Children's Writer's World: Confessions of an Introverted Author

You probably know that most children have short attention spans.  When I volunteer to read in the Children's Garden at The University ...

I’ve touched on this subject before, but it bears repeating.  Before you submit work to an editor, it should be reviewed and then edited....

Her envelopes came once a week, addressed to Jim and Randi Mrvos—our names beautifully crafted in cursive.  Hers was the kind of penmanship...

Stories written for children are usually rich in details.  When writers add details to describe a thing or a person, they add them for a ...

How much perseverance do you have?  Do you throw in the towel after receiving a rejection? Do you easily give up when the writing muse fail...

I love publishing poetry for the Kid's Imagination Train .  Recently, I received a cute poem, but the meter and rhyme were off. ...

Generally speaking, I don’t care for change.  I like things to stay the way they are.  So you can imagine how freaked out I got when the...