Caribbean Children's Fiction

LMH publishers As a writer and editor of children’s books, I find it difficult to understand how illustrators can take on the job of ...

Featuring Anansi     The Anansi festival in Kingston on Saturday afternoon, was a great deal of fun. Many children turned out and thoro...

Anansi Reading by Shannon Advice to my writing class: If you are going to write for children, successfully, you need to recapture tha...

How to Write For Children April turned out to be a very busy month. Not much time for blogging. The part I liked best was starting my ann...

Hectic weekend of activities with the Book Industry Association of Jamaica (BIAJ) - awards ceremony, illustrators workshops, readings etc. ...

Don't mind the 'foreign' voice on the previous post.  Write4Kids allows their writing tips to be re-posted. As an editor, one of...

A book marketing newsletter I subscribe to makes this very important point: All of marketing consists in creating relationships. Real rela...

Geoffrey Philp posted reference to this article on facebook recently http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarks...

Once, when I was teaching a short writing course in Trinidad, a student mentioned that she had written a story  for children about a whale ...

Dancing Princesses collage by Shannon The Great Divide Without Disney many modern childr...

If when you wake up in the morning all you can think about is the story you are writing or the next story...