Valerie Marchini

  1. Librarians love local authors and want to promote their books, usually through book talks, signings and even local author stickers on s...

Vivy Cohen is 11 years old, loves baseball and her lifelong dream is to be a pitcher in the major leagues. The only problem is she has never...

We know, as writers, that voice is probably the most important quality of our writing. But, regrettably, it is the hardest aspect to underst...

One of my favorite picture books is THE TRUE STORY OF THE 3 LITTLE PIGS! by Jon Scieszka, illustrated by Lane Smith. Besides the attitude of...

Writing is hard, no matter what age group you write for, and writing in verse is even harder. Here’s why: the rhyme and meter has to be perf...

Writing a query pitch requires one to pare down their story to seven sentences or less. Whether your story is a picture book or an adult nov...

You may hear writers groan when they have to rewrite their first chapter again and again. Sometimes, it is because the story you started wri...