For Aspiring or Established Authors:
KidLit
SCBWI I'm a member! Are you?
Through The Looking Glass Children's Books Reviews: reviews, history, author birthdays and websites, etc. You name it, it's here!
Tara Lazar: PB construction know your layout
More Picture Book Resources on the Web
Picture Book Marathon (annual marathon)
PiBoIdMo (happens each November)
The Book Publicity Blog
The Children's Book Club Council
The Pitch (from Query Tracker)
Loglines: ie Hook expanded
The Bookshelf Muse: Emotion Thesaurus
Help! I Need a Publisher!
Agent Query
The Big Ol' Genre Glossary
Where to put paragraph, scene and chapter breaks in your work
Authors Now
Review Fuse
Mincemeat: On Writing
Curious Pages
Jacket Flap
Useful Websites
SFWA
10 Rules for Writing Fiction
Paper Tigers
"Expert Addiction" and Other Way Cool Links!
SlushPile Hell
Ask Daphne
A Whole Lot More! DoYou Want to Get Published or Not?
YA Highway
Your First Page
writers digest 101 websites
Critique Circle
The Yellow Brick Road
picture books in elt
Picture Book Party
Reading Rumpus
Smories
The Red Room: Where the Writers Are
Book Hive
An Illustrators guide to Creating a Picture Book
Is Your Book a Dummy? It Should Be!
Fellowships/Residencies/Dinero/Grants:
MacDowell Colony
Trans Artists
Alliance of Artist Communities
PEN
Books/Must Reads on Writing i.e. MAPS:
Children's Writers's Word Book--by Alijandra Mogilner, Tayopa Mogilner
Writing Picture Books-- by Ann Whitford Paul
DEAR GENIUS: THE LETTERS OF URSULA NORDSTROM ed. by Leonard S. Marcus
THE SPYING HEART by Katherine Paterson
THE WRITER’S GUIDE TO CRAFTING STORIES FOR CHILDREN by Nancy Lamb
Spilling Ink
Writing for Children and Teens--by Cynthea Liu
Writing Great Books for Young Adults
Other Books on Writing for Children
Woe is I-- by Patricia T. O'Connor
The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed or The Well Tempered Sentence--by Elizabeth Karen Gordon
On Writing--by Stephen King
Bird by Bird--by Anne Lamott
The Elements of Style--by E.B. White
179 Ways to Save a Novel-- by Peter Selgin
Showing and Telling--by Laurie Alberts
Self Editing for Fiction Writers--by Renni Browne and Dave King
Writing Down the Bones--Natalie Goldberg
REVISION AND SELF-EDITING by James Scott Bell
WRITING THE BREAKOUT NOVEL by Donald Maass
STORY by Robert McKee
THE SUCCESSFUL NOVELIST by David Morrell
FINDING YOUR WRITER’S VOICE by Thaisa Frank
NO PLOT? NO PROBLEM by Chris Baty
FINDING YOUR VOICE by Les Edgerton
TIME TO WRITE by Kelly L. Stone
EATS, SHOOTS & LEAVES: THE ZERO TOLERANCE APPROACH TO PUNCTUATION by Lynne Truss
Contests:
Random House
Lee and Low New Voices
Cheerios Spoonful of Stories
Hunger Mountain
For Kids and Teens:
I.N.K. (interesting nonfiction for kids)
KidPub: books by and for kids
From The Mixed Up Files: For Kids
Word Central
Reading Planet
Smories: must be at least 16 and older to submit stories
Meet The Marks (Right Brain Terrain)
Authors Pages:
Yuyi Morales
Monica Brown
Obert Skye and the Leven Thump Series
The World of Author Cornelia Funke
See blog sidebar for more...
Books for boys:
Guys Read
Guys Lit Wire
List of Authors and Articles
The Worlds Fairy Tales
Pre-K and Elementary:
Tumblebooks
Starfall
Screen Actors Guild Storyline Online
Story Before Bed
Teach With Picture Books
Ollie Bollen Fun Stuff Page
Charlesbridge Free Activities and Downloads
Tiny Readers Wall
Tweens/Teens:
The Stacks
Better @ English
TeenInk
Paper Dolls: book reviews
Reader Girlz
Books and Links for the Young Budding Writer:
Books:
Show Dont Tell: Secrets of Writing
What Authors Do
Author: A True Story
If You Were a Writer
Miss Alaineus
Once Upon a Time
Storybook Travels--by Susan La Tempa
Links
Alliance for Young Artists and Writers
Young Voices Foundation
Stone Soup:The Magazine by Children
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo for all ages)
Hunger Mountain Prize for Young Writers
Young Writers Society
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