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Teach Yourself Writing for Children, In this book, aspiring scribes will find professional insights from authors, agents, and publishers on children's literature from picture-book texts to youth fiction and nonfiction. With comprehensive examples and writing exercises, insider tips on submis, Teach Yourself Writing for Children
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  • Teach Yourself Writing for Children
  • Written by author Allen Frewin Jones, Lesley Pollinger
  • Published by Teach Yourself, 2004/08/01
  • In this book, aspiring scribes will find professional insights from authors, agents, and publishers on children's literature from picture-book texts to youth fiction and nonfiction. With comprehensive examples and writing exercises, insider tips on submis
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Acknowledgements viii
Foreword ix
1 Writing for children: an easy option? 1
How to use this book 2
Exploding some myths about writing for children 4
The importance of children's books 7
Words of encouragement 8
Some considerations 8
2 A professional approach 12
Research 13
Contact with children 22
Conferences, societies and book fairs 25
Publishers' pet hates 28
3 Getting started: the tools of the trade 29
Conveying the message 30
Improving your language skills 32
Tools of the trade 34
Raising funds 38
Creating the space and the time 39
Getting ideas 42
Gathering information and storing it 46
4 Deciding what to write 49
Fiction 50
Non-fiction 54
Faction 56
Language levels and reading ages 56
Language styles 59
Synopses and chapter outlines 62
5 The basics of writing fiction 65
Plotline basics 66
What and why 70
Finding a voice 76
The use of tense 82
Dialogue 85
Grammar 91
Beginning, middle and end 92
Revising 95
Writer's block 99
6 Working with illustrations 102
Overview 103
Illustrated books 103
Things to remember 112
Setting the text 114
Book covers 117
Illustrated non-fiction 118
7 Markets for fiction 119
People who write 120
Types of publishers 122
Where to start 124
8 Non-fiction books 131
Non-fiction and fiction 132
Accuracy 132
Faction 134
Humour 135
Illustrations 136
Obtaining permissions 136
Difficulties 138
The marketplace 138
Educational publishers 143
Publishers' pet hates 143
Co-authoring 144
9 Presentation and submission of work 146
Luck or judgment? 147
The typescript 154
Non-fiction manuscripts 159
The full manuscript 162
Submission letters 163
Some other things to remember 170
Agents 172
10 Dealing with rejection 176
Reader's reports 180
Check your returned package 181
When is it time to rethink? 184
11 Dealing with acceptance 187
The advance 189
Editorial enthusiasm 191
The contract 193
Money! 196
Rights 198
Working with an editor 198
Illustrations 198
Proofs 199
What to do if something goes wrong 201
12 Publication day: what next? 202
Publication 203
Self-publicity and promotion 207
Tax and accounts 209
What next? 210
The bottom line 213
Taking it further 215
Biographies 220
Index 221


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