I have posted Margot Finke's October Musings column, called "Writing Books for Children: The Details Count." As are many of her columns, this is a pithy look...
I've recently revised some pages around the site. There are several updates on the Who's Moving Where page. I have also revised my Primer on Agents and added...
Margot Finke's new November Musings "Writing Great Characters and Dialogue" is now up on The Purple Crayon. Details of the Kindling Words for 2005 are now...
The National Book Awards have just been announced. So I've updated the Award-Winning Children's Books page at http://www.underdown.org/awards_2002.htm to...
I have put Margot Finke's December "Musings" column online. It's called "Children's Writers: Who Mentors Them Today?" This is the first part of a three-part...
If you're lucky and have not been exposed to the latest hyped trend on the Internet, a blog, short for "web log," is a running commentary on. . . something. ...
I've put up some new news about editors moving, plus business news (Bloomsbury buys Walker Publishing) at http:www.underdown.org/chchange.htm . And Margot...
I've added another installment to the blog, for a total of three so far, and created an index page. You'll find it at http://www.underdown.org/blog.htm The...
The 2005 ALA awards have been announced. Newbery Medal: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata Caldecott Medal: Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes These and the...
Margot Finke has completed her three-part series on mentoring and critique groups for writers with a column on Starting a Critique Group. You can find a link...
I haven't been able to work on the site for the past few weeks, but some not-very-happy news from Penguin got me to update the "Who's Moving Where" page: ...
I've updated my comments on the Penguin layoffs on the Who's Moving Where page, at http://www.underdown.org/chchange.htm and added some Simon and Schuster news...
I've done an update to the Resource List from my Complete Idiot's Guide, adding a book on contracts and one on writing groups, and revising a few entries. Look...
Barbara Cohen's Getting the Word Out: Marketing Children's Books is a useful guide to the basics in an area I hadn't covered before on The Purple Crayon, and...
I'm excited to be publishing a fascinating case study of a story's evolution from family story to a published book, in Amy Timberlake's three-part essay,...
More to come soon, but for now, lots of bits of news on the Who's Moving Where page, at http://www.underdown.org/chchange.htm And a new installment of my blog,...
The latest installment of my blog covers a variety of topics: re-submitting a manuscript, citing sources, Lane Smith's $600,000 book, non-profit and...
I have several bits of news: 1) I've updated the Who's Moving Where page with some news about several editors, including Cecile Goyette, Rachel Nugent, and Tim...
I've been busy but have finally been able to catch up on some materials for the site. I'm pleased to have a substantial interview with James Deem about both...
I'm pleased to be able to post the first in what I hope will be a semi-regular series of columns on legal issues by Kohel Haver, originally published in the...
I'm back from the SCBW-I national conference. While I was there I took part in a panel discussion called "How's the Weather? The Current Climate for...
I am starting to catch up from a busy summer. There's much more on my list, but here are some new things at the site. As always, go to the What's New page at...
Somehow the updated Blog index page, with a link to the October installment, did not get uploaded last night. Until it is, here is a link directly to the new...
It's taken a while, but my long-planned reorganization is now completed! The main change is that I've broken up the Articles page into several sub-categories...
Here is what's new. As always, you'll find links to all these pages on the What's New page, which you'll find a link to from the left column of the Home Page. ...
I've added two articles by Chris Tugeau, artist's rep., to the illustrating section. The first one, The End of the Line: Why Repped Relationships Fail, is a...
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