So many things...

...to tell you so I'm going to attempt super efficiency.
Thank you again to the lovely Katrina for stepping in and stepping up last week.
It's a new month, so it's a new theme: Charlie Bucket is fifty! More on that later.
And there's a new Ask a Publisher podcast on Monday, That's TOMORROW, people!





Last week...

• What a great insight on an author's life from guest blogger Elizabeth Wein - the poetry of The Stock Signing Lesson
• The Blog Break had great Indie focus follow the link for indie author Julie Day's latest post on her author visit.
• Proofreader Catriona Tippin has some advice for self publishers on choosing fonts.
• Maureen Lynas reported from the North East on how Sara O'Connor's been going the extra mile for aspiring authors again - this time help with pitching via the ether.
• Abi Elphinstone's write up of Robert Paul Weston's fantasy masterclass will have you kicking yourself for missing it.
• Illustrators making a living from their illustrator art - how do they do it? John Shelley who has been since he was lad, explores the ways and means.
• And congratulations to Three Hares Books, the new publisher with a difference now up and running!

Next Week...
Amongst lots of other interesting stuff, we have:

• (Just in case you missed it earlier.) A new Ask a Publisher Podcast on Monday!  
• And, visiting Wednesday this week from its normal Monday slot, is Ask a Picture Book Editor, with our RA Natascha Beibow and Little Tiger Press' Ellie Farmer.
• Plus, A third fabulous feature on Friday on the importance of the right USP from author, illustrator and Plaister Press publisher, Gillian McClure.

Double post day today - a Chalkface Challenge Update follows.

The Shadow Judges are revealed at lunchtime...

Back soon,

Jan Carr

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Jan Carr is the editor of Words & Pictures. Her fiction is all over the place, she blogs occasionally and loves to write in magenta. You can contact her at editor@britishscbwi.org.