Where can I go to be inspired?

The Writer's Attic, Quotes About Writing:
http://home.flash.net/~susan23/quotes.html

Jane Yolen's For Writers:
http://www.janeyolen.com/forwrtrs.html#forwrtrstop

What can I read to improve my craft?

Cynthia Leitich Smith's exceptional site:
http://www.cynthialeitichsmith.com/writingforkids.htm

Karleen Bradford's site:
http://www.makersgallery.com/bradford/howto.html

Ellen Jackson's Ten Tips:
http://www.west.net/~ellenj/

Where can I go to learn the nuts and bolts of manuscript submission?

You can download the SCBWI publication From Typewriter to Printed Page: Facts You Need to Know at:
http://www.scbwi.org/

Children's Book Council's publications:
http://www.cbcbooks.org/

Harold Underdown's site at:
http://www.underdown.org/

Where can I go to learn more about the children's book market?

Children's Book Insider (magazine for subscription) at:
http://www.write4kids.com/aboutcbi.html

Soyouwanna write a children's book?
http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/childbook/childbook.html

Getting Out of the Slushpile:
http://www.underdown.org/slush.htm

Where can I find a list of publishers and editors?

Children's Book Council's Membership list of publishing houses including names of editors and what each house is looking for. Submission policies follow:
http://www.cbcbooks.org/html/mlist1.html

Top Ten Independent Publishers:
http://bookmarket.com/101pub.html

How can I network online?

Mailing Lists Related to Children's Literature:
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/listserv.html

Society of Children's Writers and Illustrators:
http://www.scbwi.org

Write4Kids:
http://www.write4kids.com/wwwboard/

Verla Kay's site:
http://www.verlakay.com/

Where can I go to be inspired?

• The Writer's Attic, Quotes About Writing: http://home.flash.net/~susan23/quotes.html
• Susan Taylor Brown's How I Write: http://home.flash.net/~susan23/howwrite.html
• Jane Yolen's For Writers: http://www.janeyolen.com/forwrtrs.html#forwrtrstop

What can I read to improve my craft?

• For help with characterization, writing dialogue, plotting the story, or considering themes, go to Karleen Bradford's site: http://www.makersgallery.com/bradford/howto.html

Where can I go to learn the nuts and bolts of manuscript submission?

• You can download the SCBWI publication From Typewriter to Printed Page: Facts You Need to Know at: http://www.scbwi.org
• Children's Book Council's Presenting Your Work to a Publisher: http://www.cbcbooks.org/html/pubfaqs.html
• Getting Started: The Basics of Children's Writing and Illustrating by Harold Underdown: http://www.users.interport.net/~hdu/basics.htm
• Getting Out of the Slush Pile by Harold Underdown: http://www.users.interport.net/~hdu/slush.htm
  

Where can I go to learn more about the children's book market?

• Dealing with a Downsized Market: Top Ten List of Things to Do by Harold Underdown: http://www.users.interport.net/~hdu/top_ten.htm

Where can I find a list of publishers and editors?

• Children's Book Council: http://www.cbcbooks.org/html/memberlist.html
  

How can I network online?

• Mailing Lists Related to Children's Literature: http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/listserv.html
• Society of Children's Writers and Illustrators: http://www.scbwi.org
• Cynthia L. Smith's Web Rings: http://www.cynthialeitichsmith.com/correspondence.htm