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If you’re a stay-at-home mom with small children, writing for kids can be the perfect part-time job for you. Here’s why:

Read the complete article here.

If you’ve been thinking about learning to write and/or illustrate for children, but just didn’t know how to get started, here’s your chance to get the help you need - for FREE!

Use the special link below to join the Children’s Writers Coaching Club at the National Writing for Children Center and enjoy all the benefits of Level 1 membership for FREE for one month.

That’s right.

Although the order form will list the amount of payment for the month’s membership, your credit card will not be billed for 30 days, so you’ll receive one month’s membership at no charge.

At the end of that time, if you decide the club is not for you, then simply cancel your membership and your credit card won’t be billed at all.

Just look at all the benefits you’ll receive with your FREE month’s membership:

1) Weekly lessons covering the basics of writing for children and a weekly assignment - which you have the option of completing and submitting for review from the club’s writing coaches.

2) Two monthly teleclasses for writers and CDS of these teleclasses so you can listen and learn from them any time you wish. One teleclass will feature a successful children’s book author as the speaker, the other teleclass will feature a successful children’s illustrator as the speaker.

3) FOUR professional manuscript critique opportunities each and every month.

4) You’ll become part of a network of other published and aspiring children’s writers and illustrators.

You CAN become a successful children’s writer and/or illustrator.

You just need a little help getting started.

The Children’s Writers Coaching Club will give you that help.

Get your FREE month’s membership here and get the help you need to succeed!

The National Writing for Children Center will be an exhibitor at the Work at Home Expo this week.

As director of the center, I’ll be making a presentation called Making the Leap: Jump into Freelance Writing for Kids on Tuesday, May 8th at 10:30 in the morning (Eastern time).

Visit the Business and Learning Center to see the lineup of exhibitors and speakers for this exciting event!

A blank computer screen or sheet of paper can be intimidating - even to the most experienced writer.

And sometimes the feeling can lead to a full-fledged case of Writer’s Block.

Before that happens to you, trek on over to the National Writing for Children Center and find out what author Diana Gabaldon does about this common problem among writers.

If you do, you’ll want to click on over to the National Writing for Children Center.

While you’re there, find out how you can promote your latest children’s book on a weekly podcast called Book Bites for Kids.

If you haven’t published any of your work for children yet, find out how you can join the Children’s Writers Coaching Club and connect with children’s publishing professionals across the country to get your children’s writing career in gear.

If you want to learn to write for children and break into print in children’s magazines - or find out the “tricks of the trade” for picture books, middle grade novels, or YA fiction - then visit the National Writing for Children Center, home of the Children’s Writers Coaching Club.

New features have been added to membership at all three levels, so I can honestly say, I don’t think you’ll find a better value any where if you’re trying to become a published children’s author - or maybe even make a living as a children’s writer.

Children’s Author Dotti Enderle

Later this month, members will learn writing and publishing tips from popular children’s author Dotti Enderle. And they’ll even receive a CD of this recorded event.

Included in membership packets later this month will be information about how and why children’s book authors, and even aspiring children’s book authors, should start a professional blog to promote their books and other written work.

This Wednesday, all club members will be able to submit a picture book or children’s short-story manuscript for professional critique in a special critique telesession offered through the coaching gym at the National Writing for Children Center.

For only $47.00 per month, members of the Children’s Writers Coaching Club receive the following EVERY SINGLE MONTH:

1) Daily feedback and weekly writing tips from published children’s book authors through listservs for members.

2) Access to a L.IVE teleclass with a successful children’s book author, agent, editor, or other children’s publishing professional, AND a CD of this recorded event.

3) Access to a L.IVE manuscript critique telesession - including a professional critique of their own children’s manuscript (once a month at Level 1 membership, more often at Level 2 and Level 3 membership).

A single professional manuscript critique alone is well-worth the price of monthly membership in the club.

4) Monthly membership packets that include helpful resource materials for children’s writers - and a loose-leaf binder for these materials, so, over time, each member will have a wealth of information within this binder.

To find out more about the Children’s Writers Coaching Club, and to join the club, click HERE.

If truth be told, most people would love to erase their mistakes. But, not only is that impossible, it really wouldn’t be as wonderful as most people think.

After all, we learn from our mistakes.

Still, it’s always great when we can avoid mistakes in the first place by educating ourselves.

Read my writing tips at The National Writing for Children Center today and avoid some of the most common mistakes I see from new writers.

Once you get to the homepage, just scroll down to today’s blog post.

Happy writing!

Suzanne