Here are some tested tips for successfully selling your books at local fairs and festivals.

Digital children's books may present a new opportunity for both known and unknown authors.

Book Review of Ann Whitford Paul's exceptional guidebook for the children's writer: Writing Picture Books, A Hands-On Guide from Story Creation to Publication

The close third person point of view gives readers the intimacy of the first person point of view, while allowing the writer more freedom than the first person POV does.

Some probing questions to help you refine your children's writing goals for 2011.

Book Review of Harold D. Underdown's Publishing Children's Books, Third Edition

We need to have some quiet times between the car chases. Some times of normalcy. Otherwise the car chases feel normal and nothing feels exciting.

There are editors who will skim the first few pages of a manuscript and throw it aside if they see the passive voice because they believe the writer who uses the passive voice must be a novice. So it's important to learn what the passive voice is and how to avoid it.

Great tips for starting the process of promoting your books and your name as an author.

Preparing a mockup (also called a "dummy") of your picture book can help you determine whether your book is commercially viable.