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News from the Internet: Whatpad? Nope! Wattpad by Ronna Mandel

30 Wednesday Sep 2015

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Wattpad is billing itself as the world’s largest community of readers and writers by putting over 100 million stories at your fingertips. Once you go online and begin your own search on the site, you’ll understand why Wattpad is not to be ignored. It’s like an Internet potato chip for readers because you may find it impossible to stop after devouring just one story. I know because that’s what happened to me. Fortunately it’s fat-free!

I asked Catherine Linka, author of A Girl Called Fearless and its sequel, A Girl Undone, to give us the inside scoop on this popular online community. She dove into Wattpad waters way before many other authors, and her experience might encourage you to take a dip.

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Great News! & Classes

09 Wednesday Sep 2015

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Kite Tales loves to celebrate our SCBWI members. Congratulations to all listed below!

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Christine Brallier’s picture book illustrations have been featured on Julie Danielson’s blog, Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast (http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=3610). Christine is a stained glass mosaic artist and the post shows the mosaic process in detail, from first sketch to final artwork. She was also recently interviewed by Kathy Temean on her blog, Writing and Illustrating (https://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2015/01/10/illustrator-saturday-christine-brallier/), and her illustrated book, The Night Before Christmas, was featured at Fuse #8 Productions where Betsy Bird said it was “one of the most beautiful Christmas children’s books I’ve ever seen.” Wonderful press for a self published book!

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News from the Internet: From Children’s Book to Children’s App: Three Helpful Web Articles To Get You Started On Creating An App by Narda Lacey Fargotstein

03 Wednesday Jun 2015

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1) Whether you have an idea for an app or are looking for an idea, you can start at iKids with this article—http://kidscreen.com/2013/09/09/how-to-make-a-childrens-app/—which breaks down the process of creating an app into five steps:

  • Competitive analysis
  • Design and testing methodologies
  • Finding a developer if you can’t build it yourself
  • Business models
  • Marketing

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News from the Internet: Keeping Up with the Publishing Industry by Narda Lacey Fargotstein

11 Wednesday Mar 2015

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One great thing about the Internet is that you can subscribe to newsletters from the sites you like to visit, for free. Once you subscribe, their newest issues show up automatically in your email. You can create folders in your email to file the issues as they appear, so you can look at them later. You don’t even have to remember the URL or remember to look at your favorites. They just send them to you.

If you are ever stuck for ideas, these newsletters seem to arrive just in time with the solution to your story problem, or to jog your memory for a new story.

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Common Core and Children’s Book Writers by Karen Sampson

11 Wednesday Feb 2015

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Schools need more books! Wouldn’t it be great if they had them? According to Daniel Rios, a tenured teacher of over 10 years and now Operations Administrator of the new charter school CALSTEAM in Encino, that idea is the very “core” of common core. With a focus on language and facts, literature becomes the best stage for teachers to develop focused and engaging lesson plans. Daniel_Rios_Common_Core_1

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Great News! & Classes

14 Wednesday Jan 2015

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Audible has purchased the rights to do audio books of the YA speculative fiction novels A Girl Called Fearless and its sequel A Girl Undone by Catherine Linka.

Alexis O’Neill’s newest picture book, The Kite That Bridged Two Nations, received a Eureka! Honor Award for Children’s Nonfiction Books at the fall conference of the California Reading Association.

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