What brought you to children’s books? How long have you been writing? Like many others, a love of reading brought me to kid-lit. However, I did dawdle and take the long and winding road (coincidentally also my High School Junior Prom theme song). I recall viewing my first Scholastic Book Clubs flyer and how it was love at first sight! So many shiny new books to read, with characters to meet and worlds to explore. I knew then I knew I wanted to be an Author and have a book in

As you may or may not know, Rate Your Story offers a Targeted Speedpass, both for Members and Non-Members. Each month, we have two Judges available for these. This month, one of our Target Judges is multi-published non-fiction author Mary Boone! Click here to grab a spot https://www.rateyourstory.org/speed-pass with either Mary or our Owner and Administrator Lynne Marie. What brought you to children’s books? How long have you been writing? I started out as a newspaper reporte

This month's Guest Guru is Author Heather Macht, a multi-published author, as well as a long-time Rate Your Story Judge and also on the RYS Admin Team! She's agented by Lynnette Novak of the The Seymour Agency. This year, she joined the Editorial Team and Advisory Board at Clear Fork Media, where she works on books for both Spork and Dancing Flamingo Press. 1. What do you LOVE about children’s books? I love how so much emotion, humor, and range is packed in each page, and how

Interviewed by Sheila Herrera Question 1: Share a fun or interesting fact about you! Hi, RYS! Thanks so much for having me here. I’ve missed this RYS family! For those of you who have been with RYS for a long while, you probably know me fairly well as the previous administrator. It’s been so wonderful to see this community continue to thrive. An interesting fact about me is that I never expected to write nonfiction! For the first seven years I focused on writing, I only wrote

Interview by Lynne Marie What brought you to children’s books? How long have you been writing? Being a child and loving books started it. Teaching a Survey of Children’s Literature course at Miami Dade College gave me the nudge to actually write. Has your publication journey direction changed at all from the onset? I published several newspaper and magazine articles before I published my first picture book for a series on wild animals. Since then, I’ve been writing almost exc