Picture Book Summit Podcast

Ah, the age old question: How do you write a compelling picture book?

It may be simpler than you think!

Peter H. Reynolds shares how to harness the answers to these following questions for great story-writing:

1. Where have you been?

2. Where are you now?

3. Where are you going?

4. Where would you like to be going?

Today we are thrilled to bring you Adam Rex. Adam Rex wrote and/or illustrated all the books you like including the New York Times best selling Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich, the New York Times best selling School’s First Day of School, and also a number of titles about which the New York Times has been strangely coy. In this snippet from Adam’s Picture Book Summit presentation, he digs down deep into word choice and rules of humor in creating a funny picture book.

Find out more about this year's Picture Book Summit at picturebooksummit.com.

In today’s episode, we’ll hear from Carole Boston Weatherford the award-winning author of numerous books for children including JUNETEENTH JAMBOREE, FREEDOM IN CONGO SQUARE, and YOU CAN FLY! THE TUSKEGEE AIRMAN. In this segment, she talks about premise and point of view and how important they are in picture books.

Find out more about this year's Picture Book Summit at picturebooksummit.com.

It’s our last episode for this initial round of the Picture Book Summit Roundtable series. We plan to bring you more episodes on topics that affect picture book creators in the future. Thank you for your feedback and we hope we get you thinking!

You can catch the first two Roundtable episodes here:

• PBSummit Roundtable – Book Bans
• PBSummit Roundtable – Anything Goes in Picture Books These Days

Today, it feels like we’ve entered a time portal as we discuss the future of Artificial Intelligence, more commonly referred to as AI, and what it means for creatives like picture books writers and illustrators. It has huge implications for all picture book creators and this is the first of what is sure to be a series of discussions we have on the subject as it grows and develops in the coming months and years.

Thanks for joining us for this fun series! We look forward to creating more episodes in the future. If you have a topic you’d like us to cover, leave your suggestions in the comments!

It's our final installment of the 4 Big Reasons Your Manuscripts Get Rejected.

Following agent submission guidelines is a rather obvious part of the querying process....right?

"Query-whisperer" Emma Walton Hamilton gives us an inside look as to why following submission guidelines are crucial—and how over half of all new authors get it wrong.

Have you listened to the other parts of 4 Biggest Reasons Manuscripts Get Rejected?

Catch up here:

046 - 4 Biggest Reasons Manuscript Get Rejected Part 1 - Unoriginal Ideas

047 - 4 Biggest Reasons Manuscript Get Rejected Part 2 - Lack of Emotional Resonance

048 - 4 Biggest Reasons Manuscripts Get Rejected Part 3 - Not Submission Ready