When writing Children’s books, keep the following in mind, but also check the publishers guidelines for longer books, like Young Middle-grade Fiction and up. The following lengths are in number of manuscript pages.

Board Book - 1 1/4 to 2 pages (This equals 16 printed pages.)
Picture Book - 2 to 3 pages (This equals 24 or […]

I’m often asked how to properly count the number of words in a manuscript.
Some people use the word count feature in their word processor, or even buy software to count the words in a manuscript. But in reality, neither of these is correct, or needed. Determining the word count of a manuscript is ultimately up […]

Here’s part two of Ed Beard Jr. drawing. In this tutorial he goes over part two of his shading techniques.
Have Fun,
Jeff