Hooray, Hooray!!! Calling All Children's Picture Book Writers and Illustrators

Join our Highly Interactive, Proven Track-Record eCourse & Talent Search
Designed to Fit Any Schedule.
Starting August 26th 2019 and Running 5 Full Interactive Weeks PLUS
a BONUS instant access mini-conference 6th week!

Stay tuned to find out who our other Fall 2019 Golden Ticket judges will be! Meanwhile, here's...

SOME OF THE MANY BOOKS RACHAEL HAS WORKED ON, IS WORKING ON, OR HAS ACQUIRED

SOME OF THE MANY BOOKS MIRA HAS WORKED ON, IS WORKING ON, OR HAS ACQUIRED

HOW IT ALL WORKS...

It's a 5-week online highly-interactive, mentored e-course and talent search with everything you need to know about writing, selling and marketing children's picture books. Starting August 26th 2019, it also includes a bonus instant-access mini-conference week, an additional 6 months of exclusive access to materials, a keep forever community, and an e-book of course materials.

PLUS A FABULOUS BONUS FOR THE FIRST 20 TO REGISTER: HALF OFF OUR AWESOME START TODAY "LET'S GET FUNNY: WRITING HUMOR FOR KIDS COURSE" (which is getting rave reviews!)

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ENROLLING IS EASY...

Choose from 3 incredible course options:

There's the BIG BONUS Level. This is our base level - which includes the course, the bonuses, the interaction and everything else except an individual one-hour live critique! A great value! If you are interested in adding a live, 1-on-1 intensive critique, please see our following options below. ***Sadly, you can't register now and request a heavily discounted critique later after you hear how fabulous they are. If you can go the extra distance, do, but you'll need to act now as these sell out quickly, especially Mira’s.

For a Limited-Time Only register with the case-sensitive Promo Code: 19PBLove to SAVE AN ADDITIONAL $100 making the Big Bonus Level 477
and the Course Plus Individual One-Hour Mentoring Critiques Only 577! Wow!!!

*The pink price above is for our Bonanza Big Bonus Level and the yellow price is for our Success Levels, which include intensive critiques and mentoring sessions*

Registering for the Craft & Business of Writing Children's Picture Books is an incredibly useful investment in your career with a priceless return on this investment plus it comes with a money back guarantee that if you fully participate and do the work, if at the end of a year you don't feel that you learned a lot, we'll give you your money back.

PLUS!!!

BUT WAIT THERE'S EVEN MORE!!!

We’ve Got Even More Bonus Material!

Learn From Amy Fitzgerald, Senior Editor at Lerner Publishing Group in this FABULOUS EXCLUSIVE EXTRA SPECIAL BONUS, which will help add even more value to your writing no matter what kind of writing you are doing. Even if your story is serious, just about any kind of writing can use some light humor.

As the newly invented saying goes - with picture books - a little levity, combined with brevity, makes for a wonderful story.

Just think. Whether you are a completely clueless beginner or an award-winning author or illustrator, you can...

- Write a fresh children’s picture book story from start to finish or jump in with one of our suggestions
- Polish an existing children's book for publication
- Radically improve your chances of publication or getting an agent
- Write a story that you can later illustrate to increase your chances for publication
- Create a targeted cover letter ready to send to your ideal editor or agent!
- Participate in weekly critiques and our super interactive private FB group
- Have lots of fun
- And have all sorts of opportunities that you wouldn't get anywhere else

Join former students who have now received over 250 contract offers and others who have signed with their dream agents. Here's a wee video from former student AND NOW MULTI-MULTI AWARD-WINNER Yuyi Morales.

Still a little unsure? Here are some more testimonials from amazing students who have taken this transformative journey before you, all of whom are now multi-published!

Marcie Colleen is now multi, multi published with a rocketing kidlit career!

Jenny Kouts is also multi published and doing great in Greece! Yay Jenny!

And here's Danielle Dufayet, now published with two books and more on the way!

And how about this for our awesome guest contributors? Some of the best of the best in the business - some of whom are also my beloved friends - are ready and waiting to share incredibly helpful information to guide you:

Barbara Kerly Children’s Book Author	Rosie Pova Children’s Book Author	Andrea Tompa Candlewick Press
Allison Wortche Knopf/Random House	Amy Allen Henry Holt	Tracey Baptiste Rosen Publishing
Sean McCarthy Sean McCar thy Literary	Brett Duquette Sterling Publishing	Brilliant Mystery editor or agent
Yuyi Morales Author/Illustrator	Jim Averbeck Author/Illustrator	Lori Mortensen F & NF Author
Ashley Wolff Author/Illustrator	Caroline Arnold NF Author	Alexis O'Neill Author
Tara Lazar Author	Miranda Paul Author	Maya Gonzalez Author/Illustrator
Patricia Newman NF Author	Deborah Hopkinson F & NF Author	Marsha Diane Arnold Author
Lee Wardlaw Author	Dashka Slater Author	Luann Stauss Book Buyer
Deborah Warren East/West Literary Agency	The Revisionaries Phenomenal Critique Group	Kathryn Otoshi Author/Illustrator
Orel Protopopescu Penguin Random House	Steff Green Social Media Maven	Greg Pincus Social Media Maven

In a recent course, someone mentioned that our programs are the equivalent of 20 conferences and in some ways they are. We have 27 experts (including the co-instructors) bringing a wealth of expertise and in-depth knowledge You might notice that we end with 2 social media experts because we do everything in our power to help our students succeed in the contemporary publishing landscape where having a social media presence is becoming more and more important.

Is this going to be the year for you?
Our guest contributors will speak to you in custom created videos and written interviews sharing their perspectives on everything from writing tips and secrets on how they structure their books, researching and writing non-fiction, writing biographies, crafting perfect rhymes, creating luscious language, working with plot, getting rejected and keeping on going, what they look for in buying books, what they look for in submissions, creating an authors platform to make you more attractive to publishers and so much more.

Children's Book Academy Results
• Getting a truly powerful education in how to write and submit a children’s picture book story

• Lifetime knowledge of how to write that story and cover letter
• Understanding of how the illustration process works
• Discovering how to find that "perfect for you" publisher or agent and how to submit to them
• And much more

Many of Mira's students have received contract offers (over 360 books and counting), re-energized their careers, and/or landed agents. Former students have won just about every North American award including the Caldecott honor, Jane Addams, and Pura Belpre, among others, and agents are responding super favorably to graduates' work. As you'll see, we work incredibly hard for you and all we ask is that if you get published, you send us an autographed copy of your book or if it becomes a movie, we get to join you in a premiere somewhere :)

Click on one of the three buttons below to get started today!

Here's a tiny sneak peek from a much larger video interview with Marsha Diane Arnold where she shares words of wisdom for beginning writers. In the full interview Marsha shares about her writing process, how she embeds or unearths deeper meanings in her stories, and how she crafts character-driven stories. She's pretty fabulous as are our other gifted contributors.