Houston, Your Manuscript Has a Problem
Tips for critiquing your work-in-progress, finding critique groups, and polishing your story.
You’ve seen presentations about great picture book beginnings. You’ve seen them about effective endings. But a truly great picture book relies on the connection between the two. Emma Walton Hamilton and Julie Hedlund show you how to launch topflight stories and navigate them to stellar endings.
Your purchase includes lifetime access to the 1-hour video, a handout, and a transcript of the full presentation—PLUS a recording of the 1-hour follow-up Q & A!
"This has been awesome in allowing us to see the beginnings
of your books and how they evolved to the final product!! Very informative!!
Thank you!!"
- Melanie Conrad
Your Instructor
Katie Davis is an award-winning writer/illustrator whose published work includes kidlit genres from picture books to middle grade to young adult. Her first picture book, Who Hops? turns 24 this year, and Kindergarten Rocks! has been a perennial favorite since 2005. Katie critiques manuscripts twice a month through her Writers’ Block membership, and is the former Director of the Institute of Children’s Literature and Institute for Writers. Her books have sold over a million copies and her two guides for writers, How To Promote Your Children’s Book and How to Write a Children’s Book, both debuted at #1 on Amazon.
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"Fantastic presentation! Great, helpful ideas, and I loved Julie and Emma's breakdowns of their own books."
- Sarah Floyd
"Wow! So much awesomeness packed into this presentation. So
thankful I can watch the replay!"
-Patricia Nozell