Writing for children means respecting the sharpest audience in publishing: kids abandon a boring book without guilt. These articles cover children’s books: craft for young readers, the market’s realities, and the discipline the form demands.
Children's BooksBlaze says slow down contains no useful information. She is not wrong. It describes a direction without providing a mechanism, and a child who blurts before deciding to blurt cannot simply decide to stop.
Children's BooksBook One gave Blaze a tool. Book Two is about what happens when the tool has a flaw and forty people have already used it. She does not fix it quietly.
AudiobookGhostwriting children's books is deceptively hard. The word count is tiny and the craft is enormous, because every word carries weight.
AprilInternational Children's Book Day is April 2. Why children's books are so hard to write, how young adult differs, and how one writer got his start.
bellydanceIn this conversation I talk about turning a decade of belly dance photography into coloring books, four of them built from real performers instead of generic clip art. Shooting dancers since 2005 is exactly what makes them different. Here is…
bellydanceLearn how I created a unique coloring book series focused on bellydance, blending artistic expression with cultural education.
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