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🚀 Unlock the Author Course Today
🚀 Unlock the Author Course Today - In the Classroom! - https://www.skool.com/bwup-childrens-book-community-4707/classroom Our free community gives you tips, support, and inspiration — but if you’re ready to take things further, the Author Course is where you’ll find step-by-step tutorials to take your children’s book from idea to finished publication. Inside the course, you’ll learn: ✅ How to plan and structure your story ✅ Writing for the right age group ✅ Working with illustrators and creating storyboards ✅ Cover design, formatting, and publishing (KDP + IngramSpark) ✅ Marketing, school visits, PR, and much more 🔑 Choose How You Want to Unlock the Course 👉 Option 1: Lifetime Access (£195 + VAT) One-time payment, lifetime access to all modules.Unlock Lifetime Access 👉 Option 2: Monthly Access (£25/month + VAT) Full access to all modules, cancel anytime.Unlock Monthly Access More Modules are being added weekly. ✨ Already subscribed? You’ll automatically keep your access at £25/month — no need to rejoin or pay again. Once you’ve completed your payment, we’ll unlock the course modules for you inside Skool so you can keep learning. This is your chance to learn directly from an award-winning children’s book production team with real experience in publishing books that reach Waterstones, win awards, and are loved by readers (even royalty!).
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🚀 START HERE: Your Guide to the Children’s Book Community
Welcome to the Children’s Book Community by Bear With Us Productions! 🎉 This is your space to learn, share, and grow as a children’s book author or illustrator. To help you get the most out of it, here’s your quick walkthrough: 1️⃣ Introduce Yourself Head over to Founding Members and drop a quick post: - Who you are ✏️ - What stage you’re at 📖 - Your biggest goal with your children’s book 🌟 2️⃣ Explore the Categories We’ve made it easy to find what you need: - ✏️ Manuscript Help — get feedback on your writing - 📚 Publishing Pathways — learn about KDP, IngramSpark & more - 🎨 Design & Layout — covers, spreads, and formatting tips - 🚀 Marketing & Promotion — how to get your book seen - 🎉 Wins & Milestones — share your progress & celebrate - Editing help and Tips. 3️⃣ Earn Points & Unlock Levels 🎮 Every time you post, comment, or like, you earn points. Points = Levels, and levels unlock new perks, training videos, and bonus content.🏆 Climb the leaderboard, earn trophies, and celebrate your progress with the community! 4️⃣ Watch the Training Modules 🎥 - Paid Subscription or one-off payment - Here - https://www.skool.com/bwup-childrens-book-community-4707/unlock-the-author-course-today Go to Classroom and check out our step-by-step video modules to guide you through writing, illustrating, publishing, and promoting your book. Unlock more as you level up. 5️⃣ Join the Conversation 💬 Don’t just post — reply to others, cheer them on, and ask questions. The more you give, the more you’ll get from this community. Rules: Please refer to the community's rules. It's very important to adhere to these rules to ensure a safe and enjoyable environment for everyone. - https://www.skool.com/bwup-childrens-book-community-4707/-/rules - You must agree to these rules by agreeing to them in the comments section below - failure to do this will result in you being removed from the community.
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Like a fine wine!🍷
It takes time for a manuscript to mature and I feel I have learnt this not so much the hard way but certainly the long way ! A book’s real magic often happens after the big rewrites and for that reason I will always stick to my new rule ! Resist from sending my very first draft to the best friend to read ! It will no doubt be littered with flaws, ramblings of my idea and a thousand unnecessary filler words within sentences . When I scribbled the first draft and stupidly did the above , I was dealt enough honest negativity to give up on the idea of ever writing a children’s chapter book . I’m glad I didn’t (although I completely agreed with my bestie and felt guilty and quite useless that I had even thought it was ready to read). I’m sharing this, as today I have finally finished another edit and hopefully my last, of this manuscript and I have rewritten huge chunks more times than I wish to admit ! I honestly thought I had finished it to the best of my ability weeks ago . However I have spent the last three nights burning the candle while the world sleeps spotting and removing filler words, using stronger verbs to reinforce the sentences and igniting even more magic into my story. I hadn’t read my manuscript for some time and doing so with fresh eyes enabled me to see everything that was wrong with it and enjoy putting it right. It has taken input from a great team to get FLEA & The Sapphire Spell as shiny as I now believe it can be. If I am qualified to give any advice on manuscripts it would be this …….. I have learnt you cannot rush a story, it takes time to evolve and mature and maybe I have also done that alongside FLEA as a potential writer? Who knows ?
Like a fine wine!🍷
Literary friends
I created these drawings for personal use. When I visit schools or attend book fairs, I always talk about the importance of illustrations in books. These drawings represent a child's imagination when reading a picture book. Next to them are friends who are characters from all the books they've read.
Literary friends
Private commission
Hi everyone, I want to share with you an illustration I made for a private commission. The guy who commissioned it wanted me to draw him and his girlfriend as their favorite animals—a fox for him and an otter for her—traveling together in a fantasy world. The drawing will then be printed and placed above the front door of their house so they can see it everytime they go out. I think the idea is very sweet and cute, and I loved drawing it!
Private commission
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