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If you’ve decided to make 2008 the year you finally become a published children’s author yourself, you’ll want to join the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club to get the help you need to do that.

Here’s what you’ll receive as a member of the club:

1. Every month you will be invited to attend a LIVE teleclass with a successful children’s book author and/or illustrator, then you will receive a CD of this recorded event.

You’ll get the “inside scoop” on what it takes to become published in today’s markets.

2. Every Monday morning you’ll also receive an email with a short writing assignment designed to improve your skills in some area of children’s writing.

You can choose whether or not you complete this assignment and turn it in for review.

3. Every week you can submit a children’s manuscript for review. Then, every Wednesday night you can attend a manuscript critique telesession, where you’ll receive constructive comments and suggestions about your manuscript from at least one published children’s book writer.

Your writing career will really start to take off after just a few months in our club.

And, you’ll receive all this help - each and every month - for only $27.00 per month.

But wait, there’s more.

Don’t just take my word for it.

If you’d like a FREE trial membership for the month of January, email [email protected] and put the words, “free trial membership” in the subject area.

Try membership in the CWCC first to see how you like it, without paying a cent. Note: This offer applies to new members only.

But you’d better hurry.

This special offer will only be available today, January 7th. It expires at midnight tonight.

Make 2008 the year you finally DO something to create the writing career you’ve always dreamed of!

See you in print!

Suzanne Lieurance
Founder, Director
National Writing for Children Center

Members of the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club are going to hit the ground running this month with a series of events early in the month.

First, tonight is our weekly manuscript critique telesession at 8:00 central time. It’s good to see at least a few club members are ready to refocus on their writing now after taking time out to enjoy the holidays.

Children’s Author and Speaker Margot Finke

Second, next Wednesday night, January 9th, at 8:00 central time, children’s author and presenter Margot Finke will present a special teleclass for members of the CWCC about how to design and present a super school presentation.

Join the Children’s Writers’ Coaching HERE to take advantage of these exciting events.

Did you realize that most stories written for very young children today are written from a single point of view?

If you’re having trouble finding a publisher for a picture book manuscript, and you’re switching viewpoints with every line, that’s probably one of the reasons your manuscript is being rejected.

This week, members of the Childen’s Writers’ Coaching Club are studying point of view and are practicing writing a story from a single point of view. They are also learning how to start the action of the story on the very first page.

Become a member of the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club and receive this week’s assignment plus an email invitation to this week’s manuscript critique telesession where we actually TALK about what’s working, and what’s not, in every manuscript we critique.

Become a member of the Club TODAY!

Why wait?

Learn the “tricks of the trade” right now to get your career started as a published children’s book author!

Many people want to become published children’s book authors but they just don’t know how to go about it.

Writing for children is different from writing for adults. There’s more to it than simply featuring children in your stories.

Learn the “tricks of the trade” to become a published children’s book author by joining the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club here at the National Writing for Children Center.

For just $27.00 a month you’ll have the opportunity for weekly writing exercises, weekly manuscript critique telesessions, and a monthly hour-long teleclass with a published children’s writer and/or illustrator.

As a member of the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club you won’t need to GUESS at what you should do to write marketable stories and articles for children. You’ll KNOW what you need to do to succeed.

Find out more about the club and join HERE today!

Tonight is our weekly manuscript critique telesession for members of the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club. Each member can submit a manuscript for critique today and then listen as other members give suggestions and comments about it tonight.

This week’s practice writing assignment was to write a short, short story in The Core of Three. So we’ll be going over those, too.

Join the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club for only $27.00 a month and get the help you need to become a published children’s book author yourself.

Find out more about the club HERE.

THE CHILDREN’S WRITERS’ COACHING CLUB (CWCC)

Need help creating your career as a children’s writer and/or illustrator?

OR - do you want to learn ways to make more of the writing and illustrating career you already have?

Then join the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club.

Our club not only helps beginning writers and illustrators learn the tricks of the trade for children’s writing and illustrating, it also helps established children’s writers and/or illustrators learn to market their books, author visits, and even their own writing courses and workshops more effectively.

You’ll work with both published children’s writers and illustrators, and those who want to become children’s writers or illustrators, to create the children’s writing or illustrating career of your dreams.

And the best part is, you won’t ever have to leave your home - so you can enjoy your coaching club sessions in your pjs or bathrobe, if you like. What could be better than that?

Membership - only $27.00 per month

Become a member of the Children’s Writers Coaching Club and attend a live teleclass for children’s writers and illustrators each and every month.

