Resource Thursdays: Alice’s CWIM Blog
For those of you who don’t know about it, Children’s Writer’s and Illustrator’s Market is the guide to publication in the children’s market. This book is an annual publication that details the market and how to get started selling books and illustrations. It has a guide to agents, magazines, and book publishers. The book also has articles and interviews with published authors that remind you that you too have a chance at publication. My husband bought me a copy for the holidays last year, and my book has so many post-its and papers stuck to it that it’s grown half an inch thicker.
This gem is edited by Alice Pope, whose CWIM Blog is one of my favorite sites to browse. Her site is just as informative as the book, often including tidbits about publishers and agents that didn’t make it into the book due to limited space. The site has blogger interviews, publishing trends, agent bios, conference updates, information about award winners, and just plain fun things. If you love children’s books and want to learn about the industry, Alice’s blog is a must.
Filed under Resource Thursdays | Comment (0)BIC HOK TAM – It hurts so good
My friend, the fabulous YA writer Edith Cohn, recently wrote on her blog that sore-butt syndrome is usually the result of high writing productivity. Butt-In-Chair-Hands-On-Keyboard-Typing-Away-Madly (BIC HOK TAM) is a favorite writer’s motto that explains the only way to get things done is to sit down and do them. The past couple of days have been the rear-end aching kind of days for me, and this is a good thing. Yesterday I spent nine hours at UCLA taking class, reading, and writing. The majority of these nine hours were spent in those terribly uncomfortable chair/desk combos so often found in institutions of higher education. Yes, those chairs are functional and save space, but no one can walk after sitting in them for two or three hours straight. Seriously, you lose all feeling below the waist. But I digress. The good news about all this sitting time was that between getting my homework done for a super-packed course load, I got in some good book writing. I went to jot down one quick sentence and ended up with three pages of material. Gotta love the flow state. So the productivity? Definitely worth the ache!
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