Children’s Writing Jumpstart Offer
Let's Restart Your Children’s Book Writing Journey.
Get lifetime access to Amazing Journey, plus a three month trial of Children’s Book Insider, for just $27 today.
Your Jumpstart Program Includes:
Essentials Video Course
trial membership
This limited-time offer is an $89 value, available to select customers as
a special opportunity from the editors of Children’s Book Insider.
Whether you’re just beginning, getting unstuck, or returning to a project you set aside, you’ll get both a clear starting point and ongoing support, advice and publishing opportunities.
For just $27, you’ll get:
- Amazing Journey: The Essential Guide to Kidlit Writing Success — Laura Backes’ step-by-step roadmap for turning a simple idea into a finished children’s book.
- A three month trial membership to Children’s Book Insider — the trusted resource for aspiring kidlit authors for more than 40 years. Includes 3 Above the Slushpile Submission opportunities to major publishers and literary agents!
During your trial, you’ll have full access to the CBI community, resources, and guidance to help you keep your writing moving forward.
After your no-obligation 90-day trial, your membership continues for $7 per month, and you can cancel anytime.
Amazing Journey
In this video & text course, CBI publisher Laura Backes has distilled more than 40 years of children’s writing knowledge into one easy-to-follow program.
You’ll learn the essential truths about writing for children & teens, presented simply and directly. Covers all kidlit genres, from picture books through young adult.
The course includes:
- Essential Info: Age Categories & Word Counts
- Essential Info: Publishing Glossary
- Essential Info: Frequently Asked Questions About Writing Kidlit
- Essential Info: How a Book Gets Published
- Module 1: Find Your Passion – Discovering What Makes Your Heart Sing
- Module 2: Developing Your Book Idea – From Passion to Plot
- Module 3: Make Time to Write
- Module 4. Pull a Character and Plot from Your Idea
- Module 5: Building Your Protagonist, One Layer at a Time
- Module 6: Crafting a Worthy Foe
- Module 7: Ignite Your Plot with a Catalyst
- Module 8: Strategies to Keep the Pages Turning
- Module 9: Add Heft to Your Story’s Middle
- Module 10: Developing Sub-plots
- Module 11: Endings That Deliver
- Module 12: How to “Show, Don’t Tell” in Your Writing
- Module 13: Working with Point of View
- Module 14: Find Your Strengths, Fix Your Weaknesses
- Module 15: How to Get Feedback on Your Work
- Module 16: Get Ready to Submit: Final Steps Before Sending Your Manuscript
- What Next?
Each module features Laura’s lesson, plus a video that makes even the trickiest writing concepts easy to understand.
Children’s Book Insider Three Month Trial Membership
Published monthly since May, 1990, each issue of CBI features:
Fresh & exclusive market opportunities, featuring publishers & agents seeking writers, contest, grants and more.
Exclusive “Above the Slushpile” member-only submission opportunities with top agents & publishers.
Interviews with leading authors, editors & agents.
Insightful how-to articles about every aspect of writing, revising & getting published, and much more!
Your three month trial includes:
- Three new issues of Children’s Book Insider, featuring our exclusive ‘Above the Slushpile’ special submission opportunities with top publishers & agents.
- The Ultimate Children’s Writing Cheatsheet. Word counts, page lengths, subject guidelines and more for every children’s book category – plus great tips to get published!
- Access to our full Kidlit Social video library, 80+ hours of advice and inspiration from top authors, agents & editors!
- Free ticket to our next Ask Us Anything webinar, featuring CBI publisher Laura Backes.
- In Their Own Words, Volume 1, featuring our interviews with Judy Blume, Gary Paulsen & other kidlit legends.
If you enjoy CBI, you’ll be charged the special rate of only $7 per month after your trial expires. If you’re not up for continuing as a member, you can cancel any time during your trial and not be charged again, or you can cancel your subscription anytime after your full membership kicks in.
With CBI on my side, I went from being unpublished straight to the bestseller list!
If you dream of writing for children or teens, this is the place for you.
Ken Derby, author of The Top 10 Ways to Ruin the First Day of School
Ready to Get Back to Writing?
Get immediate access to Amazing Journey and begin your Children’s Book Insider trial membership — an $89 value – for just $27.
Start now and put your writing dreams back on track.
