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SCBWI Community Corner with Patrice Karst: Learning About Kid Lit After Becoming a Best-Seller

15 Wednesday Nov 2017

Posted by Sarah Parker-Lee in Community Corner

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Patrice Karst, SCBWI community, SCBWI members, The Invisible String

By Patrice Karst

I fell into the children’s publishing world by accident.

Doing well with my first two adult books, God Made Easy and The Single Mother’s Survival Guide, I had sold 70K copies combined and was a popular speaker in the self-help, spiritual, New Age world. But I was also a single mom to my special needs son.

Elijah was so sad when I had to leave him in the mornings, I began telling him about an “invisible string” that connected us all day long. It so comforted him that we told his other friends. When I saw the calming effect, I thought, why not “put story to paper?” Continue reading →

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