If you’re a children’s writer and you long to write for and sell to the holiday and seasonal markets, then you won’t want to miss this week’s teleclass sponsored by the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club. Members of the club automatically receive access...

As the founder and director of the National Writing for Children Center, coordinator of the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club, and the host of Book Bites for Kids, a talk show about children’s books, I come in contact with a great many children’s...

If you’re a fiction writer, you know what dialogue tags are. They’re the he said - she said part of writing that lets the reader know who is speaking. Dialogue tags are best when they seem to disappear as you’re reading a story. Here are a few...

Okay. I admit it. Even though I’m a writing coach, which means I’m SUPPOSED to be very patient with writers, I DO get a little (okay, maybe I get VERY) impatient with people who come to me and say, “I don’t need a writing coach. I write very well,...

Wow! It’s November already. And this month is a GREAT month for writers! First, the entire month is National Novel Writing Month, so sign up to write your very own novel within the next 30 days at www.nanowrimo.org and start cranking out the words...