{"product_id":"revise-your-childrens-book-bundle","title":"Revise Your Children's Book Bundle","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdit your children's book in 4 rounds, then write an opening that keeps them reading.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou finished the draft. Then you opened it again to revise, and all of it came at you at once. The plot, the character, a word you don't like on page 3, the ending you were never quite sure about. So you tinker. Two months later the story is different, and you couldn't honestly say it's better.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRevising isn't one job. It's 4, done in an order, so you're only hunting one kind of problem at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat's what the \u003cstrong\u003eKidlit Editing Workbook\u003c\/strong\u003e gives you. Then \u003cstrong\u003eYour Book's First Impression\u003c\/strong\u003e handles the part that decides whether anyone reads the rest, because an editor gives a manuscript about 10 seconds, and most of that is your title, your first line, and your first 50 words.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd if you're writing a picture book, the \u003cstrong\u003ePicture Book Page Layout\u003c\/strong\u003e shows you what a manuscript never can. How your story reads once it's split across 32 pages, where the page turns land, and how many scenes you actually have.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWork the rounds. Sharpen the opening. 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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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt won't give you outside feedback on your story. This is for the editing you do yourself first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow soon will you get it?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYour 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. 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