Revision is a holistic view of your work, not the fine details of editing. Here's some suggestions to keep writing when temptation to revise is too great.

The second of a three-part set of workshops, Emma identifies ten tools and techniques to help writers tackle revisions of their manuscripts.

Kid's Book Revisions Plus: workshops, webinars, and other events available for children's book writers.

Join Publisher, Julia Recko, from Feeding Minds Press to learn picture book writing basics as well as what Feeding Minds Press is currently looking for in a manuscript. This will be recorded and sent ...

Future Claude models will generate text that contains a watermark. This is a way of determining the likelihood that Claude was involved in writing the text, and we, along with several other major AI p...

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The second of a three-part set of workshops, Emma identifies ten tools and techniques to help writers tackle revisions of their manuscripts.

YA graphic novel This Place Kills Me by Mariko Tamaki and Nicole Goux earned two awards.

The first of a 3-part set of workshops, each featuring a key insight related to writing and revising.

An excerpt from a 2.5 hour workshop presented by Emma Dryden, freelance editor and former Publisher of Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Q: My middle grade novel is complete at 250,000 words, and have five sequels planned which will each be approximately the same length. I kn...

Please join us this summer for any or all of our second series of six KBR+ Hangouts!

Targeting Southern Poverty Law Center, a major racial justice group, is Trump’s latest effort to punish groups for their views.

Crud free enthusiasm.

This essay was written for the print only periodical, THE APPROACH, in Fall of 2025 and has been republished here with their permission.

The lethal devices used to kill coyotes and other predators were banned from federal lands in 2023.

Children’s authors and educators are up in arms after words by National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Mac Barnett, from his new essay collection for adults, 'Make Believe: On Telling Stories...

In “Facts and Fiction: Stories Stripped Away by Book Bans,” PEN America’s Freedom to Read team reports on “a surge in the banning of nonfiction titles” and an erosion of civil rights in public...

Middle grade author Chrystal D. Giles reflects on how her own experience of sexual harassment in middle school inspired her new novel, 'Listen to the Girls.'

Some are calling for the ousting of the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, who wrote in his new book that “94.7 percent of kids’ books are crud.”

Explore why writers are burning out and discover ways to navigate the creative challenges that lead to this issue.

It's been a while since we've done a legitimate honest-to-goodness folktale on this podcast. They were once the lifeblood of children's libraries, and these days they are rare gems. Discover an older ...

Meta intends to add facial recognition technology to their glasses so anyone wearing the product can immediately and invisibly identify strangers. Tell Meta: Your glasses shouldn’t know our names. Demand privacy protections today.

Ellen Rudin, respected children’s book editor and executive at various New York City publishing houses, died March 18 in Silver Spring, Md. She was 92.

Recently, collaborators paid a visit to iconic NYC locations, an author gave back for Earth Day, authors under the same publisher kicked off a series of book crawls, and an author celebrated her debut.

Dozens of Democrats in the Republican-controlled US House of Representatives helped pass a key spying bill, which faces an uphill battle in the Senate.

A survey of AI usage among North American book professionals, conducted by BISG and BookNet Canada, found that just under half of respondents use various AI tools despite deep concerns, particularly around...