Featuring 64 authors' motivating and inspiring stories behind achieving their first-time publishing successes.

-how they created the ideas for their stories and articles

-how they developed the pieces, and

-how they marketed and sold them to editors

Together with the editors' stories of why they accepted these new authors' work for their publications

With the 64 actual stories and articles with which they found success in today's marketplace

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Apply it all to enhancing your own writing

. . . how they achieved that all-important
first publishing success . . . stories like these . . .

      Cynthia Bryning Johnson's son, Tyler, inspired the story "Squeaks in the Floorboard" about a mouse living under the floorboards. Developing the idea into a story for Highlights for Children was a collaborative process. "I revised 'Squeaks' approximately three different times. Although I thought I was using very simple words, they weren't simple enough, so I revised and revised. But Highlights's Editor Marileta Robinson was very encouraging and helpful throughout the revision process, and I feel that I learned so much from her."

      Janice Graham, mother of seven and grand-mother of five, wrote and rewrote, submitted and revised and resubmitted her idea for helping pre-schoolers to learn to speak softly. When "Gabriella's Whisper" appeared in Turtle, Janice says that the story itself was old enough to be in kindergarten. After that initial success she published many more stories and articles in Highlights for Children, The Friend, Hopscotch, Story Friends, Boys' Quest, Spider, and others-plus she earned a Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Merit Honor Award.

      Farmer and teacher John L. Sperry took his knowledge of horses and wrote a primer on how to interpret horse behavior in "How Is Your Horse Talk?" How did he pick a target magazine? "I searched the Children's Magazine Market directory for potential markets for horse articles. I circled Hopscotch because I liked the theme format, the age group was right, and they had an excellent reputation. . .. I was more than pleased when Hopscotch expressed an interest in the article."

      Peggy Tromblay's story was based on a childhood memory. She reworked it many times to give it a unique slant. Then she sent it off to Mary Lou Carney at Guideposts for Kids. "When my SASE returned a month later, I remember staring at the little 'YES' sticker on the envelope and thinking that the mailman was playing head games with me. When I opened it I discovered a cheerful contract inside. Suddenly, the sticker made complete sense. They want it! I sold it! In that second, I graduated to a real writer."

      Eileen Rosenbloom achieved her first publishing success with Wee Ones e-zine, then had seven more acceptances in magazines over the next year. "While my goal was to write books, I began by writing short stories for magazines. I felt it would give me credibility if I could establish a track record of magazine credits before submitting book manuscripts."

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