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n March I took the Reforemo challenge of studying 5 picture books a day every day! I also decided to look at all the places besides libraries I could get picture books - airports, museum stories, even Alcatraz on a trip to SF! Fun month. Sometimes I felt overwhelmed by the total brilliance of a few and other times annoyed that such YUK got published. Lots more stuff in rhyme (not always perfect!) than the editors behind the slush piles would have us believe!  

I'm looking forward to the "Revising and Re-Imagining Your Picture Book" webinar, coming up April 29 from Eileen Robinson and Harold Underdown of Kid's Book Revisions. I'm hoping it will help me improve my picture book manuscript. If you write picture books, you should look into it! http://www.delvewriting.com/picture-books-hu.html #PBwebinar
Kid's Book Revisions

2015 - the Big One!

New year - ready for action!

Just sent off 3 manuscripts to editors/agents from our SCBWI fall meeting, applied for the Laura Crawford mentorship and send a first page critique application for January. I am also working on a Grown Up travel piece for a contest - and Sunday's sermon!

Let's write!

a very scary month!

The submission record excel spreadsheet hold so many possibilities. I have submitted 4 different stories to 8 agents or publishers. Launched into cyber space - and no hope of a reply unless they are interested. But there is no hope of anything if they don't go out! So encouraged by the sunshine I'll put myself out there...  

the end and the beginning

I finished #26 last night - lots of Bible stories this time but that project has been hanging around for years so some real progress got made. February also had several sermons, a newsletter and Lent devotional guide. Now I am setting my own goal for March: Submission Marathon! 15 stories submitted to agents or editors in 31 days! Starting tomorrow....

Looming for sometime

I've had this idea scratched on envelopes and in notes books - and finally wrote it! The Three Little Wolves. Needs more 'wacky" but it is a start. So that is 22 of 26!
And i think in March I am going to have a submissions marathon - 15 agents or editors in 31 days! there is so much slush outside a few more trips to the pile can't hurt...