Three (Writing) Reads and a Giveaway

As always Adventures in Children's Publishing has the most AWESOME round up of articles for writers :

Best Articles This Week for Writers 1/14/11

And just a great post on the writing life, a quick read well worth reading :

Jennifer R. Hubbard: Help and Hope


Voice. We hear much of this and we know it is important. It’s “that thing” that jumps off the page and allows you to hear the character, know who they as the story unfolds (even if they don’t know!). I’ve mentioned (I think) that I am switching my middle grade wip to third person. It has more voice now than it did when in first. This got me to thinking about a picture book series of mine-trying to make my mc jump of the page-I thought why not try and switch from THIRD to FIRST? And, you know what...it works. _And_ this is advice I found a couple of months ago in a book on picture book writing. Yeah. It just took some time to sink in. Following is the book and some tips from the Ann’s site.

Writing Picture Books by Ann Whitford Paul
Writing Tips



Giveaway! Another chance to win a copy of Angle Fire...maybe this is the lucky one? Open internationally and you have until Jan. 21


Bewitched Bookworms: Angelfire Review and Giveaway!