Writing Irresistible Picture Books

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Thursday
22
May
8:00 pm CDT
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The average picture book is only 600 words long. How hard can that be to write?! This question leads a lot of aspiring authors down the road of the picture book. While picture books are easy and fun to read—they can be extremely challenging to write well! Join me on an exploration of this amazing, engaging, and colorful category of children’s books.

Picture Book Insights
While picture books are easy and fun to read—they can be extremely challenging to write well! Learn all of the category requirements and insider ins and outs.

Insider Perspective
I edit hundreds of picture book projects each year, and have insights on them from a craft perspective, as well as my time as a children’s book literary agent.

Avoid Common Pitfalls
Picture books are very easy to do wrong. In this webinar, I go into insights that will help you stand out in the slush pile and answer common questions, like whether you need to work with an illustrator before you submit.

Who Should Attend
This information-packed, engaging hourlong webinar is for picture book writers in fiction and nonfiction categories. If you can’t make the webinar date and time, don’t worry. Live attendance isn’t required, and you will receive a replay link to watch the presentation on demand, with no expiration date.
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Presentation by
Mary Kole

About Mary Kole
Former literary agent Mary Kole founded Good Story Company as an educational, editorial, and community resource for writers. She provides consulting and developmental editing services to writers of all categories and genres, working on children’s book projects from picture book to young adult, and all kinds of trade market literature, including fantasy, sci-fi, romance, and memoir.
She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and has worked at Chronicle Books, the Andrea Brown Literary Agency, and Movable Type Management. She has been blogging at Kidlit.com since 2009. Her book, Writing Irresistible Kidlit, a writing reference guide for middle grade and young adult writers, is available from Writer's Digest Books.

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1 hour

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