Today I'm delighted
to welcome my good friend, author Karen King to my blog.
Living only about 25
miles away from each other, we often go to writing events together,
and we run a double whammy schools Author Visit project which we call KAT.
This stands for Kids and Authors Together. It also, incidentally, stands for Karen and Ann Together!
Karen
has had around a hundred and twenty children’s books
published. She’s also written for many children's magazines
including Jackie, Sindy, Barbie, Winnie the Pooh and Thomas
the Tank Engine. She writes for all ages and in all genres; story
books, picture books, plays, joke books and non-fiction. As well as
her children's books, she has written some short stories for women’s
magazines and has had two romance novels published under the name of
Kay Harborne.
There's so much to
say about Karen. She has a BA with the Open University, a Certificate
In Education, a HNC in Media and many years of experience as a
writing tutor. She was a part time lecturer on the MA in Professional
Writing course and the BA Illustration course at the University
College, Falmouth for many years, where she also ran Summer Schools
on writing for the children's market.
She has tutored
online for the TrAce Online Writing School, and via correspondence
for the Open College of Arts. She now tutors creative writing for
Worcestershire County Council, the Writer's Bureau and the London
School of Journalism. Her latest accreditation is Patron of Reading
in her home town of Worcester. She also offers private writing
tuition and a manuscript appraisal service. Details are on her
website.
With so much
experience in writing under her belt it's not surprising that one of
her latest books is her extremely useful - Get Writing:
Children's Fiction. The perfect handbook to help you break into
writing for children.
Cover
blurb
The
aim of this book is to get you writing. It's full of inspiration,
tips and writing exercises for anyone who wants to write children's
fiction. Included are tips from other published writers, useful links
and answers to questions you've always wanted to ask.
Get Writing: Children's Fiction includes
chapters on:
Know-how: the difference between writing for children and writing for adults.
How to get ideas for your stories from your family, your work and your life - and how to expand those ideas.
Creating believable characters children will love reading about.
Writing by the seat of your pants, or plotting? Basic things you need to know for either approach.
Writing realistic dialogue.
Writing the first draft
How to create 'reel them in' beginnings, sustain the pace in the middle, and write satisfying endings.
How to write page-turning chapter endings; keeping continuity when writing series.
Writing for the educational market.
Writing a synopsis and a proposal.
Submitting your work to a publisher or agent.
Dealing with rejects and rewrites.
Publicity and marketing.
Publishing your own work.
Get
Writing: Children’s Fiction
Is your head full
of children's stories?
Will they make a
book?
Karen
King's, Get Writing: Children’s Fiction, is out now to help
you break into writing for children.
Buy Links
Author
Links
Website:
www.karenking.net
Author
Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/?ref=tn_tnmn&__adt=7&__att=iframe#!/KarenKingAuthor
Amazon
Author Page:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Karen-King/e/B0034P6W7I/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0
Good
Reads page: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/74448.Karen_King
Thank
you, Karen.
Please
visit my website: www.annevansbooks.co.uk
