Writing

In picture books, words and pictures are equal partners. Even if your story is heart-warming, smart, and fun, if you don’t pair it with appealing visuals, readers won’t enjoy it. Normally, it’s [...]

“Standing out” on social media as an author seems a bit overrated to me. It’s a huge effort to be active out there: Have a Facebook account for your friends. Have a Facebook author/artist page [...]

Traditional publishers get thousands of manuscripts every year, and they publish let’s say 20 to 100 titles per year on average. So usually what you’ll get from a traditional publisher is a [...]

Editing is one of the essentials in the book-creating world. Each book has to be edited carefully by a professional  editor—not by the author themselves, nor by a friend who really likes reading. [...]