Podcast – Pacing and Shorter Texts with Katie Davis

How is pacing in picture books different today from the books you read growing up?

Author Katie Davis spells out why pacing is important in picture book manuscripts and why it’s different in today’s market from some of your childhood favorites. In this episode, Katie analyzes pacing examples in some of her favorite picture books and reveals various methods for achieving excellent pacing in shorter texts.

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Check out these other podcast episodes from Katie Davis:

• Generating Ideas
• Positive Procrastination
• Your First 1,000 Readers

Don’t miss Katie’s awesome presentation on picture book research: Digging for Diamonds: Using Research to Make Your Writing Sparkle!

If you equate research with dry facts and figures or think it’s limited to nonfiction, you may be in for a surprise. Bestselling author-illustrator and ICL Director Katie Davis shows you how much fun research can be and how to use it to make your writing sizzle and your characters come alive.

This workshop contains a 55-minute video with Katie Davis sharing why research is important for fiction as well as nonfiction and how research can bring depth to your story, plus real-life examples of how research (or lack of it) can take your book off the rails.

Includes lifetime access, transcript, slides, and Katie’s handout, full of resources to start your research.

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