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Writers’ Resources I’ve posted a list of them on my website here. -LaVoramlavoraperry.com
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I just updated my website’s Writers’ Resources pages to make it easier to find what you’re looking for–whether it’s an online community, and editor to help you polish your manuscript, or help promoting and marketing your book.
Check it out, here:
http://www.mlavoraperry.com/writers/resources
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From time to time, someone phones or emails me for advice on getting a book published. I’m still a new author myself. But I do know a few things. In this article I’m providing a little bit of the enormous amount of information I learned the sometimes painfully hard and expensive way. You may know a lot of this already, but these tips are for those who don’t…
Clevelanders, Laurie Knowlton, author of 31 picture books, is offering a $125 workshop starting Wednesday, September 17 for writers whose picture books manuscripts are close to the finish line.
Participants will:
Polish manuscripts
Talking about ways to HOOK editors with marketing ideas
Making packets of extended activities to send to schools before vsits
And more!
I’ll be on it around 3pmET tomorrow, Tuesday, September 9, 2008, tune in to hear me live. It’s a BlogTalkRadio program online at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bookbitesforkids. After that, the show will be archived so you can still listen to it.
I’ll be talking about my book Taneesha Never Disparaging and also book marketing and promotion stuff.
The show is hosted by children’s book author Suzanne Lieurance who has a free e-book available for children’s book writers on her website. This link goes to info about my book and the free e-book:
Also, Suzanne’s a founding faculty member of the Writing for Children Center, which offers yet another free e-book for children’s lit writers at http://writingforchildrencenter.com/.
In this video I’m reading from my new book, Taneesha Never Disparging, and blinking–A LOT. Jean Daigneau, Regional Advisor for the Northern Ohio Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), talks about our upcoming conference in Cleveland (Sept. 5-6), too. And she blinks only when necessary…
To read the latest reviews of Taneesha Never Disparaging, go to my website and click “Reviews”: www.mlavoraperry.com.
Details about the N. Ohio SCBWI conference are on my calendar of events which is available on my website’s home page at the “Meet” link.
“I love Taneesha’s struggles. Her problems grow bigger and bigger until they’re ready to burst. The author does a great job of moving the story forward toward its inevitable ending. The characters interact well, and readers will feel Taneesha’s very real frustration when her parents won’t listen to what she’s trying to say or when her friend doesn’t seem to know what’s wrong… this is a book that will resonate with its target audience….The cover art, by honor winning Floyd Cooper, is worth mentioning, as the characters are ready to jump off the cover and tell their own stories.”
-Julie M. Prince, Reviewer for YABooksCentral.com. Read the full review here.
YAY!!!
Buy Taneesha here. (This is my publisher. The book’s available from Amazon, too. But my publisher gives a nice discount. Plus they are very nice folks.)
-LaVora mlavoraperry.com 