Each monthly teleclass will focus on writing for children and will feature an interview and/or lesson from a published children’s author and or illustrator.

In addition to this live teleclass, members will receive a CDs of the recorded teleclass, so, as a member, you can listen to it at any time and never have to miss the monthly session.

You will also be invited to join a club listserv so you can discuss each month’s teleclass via email. In addition, you will have the opportunity to take advantage of short, weekly writing lessons and exercises for guided practice about some aspect of children’s writing.

Club members are also able to take part in weekly manuscript critique telesessions and submit their manuscripts for professional critique. At least one published children’s book author will critique each manuscript you submit.
Join the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club here.

Last night, author Angela Durden presented an interesting and informative teleclass for members of the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club.

While I was listening, I think I took at LEAST 3 pages of notes. Angela had some exciting ideas for published children’s book authors and for aspiring children’s book authors, as well. Members of the CWCC will receive a CD of this recorded event in their membership packets early next month.

This afternoon at 2:00 central time, Angela will be the guest author on Book Bites for Kids, LIVE on blogtalkradio.com. Listen to the show via your computer to find out about Angela’s exciting series of children’s books called Mike and His Grandpa.Call in during the show to ask a question or make a comment at 1-646-716-9239.

Angela Durden is not only a children’s writer, she is also a fulltime freelance writer. Tonight, she will be our guest speaker for this week’s Writers on Call teleclass for freelance writers. She’ll talk to us about marketing and promoting our writing and writing services.

Members of the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club are invited to a manuscript critique telession tonight at 7:00 CST. Manuscripts must be submitted for tonight’s critique by noon (CST) today.

The really great part about these manuscript critique telesessions is that writers get to TALK to other writers about their work, not simply read comments or suggestions written in the margins of the manuscript.

Join the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club right now and submit your manuscript for tonight’s critique telesession by noon (CST).

Later today, you’ll receive an email with the call in information you’ll need in order to take part in tonight’s session.

Join the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club here.

Be sure to listen to Book Bites for Kids today and every weekday at 2:00 CST on blogtalkradio.com. We have a wonderful lineup of children’s authors scheduled for this week’s shows.

Today’s guest on Book Bites for Kids is Joann Hakala, author of a darling picture book called A Baby Brother! Oh No!

Tomorrow night, Tuesday, October 9th, at 7:00 CST, members of the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club have the opportunity to take part in a professional manuscript critique telesession.

Deadline to submit manuscripts for critique is this afternoon (October 8th).

Join the CWCC today and submit your manuscript for critique this afternoon to take part in this critique telesession.

As a member of the CWCC, you may submit a manuscript for critique once a week.

September membership packets for CWCC members were mailed out over the weekend.

Look for yours to arrive in your mailbox soon if you’re a CWCC member.

Also, be sure to check back here all week for new articles, book reviews, and other information for children’s authors and/or illustrators, parents, and teachers.

Have a wonderful week!

Suzanne Lieurance
Founder & Director
The National Writing for Children Center

October is going to be a busy month for the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club.

We have 5 (yes, five!) special teleclasses planned for members this month.

And, each of these teleclasses will be recorded and members will receive a CD of each recorded teleclass in their membership packets at the end of the month.

Members of the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club also have the opportunity for weekly professional manuscript critiques.

If you want to start your career as a childen’s author, join the CWCC today and take part in each of the exciting events this month!

Every month we offer something new and informative for members of the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club. Come join the fun!

If you’ve been thinking of joining the Children’s Writers Coaching Club (CWCC) here at the National Writing for Children Center, now’s the perfect time to join!

That’s because you can also join our affiliate program.

Then, every time someone becomes a CWCC member through your affiliate link, you’ll earn a 50% commission for that membership.

Even I (who am terrible at math) can figure out that I would only need to have 2 friends join the club through my affiliate link in order to earn enough that my own membership would be basically FREE every month!

And, for every member after the first 2 who join through my affiliate link, I would be “earning money while I learned” about writing for children through the CWCC.

If the cost of membership is prohibitive for you right now, sign up for affiliate program FIRST and promote the CWCC on your website or blog.

Then, once 2 people have become club members through your affiliate link, you can join the club yourself and you’ll basically be getting your own membership FREE.

Our goal is to gain 100 new members for the Children’s Writers Coaching Club in the next few months.

Help us reach that goal while helping yourself at the same time!

Have a wonderful week!

Suzanne Lieurance
Founder & Director
The National Writing for Children Center

We have such a great group of writers in the Children’s Writers Coaching Club here at the National Writing for Children Center. Some are beginning writers, but several are published children’s book authors.

