An essential workshop for picture book writers who want create books that are contemporary and saleable in today's market.
Price stated will include $20 presale discount!
Don't Be Left Behind.
On March 21st, learn how to write picture books that speak to today's editors & young readers.
The picture books that were read to us when we were young - and the picture books we may have read to our own children years ago - will always hold special places in our hearts.
But if the picture books you're writing now are following the same structure and conventions of those beloved books of the past, we have some bad news:
You're Not Going to Get Published.
Picture books are an exceptionally dynamic medium, with each generation bringing forth new writing styles and structural changes that continually reinvent the category.
It's time to learn the new way to write picture books.
Join Laura Backes for an exciting look at what constitutes the Modern Picture Book - and how you can start writing contemporary, dynamic manuscripts that get published.
Picture books are a unique and dynamic art form in a near-constant state of reinvention.
Today's picture books have specific ingredients that resonate with modern readers and editors - ingredients that can be quite different from the books we read as children.
Over the past months, Laura Backes has extensively analyzed the work of today's top picture book authors.
She's uncovered 6 key elements that make these books relevant, modern and in-demand.
On March 21st, she reveals what she's discovered, and will teach you how to incorporate all of it into your next picture book manuscript.
Laura Backes, founder & publisher of Children's Book Insider, the Children's Writing Monthly and creator of Picture Book Blueprint.
UNDERSTANDING & USING THE BIG 6
Laura's analysis shows that the big changes in picture book construction involve the way six key elements are employed by today's top authors.
In this webinar you'll learn how to incorporate these essential elements into your own work by:
- Establishing a "common denominator" that links the reader with the book
- Ensuring that your idea is clear, compact, and original—before you begin writing your first draft
- Infusing your book with momentum that creates irresistible page-turns and brings about change in the reader
- Creating "reader-pleasing" beginnings and endings that resonate on an emotional level
- Adding a layer of "performability" to make the words and pictures come alive in the reader's imagination
- Understanding the synergy of words and pictures, and leaving space for each to do their part in creating the whole experience for the reader
These six ingredients are essential, whether you're writing fiction or nonfiction picture books.
On March 21st (with lifetime on-demand replay), Laura will help you understand each of these changes and how to start using them in your manuscripts right now.
Join us for...
How to Write the Modern Picture Book
A Comprehensive Workshop with Lifetime On-Demand Replay & Handouts
Your Instructor: Laura Backes
For more than three decades, Laura Backes has been recognized as one of the top educators in the children's writing field.
Laura is the founder & publisher of Children's Book Insider, the Children's Writing Monthly, and has overseen the publication every month since May, 1990.
She's the creator of Picture Book Blueprint, co-founder of Picture Book Summit and author of Books for Kids Who (Think They) Hate to Read (Random House).
As creator and host of the Kidlit Social webcast, Laura has interviewed many of the picture book world's top authors, illustrators and editors.
Her work has appeared in Writer's Digest, The Writer and numerous other publications.
SAVE $20 ON REGISTRATION RIGHT NOW!
Tuesday, March 21st
From the comfort of your home
- 5 PM (Pacific)
- 6 PM (Mountain)
- 7 pm (Central)
- 8 pm (Eastern)
- Lifetime On-Demand Replay
Price stated will include $20 presale discount!
Important note: This is a writing craft workshop that focuses on the structural and literary changes in picture books, not on cultural or diversity issues.
While these are certainly vital topics, there are good resources devoted to those matters (here's ours). There's nothing else quite like this workshop, in that it focuses on the changing craft elements of the category.
Also, this isn't a "picture book 101" workshop, and assumes at least some basic familiarity with the category.
Tuesday, March 21st (with lifetime on-demand replay):
Discover how to create picture books that are compelling, exciting and truly modern.
Join Laura for a 2 hour workshop that will give you the tools to go from "behind the curve" to current & contemporary.
If you're just starting out as a picture book writer, this webinar will give you a solid foundation for writing a book for today's market. If you've been working on a manuscript and can't quite figure out why it's not selling, this webinar can provide you with the missing ingredients for success.
In this comprehensive class you'll learn:
- How each "Big 6" ingredient works in fiction, narrative nonfiction, and creative informational nonfiction.
- How to identify these elements in today's bestsellers.
- How to stay on top of the everchanging picture book world.
...and most importantly:
- How to incorporate the "Big 6" ingredients into your work.
You'll also get an exclusive PDF handout filled with useful advice and info!
It's going to be an fabulous workshop. So join us on March 21st (with next-day, on-demand replay).
This session is pure instruction, it's complete (nothing more to buy afterward) and nothing additional will be sold.
Your purchase includes a PDF takeaway and lifetime access to the video replay.
WOO-HOO! REGISTER TODAY AND SAVE $20!
The cost for everything is just $47! Like any of our CBI Essentials Workshops, it will be among the best investments you make this year in developing your writing craft and career.
Please note — this special price is only for folks who register now. Once the class takes place and the recording is put up for sale to everyone else, the price will go up to $67.
Even if you can't make it live, buying now will lock you in for the lifetime replay at this one-time-only price.
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Price stated will include $20 presale discount!
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