Children's writer guide to 2006
By: [edited by Susan M. Tierney]
Publisher: Writer's Institute Publications
Published: 2006
Place of publication: West Redding, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9781889715285
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: MARKETS: Book publishing: the alchemy of concocting the list / Pegi Deitz Shea; title: Magazine publishing: magazines make it in the digital world / Lizann Flatt; title: From editors' lips to your ears: a revealing list of picture book favorites / Judy Bradbury; title: Emerging needs: writing for early readers / Pamela Holtz Beres; title: The specialty of middle-grade writing / Marjorie Haverstock; title: Fantasy makes anything possible / Mark Haverstock; title: History in the works: truth & fiction / Jan Burns; title: Stage, page, or cinima? Choose the best venue for your plot / Christina Hamlett; title: News of the year / Heather Burns-DeMelo; title: STYLE & SUBSTANCE: Characters, silver spoon or wrong side of the tracks? / Kristi Collier; title: Thou shalt not moralize / Katherine Swarts; title: Story structure, four-part harmony / Christina Hamlett; title: Audience, hit the target with nonfiction / Josanne Mattern; title: Word choice for bricks, syntax for mortar / Susan Sundwall; title: Language: let's get logical / Cindy Rogers; title: End of story / Christina Hamlett; title: CAREER: Editors & writers, where do I go from here? / Leslie Davis Goccione; title: The literary  contract & you / Robert Brown and Sharene Martin; title: Break with tradition & self-publish / Katherine Swarts; title: Time management, how to get your writing done without driving yourself crazy / Suzanne Lieurance; title: A writer's library/ Joanne Mattern; title: Publicity, biog day afternoon: promoting your work / Mark Haverstock; title: IDEAS: Got ideas?  Authors on the idea hunt / Mark Haverstock; title: Recycle research to rethink & resell ideas / Lizann Flatt; title: Idea generators: a compendium of the unusual / Louanne Lang; title: RESEARCH: Build a well-rounded bibliography / Leslie Wyatt; title: At the source: field research / Carolyn Yoder; title: Cook up a great interview / Leslie Wyatt; title: Digging into local history / Mary Northrup; title: Play ball!  Researching sports / Lisa Harkrader; title: CONFERENCES & CONTESTS: SCBWI Conference Report, add light to your junk / Judy Bradbury; title: The call, the award, the writing life / Joan Broerman; title: Conferences devoted to writing for children; title: Conferences with sessions on writing for children.