Take it from someone who has received enough rejection letters for ten lifetimes – these are the things you need to know when it comes to Writing Picture Books.
Ann Whitford Paul has learned the hard way what works and what doesn’t. They may be ‘books for people who can’t read’, but there is an art to creating picture books that publishing companies will receive favourably.
An experienced author and UCLA lecturer, Ann covers all the important topics: plotting, structuring, rhyming, opening lines, endings, character development and more. Most crucially, she explains how to become a dispassionate critic of your own work, in order to avoid the common trap of loving or loathing what you write.