Because of this problem, Cook suggests knowing multiple ways to send email. Somewhere on the World Wide Web, there's an answer that is only minutes away. Publishing industry contacts and news. There are several ways to keep track of children's publishing on-line. Researching story ideas.
Search engines are the obvious starting place for researching a story idea.
But don't stop with search engines, use your network of friends. For example, most of the people quoted in this article are part of a private mailing list. Often when I need information, someone on our list has personal experience relating to the topic. After all, they come from Manitoba, Alaska, Florida, New York, Missouri, Texas, Germany, Australia, Italy, and Korea, from backgrounds as journalists, dairy farmers, computer techs, teachers, and politicians, from never published to published over three hundred books. This vast collective experience often comes through for me.