Writing for Young People offers insight and advice to aspiring writers and educators on how to set up a writing business and the process of crafting projects centred around young readers.
Delving into important aspects such as workspace organisation, time and money management, and overcoming procrastination, Writing for Young People equips writers and educators with the tools to shape the literary landscape for young people.
This book draws from Hazel’s industry experience and offers essential tips and activities for various genres, including non-fiction, young adult, children’s picture books and educational materials. It covers a range of topics, from crafting book proposals, conducting research and preparing manuscripts.
Spis treści
Introduction
Chapter 1: Preparing to be a writer
Chapter 2: Starting up a business
Chapter 3: Selling a manuscript
Chapter 4: Genres
Chapter 5: Business plans
Chapter 6: Overcoming procrastination
Chapter 7: Working with multimedia
Chapter 8: Commercial scripting
Chapter 9: Educational scripting
Chapter 10: Crafting a story
Chapter 11: Non-fiction
Chapter 12: A good title sells
Chapter 13: Reworking and writing drafts
Chapter 14: Marketing
Chapter 15: Coping with rejection
Chapter 16: Collaborating and ghosting
Chapter 17: Reviews, critics and the media
Chapter 18: Agents and international sales
Glossary: The A to Z of writing for young people
Appendix
O autorze
Educator-author Hazel Edwards has written books for children, teachers and adults. Her best-known publication is the children’s picture book classic 'There’s a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake’ (1980), now a series of picture books, classroom play scripts, a musical stage production and a short movie.