My eight year son received at least six books for the holidays this year. He also received a DS. With the DS came a letter from Santa with general guidelines (parental approval of chores) and some rules (twenty min max at a time). His parents bend the rules slightly when convenient, such as a long [...]

Waiting for the print-publishing world to settle down and start buying again a a real downer. You can start to spend way too much time trying to read the minds of editors and publishers. You wonder if you should change your style. Switch subjects? Do a complete rewrite of the manuscript you love?  And surely [...]

Earlier this month I shook off my summer inertia, hopped a Metro-North train, and hied myself to NYC to attend a jam-packed, standing-room only panel discussion on “What’s Hot and What’s Not: Trends in Children’s Book Publishing,” sponsored by the Children’s Book Committee of the Authors Guild. The panel was made up of : Kim [...]