Join us on Saturday May 22nd at 4 PM for a special LIVE (and Recorded) interactive webinar!

Never a Dull Moment
In Your Kidlit Writing or Artwork

Among other not-dull aspects of writing and illustrating wonderful and marketable children's books that kids will love, we'll be providing lessons on:

• How to get the drama out of your life and onto the page
  
• How to create surprise and drama
• How to control pacing with text and images
• The power of page turns
• The beauty of controlled chaos
• Cultivating humor through words and images
• Eliciting emotion​

This incredible webinar is going to be co-taught by the amazing faculty of the upcoming The Craft & Business of Illustrating Children's Books.

Dr. Mira Reisberg is a multi-published award-winning children's book illustrator and author whose books have sold over 600,000 copies. Besides running the Children's Book Academy, she is also an acquiring Editor and Art Director at Clear Fork Publishing's children's book imprint Spork. Mira is also a former children's literary agent, and a university professor who taught kid lit writing and illustrating courses as well as teacher ed. She has a PhD in Education and Cultural Studies with a focus on children's literature and has helped MANY writers and illustrators get published. Her job at Spork allows her to help even more people (although of course she can't guarantee that everyone will get published, many of her former students have).

Red Fox Literary Agent Kaitlyn Sanchez loves working with both author-only, and author-illustrators, as well. She particularly enjoys character-driven, concept, and creative new format ideas for fiction. Kaitlyn connects with poignant, lyrical writing (rhyme and non-rhyme) as much as laugh out loud humor, and of course, the best are those magical books that mix humor and heart. She also enjoys nonfiction STEAM books and super interesting picture book biographies, especially ones about underrepresented people. Kaitlyn is an editorial agent who works with her clients to optimize their chances for a long, strong and happy career. In her free time, she plays soccer, binge-watches shows on Hulu, and, of course, reads. Kaitlyn's LOVES picture books! Especially when she and her husband and daughter all cozy up and read together. Her blog on this website consists of her original pieces, reviews, contests, and author interviews!

Chantelle and Burgen Thorne are internationally published illustrators with over 25 years experience in publishing. Avid bookworms, they take great delight in the visual storytelling of picture books, art and text working together, every word and every image adding to the reader’s experience. Both have fond memories of being read to as children and this inspires them to make their illustrations as engaging, honest and relevant to young readers as they possibly can! Chantelle and Burgen took this course 3 years ago to help move from Work for Hire Educational publishing to Trade publishing, which pays better and allows more creative freedom. Since then they have illustrated and published seven trade books and their careers are zooming! Including all their education work, Chantelle and Burgen have published OVER ONE THOUSAND CHILDREN'S BOOKS and have tones of experience, wisdom, skills, techniques and heart to share.

Here are some of Chantelle & Burgen's recently published trade works:

These four amazing co-teachers will help guide and inspire you on your kidlit writing and illustrating journey in really fun and insightful ways - all for only $20.