Writing for children is both a joy and a privilege as we authors are involved at the beginning of many children's learning through our books. Here we offer you a quick guide on the basics off how to start writing a picture book for children.

When the world or your problems start to get you down but you need to write how do you cope? Here we try and offer you some useful tips which hopefully will help you achieve your goals despite those pressures.

The unique quality of ‘audio drama’ allows writers to build a private and exclusive picture in the mind of each separate member of the audience. If you fancy having a go at writing for audio drama then check out what Neville Teller has to say here.

Good storytellers differentiate between a crisis and conflict; whilst beginning authors often focus on the exciting crisis rather than the conflict that makes readers care about the characters enduring the crisis. Here's why you should try both.

You’ve written your book and need to promote it. One way of doing it is to find ways of advertising through literary journals and magazines. It's a good way to link your book to local interest subjects. Here's how.

This blog podcast looks at the way movie makers use trailers to advertise their movie and how you can utilise and adapt their techniques to promote your horror book.

In the 2nd part of this podcast about writing a children's book we continue with working with an illustrator, how to revise, how to edit and cut out the dross and finally how to publish.

This two-part podcast concentrates on some easy steps to writing a children's book. We start with generating a concept that works, creating a character children will love, knowing the length to write and structuring a good plot.

Whether you are doing it live or online you should always be prepared when it comes to doing storytelling sessions. Here are a few tips and ideas to help get you started.

Every author should have a website that compliments their written work. In this podcast Award-winning website creator and author, Ann Brady offers you some tips to help create a good author website.