In this ground-breaking book, best-selling and award-winning author Nancy I. Sanders shares insider’s tips and explains the secrets to landing a contract before you write one word of your manuscript -- even if you’re an inexperienced or unpublished children’s writer. Whether you’re just starting out or have numerous published credits to your name, Nancy teaches you how to manage your time and focus your energies so that you are writing each day with purpose in order to get published, earn an income, and satisfy your personal fulfillment as a writer. Follow Nancy’s step-by-step instructions, and you, too, can establish the foundation for building a successful career as a children’s writer. Yes! You can.
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This should be required reading for all aspiring children's writers. YES! YOU CAN is like having your own personal writing coach at your side. --Aimee Jackson, Senior Editor, Sleeping Bear Press
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A must-have for any writer trying to build a writing career! I'm recommending it to all my writing students.
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Nancy I. Sanders grew up on a dairy farm in Everett, Pennsylvania, with 5 older sisters and 1 older brother. She spent her childhood days milking the cows, baling hay, and ice skating in the winter. She also spent many happy hours with her nose in a favorite book whether perched high up in an apple tree or floating on a raft in the middle of their pond. Today Nancy loves to write and is the author of over 75 books published with publishing houses both big and small. Now, one of her favorite things is to encourage other writers and help them learn practical strategies to use to build their own successful and satisfying career.
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This book is awesome. It was a real eye-opener to read all the insider secrets to how you can build a successful career as a children's writer from absolute scratch. I used to think the only way to go about selling a story was to write it first, and then look for a publisher. But Nancy's book has taught me how to land a contract first, and only then write the book. She leads you step-by-step through the entire process. And she shows that you don't have to be an established author to do this because Nancy did it herself with her very first book, and her second.... This book has totally changed the way I am going to go about developing my career as a children's writer. And she covers the entire range of children's books: picture books, beginning readers and chapter books, middle grade and young adult fiction, and non-fiction for all ages. There's a page in the book that says she's coming out with more titles in the series, each one focusing on one of the above genres. I can't wait to read them all!
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I've had a modicum of success as a writer (34 educational puzzle books published) and from this perspective can vouch for the fact that Sanders offers excellent advice in her book for both the experienced and beginning writer. She knows the "tricks of the trade" and generously shares them with anybody who wants to build a successful career as an author. She has keen insights into the need for career-oriented writers to focus on the multiple goals of writing for personal fulfillment, writing to get published, and writing to earn income, and she has oodles of concrete suggestions for accomplishing all three. Her strategies of searching for potential book contracts and piggybacking on already successful book series are explained in detail. In addition to all the practical advice, Sanders' book is filled with inspiration and encouragement, so that the reader really does come away with the feeling--Yes! I Can!
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A 366-page compendium of insider information, tips, tricks, techniques, tactics and strategies,
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This review is from: Yes! You Can Learn How to Write Children's Books, Get Them Published, and Build a Successful Writing Career (Paperback)
It is every writer's dream to have their book sold to a publisher before it is even written. But that's no pipe dream! Not with "Yes! You Can: Learn How To Write Children's Books, Get Them Published, And Build A Successful Writing Career". This is a 366-page compendium of insider information, tips, tricks, techniques, tactics and strategies that can be readily adopted by anyone seeking to establish themselves as professional authors and earn their living by writing books for young readers. "Yes! You Can" is more than just a 'how to' instruction manual for beginning children's books authors, it is a combination workshop, seminar, tutorial, professional reference, career guide, and inspiring motivational. Replete with practical, real-world, insights into how publishing works and how writer's can best advantage themselves within the industry, "Yes! You Can" also delves into writing as a business, including such aspects as publicity and marketing. Of special note is the bibliography of recommended professional books for children's writers and a glossary of specialized terms. "Yes! You Can" is especially recommended for anyone aspiring to successfully write and have published books for young readers, and has a great deal of background value for writers in other fields seeking successful publication for their work.
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