Posts by Beth
Accolades for Emma — Emma’s Editing Services
In part four of my interview with Emma Walton Hamilton, which was recently featured in a Thursday series, we talked about her editing services. Emma offers a range of editing services for writers of children’s books, including manuscript evaluations and line edits of picture books, middle grade novels, and young adult novels, query critiques, even…
Read MoreTurning the Spotlight on “Fireflies and Shooting Stars”
When I went to the SCBWI LA conference (Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators) in 2011, one of the first people I met was a tall, friendly man named Ed Raarup. I was immediately impressed by his warmth and his enthusiasm for his writing project, which he was working on with my friend and…
Read MoreAccolades for Emma — Children’s Lit at Stony Brook Southampton
Today in the follow-up to my interview with Emma Walton Hamilton (links in the sidebar), we’re looking at Emma’s involvement at Stony Brook Southampton University on Long Island. As many of you know, I attended the Stony Brook Southampton Children’s Literature Conference last year — and found it to be a wonderful experience both in…
Read MoreAccolades for Emma — Just Write for Kids
To follow up on my interview with Emma Walton Hamilton, I decided I wanted to spotlight some of the things Emma offers for writers, but I wanted to do it in a different way than usual. I have posted before about how Emma has helped me in so many ways. I want you to have…
Read MoreTurning PURPLE for Purple Day
The sunrise may not be purple tomorrow, but all over the world, people will be wearing purple, turning the world purple to remember and support those with epilepsy in all its forms and variants. Purple Day got its start in 2008 when a then nine-year-old girl in Nova Scotia, Cassidy Megan, wanted to do something…
Read MoreThursdays with Emma Walton Hamilton — Interview Excerpt, part EIGHT
We have come to the last excerpt of my interview with Emma Walton Hamilton for the Children’s Book Hub. I have appreciated the opportunity to share it with you, and I hope you’ve enjoyed reading it. You may not know that Emma independently published her book Raising Bookworms: Getting Kids Reading for Pleasure and Empowerment,…
Read MoreDad’s nature photography
No tribute to my dad would be complete without some mention of his love of photography. Since I didn’t say a word about it in my post yesterday, I decided to continue the remembrance of Dad with a look at a few of his photos. I had to restrain myself in my selections for this…
Read MoreOne hundred years ago today…
One hundred years ago today, March 16, 1913, my dad, Raymond, was born. He was the second of seven brothers (although the seventh boy died in infancy) born to John Willie and Jeanie in their farmhouse near where John Willie had come at the age of 4 with his homesteading parents, in 1882. Our family’s…
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