Today, the spotlight is on Coaching Club Member, and our Contributing Teaching Tips Editor, Renee Kirchner.

Renee is a children’s author and freelance writer living in Carrollton, Texas. She is the author of Biomes, a non-fiction chapter book published by KidHaven Press.

Renee has written articles, stories, poems and puzzles for a variety of publications such as FamilyFun magazine, the Dallas Morning News, Sports Illustrated for Kids, Guideposts for Kids, Highlights, and many others. She enjoys writing both fiction and non-fiction for children and adults.Renee holds a bachelor’s degree in Marketing from Texas Tech University and spent ten years at Verizon working in various marketing positions. She is an active member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and served as the marketing coordinator for the North Texas chapter during 2005. Her family and her writing are her life’s greatest passions. Email her about possible writing assignments at [email protected] or read more about her writing at her website.

Here’s What Renee is Working On Right Now:

” I just completed 25 lesson plans for Gryphon House for their upcoming
GIANT Encyclopedia of Lesson Plans. The editors at education.com have asked me to write an article for their back-to-school newsletter. My critique group is helping me edit a collection of poetry for children that I just completed. I hope to send it to publishers in the fall. I also wrote a picture book
manuscript with a children’s librarian this summer and we are getting feedback
from her fellow librarians. Finally, I have sent resumes, writing samples and
proposals to many non-fiction publishers this summer and I am hoping to get a
WFH (write for hire) project very soon.

Here’s What Renee Likes About the Children’s Writers Coaching Club (CWCC):

“I like the CWCC because it helps me stay in touch with my fellow writers.
Writing is largely a solo endeavor and it can become lonely if you don’t have
anyone to talk to about your craft. I especially enjoy receiving the monthly
packets with the cds. I love listening to stories about other writers’
struggles and successes while I am shuttling my children to and from their
activities.

This week’s Children’s Writers Coaching Club member in the spotlight is Donna M. McDine. Donna is a 2007 graduate of the Institute of Children’s Literature, Writing for Children and Teenagers program. She is also a member of the SCBWI.

Using her children, extended family, and their friends as inspiration, she consistently studies the children’s magazine markets for submittal of articles and short stories. Donna also continues to participate in children and young adult writing workshops and critique groups on an ongoing basis to sharpen her writing skills.

Donna enjoys basketball, swimming, and bicycle riding with her family. She also coaches her daughter’s soccer team. And enjoys entertaining at home with her family and friends.

Her publishing credits include:

“What’s Not A Fish, But Is Called A Fish,” July 2007 issue of Stories for Children Magazine.

“Trouble in the Park,” June 2007 issue of A Long Story Short.
“The Creaky Ceiling,” August 2007 issue of A Long Story Short.

“The Worthy Writer’s Conference” – June 2007, The National Writing for Children Center.

“Publication or Rejection, What Will It Be Today,” August 2007, Kid Magazine Writers.

Here’s what Donna is up to right now:

She recently submitted the first three chapters of a middle grade historical fiction manuscript to an agent that requested it at the Writer’s Digest Writer’s Conference in May 2007. In the interim, she continues to fine-tune the remaining chapters of the manuscript.

Donna is a member of Musing Our Children. This group’s focus is to promote
Reading and Writing Appreciation Week – October 15-19, 2007 and throughout the year. For further information, please visit the group’s website at: http://musingourchildren.tripod.com

McDine is also in the process of becoming a booker reviewer of middle grade novels for The National Writing for Children Center.
To learn more about Donna and her writing, visit her blog at http://www.donna-mcdine.blogspot.com or her website at http://www.authorsden.com/donnamcdine

Here’s what Donna says she likes about the Children’s Writers Coaching Club:

“I joined the coaching club in May 2007 and it has been a valuable resource from the start. The critique sessions, the tele-classes and monthly membership materials keep you focused in your writing goals. It has also opened the door in becoming a book reviewer for Middle Grade novels. Suzanne and the group continue to be a constant support system, which is very important in achieving your writing aspirations.”

We’re happy to have Donna McDine as a member of the Children’s Writers Coaching Club. Her writing career is really starting to take off!

If you’ve been thinking of joining the Children’s Writers Coaching Club, now’s the time to do so before our special one month FREE membership offer expires tomorrow.

To join, and enjoy all the benefits of Level 1 membership, at no charge for the first 30 days - click on the link in the right sidebar of this page.

To learn more about the benefits of membership in the Children’s Writers Coaching Club, click on the link that says “join our club” at the top of this page.