Mindy Hardwick, Children’s Writer www.mindyhardwick.com

…How to Successfully Publish Your Writing

What is your purpose for publishing?

Who is your audience?

What type of market will be a successful match for your story?

Books are printed in small runs of one or two at a time

A fee might be charged—read the fine print.

Some of the services include packages such as; editorial, marketing and publishing

Books can be ordered from Amazon along with some bookstores such as Third Place Books who are including POD machines in their stores

Create Space: www.createspace.com

Lulu.com www.lulu.com

IUniverse.com www.iUniverse.com

Xlibris www.xlibris.com

E-zines seeking young writers and illustrators

Stories for Children http://storiesforchildren.tripod.com ZUZU http://www.zuzu.org/write.html

Launch Pad: http://www.launchpadmag.com

Columbia Kids—WA State ezine needs young people to write book reviews.

http://columbia.washingtonhistory.org/kids/Spring2009/pdfs/bookSwapS09.pdf

Stone Soup http://www.stonesoup.com

New Moon: http://www.newmoon.com Magazine for girls ages 8-14

Teen Ink www.teenink.comPublishes articles, short stories (teens)

Funds for Writers—Kid Writer http://www.fundsforwriters.com/writingkid.htm

The Scriptorium Young Writer’s Pagehttp://www.thescriptorium.net/youth.html

Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI)

http://www.scbwi.org (National)http://www.scbwi-washington.org (local)

Young Writer’s Projecthttp://youngwritersproject.org/

Pacific Northwest Writer’s Associationhttp://www.pnwa.org

A Teen’s Guide to Getting Published. Jessica Dunn and Danielle Dunn. Prufrock Press

The Young Writer’s Guide to Getting Published. Kathy Henderson. Writer’s Digest Books.

Children’s Writer and Illustrator’s Market 2010. Alice Pope. Writer’s Digest Books

Research the best place to send your manuscript

Read all directions carefully! Each place will have different submission requirements.

Follow the correct format for manuscript submissions

This is a story about…(the theme)

It starts when…

My character wants…

But…

And finally…

Girl on a Thin Wire Fourteen-year-old Jasmine adores her father

and wants to be an artist just like him. But, when Dad suddenly abandons the family in order to pursue his art, Jasmine must decide is she an artist like Dad or is she an artist according to her own terms?

Writing Magic. Gail Carson Levine.

What’s Your Story? A Young Person’s Guide to Writing Fiction. Marion Dane Bauer

Writer’s Notebook and others…Ralph Fletcher

“The successful writer isn’t necessarily the one with the most talent, or the most time, or even the most ideas. The successful writer is the one who believes passionately in the dream of being a writer and is willing to do the work needed to make that dream come true.”