen Robinson. Editor/Publisher Eileen Robinson loves the power of stories and helping authors revise. She feels once the draft is done, the revision process is where an author’s skill, inventiveness, and individuality begins to shine through. She has worked in children’s publishing as an editor for over 20 years, in-house and independently at both Scholastic and Harcourt — in educational publishing, school and library, with has trade, magazines, book fairs and clubs. She now owns f1rstpages.com, partners with Harold Underdown in Kid’s Book Revisions, and publishes book through Move Books Children’s Publishing.
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4 TIPS TO TAKE YOU TO THE WINNERS' CIRCLE
If you want to know how to win a writing contest, take it from someone who has judged a lot of writing contests. Here are four things that will almost automatically get you past the first few rounds of judging. They seem like simple things, but it is amazing how many folks don't do them.
1. DON'T ENTER SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T FIT THE CONTEST
Honestly. You just cannot win if it doesn't fit the contest parameters.
If it's a picture book contest and you send the first chapter of your novel, you simply cannot win.
If it is a contest for children's mysteries and you send a mystery with an all-adult cast, you're not going to win.
If it is a children's poetry contest and your poem is about the frustrations of retirement or the pain of your divorce, winning is not going to happen.
Even if your work is brilliant, can you imagine the firestorm of protest if the winner of their contest didn't match the theme of the contest? So, save your time (and the judge's) for contests where your entry fits.
For three more tips, listen to the full episode!
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