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 BooksSeptember 2, 2026
Blaze 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 BooksSeptember 2, 2026
Book 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.
Children's BooksAugust 4, 2026
Cultured Books is a multicultural children's bookstore on Historic 22nd Street South, founded by Lorielle J. Hollaway in 2017 and paired with a literacy foundation from 2018. It runs as a pop-up, and its Book Report Project lets children buy…
Children's BooksAugust 2, 2026
The Story Garden sells children's books and nothing else, from the ground floor of a two-storey house on 14th Street North. The owner is a former primary teacher, and the free Wednesday story time is built around letting children move…
Children's BooksJuly 25, 2026
Sam's Books is a booth in the Antique Village at the Oldsmar Flea Market, run alone by Sharon Micek for decades. The specialty is pre-loved children's books, the stock is chosen instead of dumped, and there are blocks on the…
AudiobookJune 20, 2026
Ghostwriting children's books is deceptively hard. The word count is tiny and the craft is enormous, because every word carries weight.
AprilJune 14, 2026
International 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.
bellydanceFebruary 9, 2026
In 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…
bellydanceJune 5, 2025
Learn how I created a unique coloring book series focused on bellydance, blending artistic expression with cultural education.
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