Presents advice to help young readers compose their own poems, including twelve points on the use of rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, similes, metaphors, Onomatopoeia, and several poetic forms.

Not just scenery-use your setting's politics to supercharge your story's conflict! Are you dissatisfied with your invented settings? Do you want to do better than Yet Another Standard Medieval Land? Do you want to build gripping story conflict right into the fabric of your world? Learn how your setting can escape the usual clichš-or take the usual cliches and put a bold new twist on them, that readers or players will love! In Beyond Kings and Princesses:...

Sam, a shy but creative mouse who lives in a library, decides to write and illustrate his own stories which he places on the shelves with the other library books but when children find the tales, they all want to meet the author.

The best children's and young adult novels take readers on wonderful outward adventures and stirring inward journeys. In The Magic Words, editor Cheryl B. Klein guides writers on an enjoyable and practical-minded voyage of their own, from developing a saleable premise for a novel to finding a dream agent. She delves deep into the major elements of fiction - intention, character, plot, and voice - while addressing important topics like diversity, world-building,...