Revise Your Children's Book Bundle

Edit your children's book in rounds, and make sure your opening grabs your reader in the first 10 seconds.

You've read your draft so many times you could recite it, and you're still not sure what to change or when it's done. Revising isn't one job. It's 4 rounds, done in order, so you're only hunting one kind of problem at a time.

This bundle walks you through each round. You'll write an opening that keeps a reader past the first 10 seconds, see where your page turns land, and know how many scenes you actually have before you call your book finished.

With the Bundle, You'll Know...

1. The 4 rounds of editing, and what to look for in each one so you're never fixing everything at once
2. How to check your plot against 3 structures and find the beat your story is missing
3. The 3 title approaches you can use and which one fits your story
4. How first lines are built in each category, and the 3 questions that produce one a reader can't pass up
5. The 3 things a reader needs from your first 50 words, and how to find where your story actually starts, which is usually not where you started writing
6. Where your page turns fall once a picture book is laid out across 32 pages, and whether your pacing holds up

Your Bundle Includes...

Kidlit Editing Workbook (PDF download)

1. Fillable PDF workbook, roughly 17 pages
2. Character Profile Card
3. The Dos and Don'ts of Characters cheat sheet
4. Plot Analysis Worksheet
5. Story Plot Checklist
6. Story Writing Techniques Worksheet
7. Kidlit Editing Checklist

Your Book's First Impression (online course)

1. Video instruction plus worksheets for the title, the first line, and the first 50 words
2. Examples for every children's book category, from picture book through young adult
3. A curated list of 150 recently published mentor texts, sorted by category
4. Lifetime access to the course, at your own pace

Picture Book Page Layout (PDF download, for picture books)

1. Google Slides sample pagination layout to lay your story out digitally as a book
2. Fillable 32-page PDF layout with the 4 pages to skip with your text
3. Video tutorial for how to use the pagination

Who's this bundle for?

Writers with a finished draft who know it isn't ready and want to do the work themselves before anyone else reads it. If you've been editing for a while without feeling like you're getting closer, the rounds give you a finish line for each pass.

The workbook and the course cover picture books, chapter books, middle grade, and young adult. The Picture Book Page Layout is the one piece that's specific to picture books, so if you're writing longer fiction you'll work from the other two.

It won't give you outside feedback on your story. This is for the editing you do yourself first.

How soon will you get it?

Your download links for the workbook and the page layout come to the email address you use at checkout, usually within a few minutes, so you can start the first round today. Your course invite follows within 24 to 48 hours, and it comes from Brooke Van Sickle via Podia, which hosts all our course content. The course is self-paced and includes lifetime access to the current content and any future updates, for as long as the course remains available to customers. If you've bought a course from us before, your existing login opens this one too.

This is a digital bundle. Nothing physical will ship.

Please note: Our digital products are for personal use only. While you can use the fillable fields on your computer or print out the sheets yourself, you cannot share this with anyone else, make a copy, or use this for resale.