64 SUCCESSFUL CHILDREN'S AUTHORS GIVEYOU
THE ADVICE
THEY WISH SOMEONE HADGIVEN
THEM
Imagine being pulled aside by a successful children’s
writer. She knows you’re embarking upon the same journey she is on,
and she’s decided to share with you her absolute best advice for the
trip. She’ll tell you of her greatest mistakes, of her most
important lessons and of her true sources of inspiration.
Then she whisks you into a room where 60 more
published authors are ready to do the same.
When your head stops spinning, you realize that you
are now privy to information that few writers have ever obtained.
Advice that will stay with you for a lifetime. Advice you will,
perhaps, someday pass on to another fellow sojourner.
The concept behind this ebook is simple. We asked
published children's authors to complete these paragraphs:
When I Started, I Wish
Someone Had Told Me:
The Best Advice I Ever Got
Was:
The Biggest Mistake I Ever
Made Was:
The Most Important Thing A
Writer Can Do To Achieve Success Is:
I Really Need To
Tell You This:
More than 60 authors opened up and shared their
thoughts with us. Some are touching, some are funny, some are true
nuts & bolts. But all of the responses are truly inspirational.
See for yourself! Take a moment to check out
this exclusive video preview:
We guarantee you'll find this
ebook a
real inspiration -- and the
perfect guidebook for your own personal journey to success.
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Here's a tiny taste of what you'll
find in I Wish Someone Had Told Me That!
Cindy Kenney - The Best Advice I Ever Got: Don't take
rejection personally. Editors are people, too. They come with all
sorts of opinions, just like anyone else. Just because one or more
don't like what you wrote, it doesn't mean someone else won't. Your
manuscript could be viewed by an editor on a bad day, by an editor
who doesn't feel well, or the publishing house may simply not have a
need for the type of book you presented. Unfortunately, they don't
always give you that feedback when they return a rejection notice.
Ian Irvine - I Really Need to Tell You This: To become a
successful children's writer you have to catch your readers'
attention by the end of the first paragraph, and then hold it. If
your readers get down two paragraphs and haven't found anything
intriguing enough to make them want to read more, you've failed. So
start your story in the very first sentence, and by the end of the
paragraph you need to have introduced a character who has a problem
that he or she has to do something about. This arouses your readers'
curiosity and concern: will the protagonist succeed or will she
fail, and what happens then? Go on from there, maintaining your
readers' interest and concern by continually giving your
protagonists difficulties, dangers to overcome, things to worry
about, problems to solve, mysteries that arouse curiosity, and so
forth, all the way to the end of the book.
Deborah Gates - I Really Need to Tell You This: Getting
something published is exasperating. It seems to take forever. It
wreaks havoc with your emotions and tests your ability to stay true
to what you believe in writing. Yet it is what we all long for, and
continue striving for. The thrill of finally seeing your creation,
bound and by-lined, sitting on a bookstore shelf is topped only by
having a non-relative tell you how much they enjoyed the story.
Whatever you do, keep trying.
Edith Tarbescu - When I Started, I Wish Someone Had Told Me: Never
send out only one copy of a manuscript unless the publisher asks for
an exclusive submission. And inform an editor if the manuscript is a
multiple submission.
Glynis Belec - The Best Advice I Ever Got: "Cut it
down by half and leave nothing out!"
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