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Laura Backes - Picture Book Summit Podcast
December 13, 2022 In Podcast

Podcast – How to Get Out of the Slush Pile: Part 1

Laura Backes - Picture Book Summit PodcastReady to get out of the slush pile? Join us for the first of our three-part series: How to Get Out of the Slush Pile!

Author and Picture Book Summit Co-Founder Laura Backes is first up and speaks on one of the biggest mistakes new authors make: writing poor main characters.

To help you avoid this issue, Laura provides important questions to ask of yourself and your work. Listen in for actionable solutions in creating stories that kids (and industry professionals) will want to read over and over. It’s time to get out of that slush pile!

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Laura Backes - Picture Book Summit Podcast
May 18, 2021 In Podcast

Podcast – Creating Memorable Characters

Laura Backes - Picture Book Summit Podcast

In this episode, Picture Book Summit Co-Founder Laura Backes gives us insight into creating memorable characters for picture books by discussing the cognitive development of kids in the picture book audience. You’ll look at your main characters and how you develop them in a whole new way after this mind-opening episode.

Laura Backes publishes Children’s Book Insider, The Children’s Writing Monthly. Laura and her husband Jon Bard co-own WritingBlueprints.com. She has edited and critiqued thousands of picture book manuscripts. Her credits include Best Books for Kids Who (Think They) Hate to Read (Random House) and articles for Writer’s Digest, The Writer and Children’s Writer’s & Illustrator’s Market. She was also the technical editor of Writing Children’s Books for Dummies. Recently, you may have seen Laura on her weekly Kidlit Distancing Socials.

Check out this whole new perspective on creating memorable characters in ways kids can naturally understand.

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