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Be a Professional Writer Your Character Counts Too

Be a Professional Writer: Your Character Counts Too

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueFebruary 22, 20232 Comments

3 tips for being a professional writer that editors want to work with in this post from Jan Fields. Take these suggestions to heart and go far in your career!

Submissions - The Search for an Agent

Submissions: The Search for an Agent

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueDecember 1, 20222 Comments

Do I need an agent? What do they do? How do you get one? Are they expensive? Jan Fields answers all these questions and more as you search for an agent.

Submissions Market Guides

Submissions: Why Market Guides Are Your Best Friends

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueNovember 22, 20228 Comments

Use ICL Market Guides as a launching point for your research and find a variety of publishers, what they publish, and their websites for submission guidelines.

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Essential Submissions Tips: How to Write a Synopsis | IFW

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueOctober 25, 20221 Comment

Learning how to write a synopsis of your manuscript can be one of the most intimidating steps of submitting your work—but it’s also one of the most important.

Time to Talk About Submissions for Writers

Time to Talk About Submissions

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueOctober 19, 20228 Comments

Submissions take a lot of courage. In this post, we discuss how to use the skills you learn in writing your book to create targeted submissions.

Online Submissions Two Sites to Make it Easier

Online Submissions: 2 Sites to Make It Easier

Writing for Adults BlogBy Kelli PaniqueOctober 18, 20221 Comment

Online submissions are becoming an industry standard. Let’s explore how Submittable and Query Tracker work and how writers can take advantage of them.

10 Points to Ponder Before You Submit

10 Points to Ponder Before You Submit Your Writing

Writing for Adults BlogBy Kelli PaniqueOctober 4, 20224 Comments

Create a checklist of these 10 tips and review it before you submit your writing. Your submission will be stronger and, more likely successful, as a result.

Introducing Genre Writing

Introducing Genre Writing

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueAugust 16, 20222 Comments

If you can describe your story with genre shorthand, it will help attract the attention of an agent or a publisher. Here’s how to think about genre writing.

Finish The Book

Plan for When You Finish the Book

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueMay 9, 20223 Comments

You finished writing your book. Yay! Now what? Jan Fields helps you make a plan for when you finish the book. You might be surprised at what comes next.

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How to Write a Personal Essay

Writing for Adults BlogBy Kelli PaniqueMarch 22, 20221 Comment

Personal essay writing offers endless opportunities for personal expression and publication. Find out how to write a personal essay that gets noticed.

How to Write a Short Story

How to Write a Short Story That Gets Noticed

Writing for Adults BlogBy Kelli PaniqueMarch 8, 20223 Comments

Short story writing can be fun and rewarding. Karen Hammond shares tips for how to write a short story that will get noticed by editors and readers alike!

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Trade Publishing: Single Book or Series?

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueDecember 16, 20211 Comment

Trade publishing recognizes a simple truth: when selling a series to individual readers, the first book gets the most readers. Jan Fields shares tips for increasing your series odds.

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Planning Ahead for Timely Submissions

Writing for Adults BlogBy Kelli PaniqueAugust 9, 20213 Comments

What’s going to be happening? Victoria Sherrow helps us plan for timely submissions for holidays and commemorative events. Look for new angles into the market.

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Writing for Holidays in Books and Magazines

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueAugust 9, 20215 Comments

Most publishers (including books and magazines) produce some holiday pieces each year. Here’s what you need to know to take advantage of these opportunities.

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244: Industry Insider Tips from Hannah Holt

PodcastBy Kelli PaniqueMay 21, 2021Leave a comment

244: An Interview with Hannah Holt
May 21, 2021

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Why Try Writing for Children’s Magazines?

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueMay 6, 20211 Comment

Why should you try writing for children’s magazines? Let’s look at the benefits of breaking into the magazine market. They just might surprise you!

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Let’s Talk About Now

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueApril 29, 2021Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > April 2021 is almost over and many writers are feeling a little discombobulated. The past year has been challenging, but change is coming, and we have questions. Should we start sending out…

Why entering a contest helps you Episode 240

240: Interview with a Writing Contest Judge

PodcastBy Jacque IrizarryApril 9, 2021Leave a comment

240: How Entering Contests Helps You
April 9, 2021

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Magazine Sleuth: What to Study Before You Write | IFW

Writing for Adults BlogBy Kelli PaniqueMarch 30, 20211 Comment

Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > When people think of writing, they might picture themselves with their hands eagerly curled over the keyboard waiting for inspiration to strike. Then, once the frenzy of inspiration has passed, they hit the save button, and wonder what…

Interview with Talia Benamy Episode 232

232: Editor Insight with Talia Benamy

PodcastBy Jacque IrizarryFebruary 12, 20212 Comments

232: Interview with Talia Benamy
February 12, 2021

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