This book examines school and library visits for children's authors and illustrators, including organizing school tours, maximizing book sales, and creating presentations, workshops, and residency programs.These details are also included in The Children's Writer's Guide, which examines how you can get started as a writer, create time and space to pursue your craft and deal with lack of motivation and writer's block. Topics covered include where ideas come from and how writers turn them into stories, choosing appropriate names for characters, the importance of historical research if your novel is set in a different era, writing science fiction and fantasy, the use of magic in stories for children, the role of editing and revision, how to deal with rejection, and marketing and promotion. Simon Rose is the author of The Alchemist's Portrait, The Sorcerer's Letterbox, The Clone Conspiracy, The Emerald Curse, The Heretic's Tomb, The Doomsday Mask, The Time Camera, The Sphere of Septimus, Future Imperfect, the Flashback series, the Shadowzone series, The Stone of the Seer series, An Untimely Death, and The Order of Excalibur novels. Simon is also the author of The Children's Writer's Guide, The Time Traveler's Guide, Where Do Ideas Come From? and many non-fiction books on a wide variety of topics.He works as a writing coach, consultant, and editor for authors in all genres and for all age groups, has served as the Writer-in-Residence with the Canadian Authors Association, is a writing instructor at the University of Calgary, a story coach for the Alexandra Writers' Centre Author Development Program, an assessor for grant programs with Calgary Arts Development, conducts writing classes and workshops both in person and online, provides programs for schools, and offers a range of writing services for the business community including website content, social media postings, and copywriting.Full details can be found on his website at www.simon-rose.com.
