LEA MARYANOW

Guest Blog Post by Abi Cushman When I set out to write Wombats Are Pretty Weird in 2018, I knew I wanted the book’s primary focus to be...

Guest Blog Post by Laura Zimmermann Mushroom Rain began with a story that had nothing to do with rain and everything to do with Beatrix...

Guest Blog Post by Lisa Rogers I was a daily news reporter for 10 years before becoming an elementary school librarian, so I thought I...

Guest blog post by Christine Evans To tell the truth, I didn’t know what I was doing when I started writing my picture book biography,...

Guest blog post by Gabi Snyder Gabi Snyder is the author of LOOK, illustrated by Samantha Cotterill and published by Simon &...

Guest blog post by Viviane Elbee Viviane Elbee is the author of I WANT MY BOOK BACK published by Little Bee Books in 2022. You can order...

Guest Blog Post by Megan Woodward You can preorder THIS BOOK IS DEFINITELY NOT CURSED here. A lot of what I changed from earlier drafts...

Guest post by Charlotte Offsay You can order THE QUIET FOREST here. Each of my books has had its own unique journey from draft to...

In today's post we learn about the evolution of Chana Stiefel's picture book Bravo, Avocado. You can order BRAVO, AVOCADO! here. Chana...

Guest blog post by Vivian Kirkfield You can order Vivian's books here. No matter the genre, all successful books need these three...

Guest blog post by Nancy Churnin You can order THE WILLIAM HOY STORY here. This is from my 2013 draft of my first book, The William Hoy...

Guest post by Kirsten W. Larson You can order WOOD, WRE, WINGS here. Evolution of an Opening: Tracing the Revisions of Wood, Wire, Wings:...

by Lea C. Maryanow (NO AI TRAINING: Any use of this blog post to “train” generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to generate...