10 Wednesday Dec 2025
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Cate Touryan, Christine Van Zandt, Kitty Felde, Margo Sorenson, Patrice Karst, Robert Joseph, SCBWI community, SCBWI members, Sheila Fein
SCBWI loves celebrating our members’ successes and noteworthy news, and there are many! Read on to find out who’s got something to shout about. Digital high-fives welcome in the comments!
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Ben St. James, Delia Ruiz, Jenny Turnbull, Kitty Felde, Lee Wardlaw, Margery J Fain, Marie Chan, Moni Ritchie Hadley, Nell Cross Beckerman, SCBWI community, SCBWI members, Sue Ganz-Schmitt
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Editing Kite Tales has its perks. One is being among the first to see, hear, and be able to use the many uplifting ideas expressed by the blog’s kidlit guests during the year. Another is being one of the first to look back at year’s end and take inspiration anew. Here are some of my favorite 2023 moments gathered up in KT’s traditional list of 10 inspiring quotes. (Plus some extra inspo via the images.) Scroll through. Click through. Catch a thermal current and be uplifted. Thank you to everyone who brought words, pictures, and stories to the blog this year. Thank you to our readers! May you continue to soar in 2024.
Continue reading08 Wednesday Mar 2023
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by Kitty Felde
There is nothing more scary than a blank screen. Starting a new novel from scratch is more terrifying than any roller coaster in any amusement park anywhere in the world.
That’s why I avoid an empty page.
Instead, I’m a great believer in germination. Instead of starting from bare earth, I plant the tiniest of ideas, giving them time to take root and put up shoots. I never know which seeds will fully blossom, but I’m willing to be surprised.
Continue reading17 Wednesday Mar 2021
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by Kitty Felde
Editor’s Note: Host of the award-winning Book Club for Kids podcast Kitty Felde adapted her middle grade novel Welcome to Washington Fina Mendoza to a podcast. The second book in her Fina Mendoza Mysteries series will be out later this year in the summer and she will be available to chat with you on Twitter on Friday, March 26, 2021, from 12PM to 1PM (Pacific Time).
Keep on reading to learn the benefits of adapting your book to a podcast, and some of her tips and tricks for when you do…
Podcasts are everywhere — a record 1.8 million podcasts, according to Edison Research. So why not turn your book into a podcast?
I’m not talking about an audiobook where one actor reads your manuscript word for word. I’m talking about an audio play, like an old-time radio drama, that takes your readers on a literary journey through their ears.
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