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BookSmitten Kelly J. Baptist, Heather Shumaker, Patrick Flores-Scott, Jack Cheng
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Seeing a hopeful, human world through children's literature. Hosted by authors Kelly J. Baptist, Jack Cheng, Patrick Flores-Scott, and Heather Shumaker – your book smitten crew. We cover the whole range of kidlit, from picture books to middle grade and young adult fiction, as well as writing, reading, and publishing. This season: We’re writing picture books!
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Season 2 Finale with Ann Whitford Paul
The author of Writing Picture Books herself, Ann Whitford Paul, joins us again to help us close out our season. Are we officially picture book authors now?
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Conference Takeaways from SCBWI Marvelous Midwest
Follow along with Kelly and Heather at the SCBWI Marvelous Midwest 2024 Conference in Davenport, Iowa as they gather wisdom from keynotes and attendees, and even glean insight from soup.
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Titles and Critiques
As we inch our way toward finishing our BookSmitten challenge, the crew talks titles and shares pages from their picture book manuscripts.
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Dummies
We’re not dummies … but for this episode we made some! The crew talks about the invaluable experience of making picture book dummies—aka mockups—even for non-illustrators.
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Page Turns and Word Count
The drama. The suspense. The page turns! The crew covers the similarities and differences between creating page turners in novels and picture books, and the tricks and challenges of letting go of our writerly attachments.
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Year-end Reflections
The crew looks back on key lessons from the season so far, what brought them joy in 2023, and whether or not they'll keep writing picture books after this challenge.