Oaks From Acorns Grow
Are you feeling “buried” or “planted” when it comes to your writing journey?
What difference does it make?
Choosing Your Mentor Text
As any brave explorer would do before embarking on a journey, it’s important for us as children’s writers to choose a reliable flashlight to help us find our way.For writers, our flashlight is a mentor text. What exactly is a mentor text, you may ask? In a nutshell, it’s a children’s book that you want […]
Fact or Fiction? A Creative Nonfiction Essay by Kathryn Dover
Everyone struggles at some point to distinguish fact from fiction. When you’re a young book-and-movie lover, distinguishing between fact and fiction is a challenge. I didn’t fully understand that movies aren’t real until I was about ten. For years, my brother tried to convince me that Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader in Star Wars are […]
Comic-Book Kids: Finding Chapter Books for Your Graphic Novel Fans
Graphic novels can help spark a love for reading in kids. But when the time comes, how do you find chapter books your graphic novel fans will enjoy?
God Breathed: Book Review by Kathryn Dover
“Isn’t it common for Christians to talk about Jesus with far less interest than we show for our favorite team, music, or food?” (22) If God doesn’t speak to you in any other quote from God Breathed by Rut Etheridge III, He will through this one. At least, Etheridge’s question spoke to me. Think about […]
Get to Know Our New Team Member: Nancy I. Sanders
Meet our new planning team member, Nancy I. Sanders
Handy Resources for the Serious Writer
A writer can never have enough craft books—true or false? True, of course! In that case, I have two for you. The first, Blueprint for a Book is written by Jennie Nash, and the second is The Conflict Thesaurus. Both stellar in helping you flesh out plot and characters.
Young Adult Blog Posts You May Have Missed
Leading up to our YA Master Class on September 18, we published several blogs to help you write young adult books. In case you missed some of them, here they are. Dealing with hard topics in Christian YA fiction by Ellice Wong “As Christian writers who aim to influence and encourage young people in their […]
Dandelion Wishes vs. Prayer
Dandelion Wishes vs. Prayer Dandelions—the bane of many homeowners who strive for manicured lawns. Adults see them as an irritation. A nuisance. But children see dandelions as a source of unlimited potential. Wishes, hopes, and dreams wrapped up in the seeds of a wild flower. When you were a child, did you ever pluck a […]
Beautiful–Truth’s Found When Beauty’s Lost: A Review by Hadassah and Kelila Murdock
Two young adult readers review BEAUTIFUL by Cindy Martinusen-Coloma and share why they recommend it.