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Deborah Halverson is the award-winning author of Writing Young Adult Fiction For Dummies and the forthcoming Writing the New Adult Novel: How to Write & Sell New Adult Fiction, as well as the founder of the popular writers’ advice website DearEditor.com. Deborah edited young adult and children’s fiction with Harcourt Children’s Books before picking up a pen to write the teen novels Honk If You Hate Me and Big Mouth, the picture book Letters to Santa, and three struggling reader books for the “Remix” series. She speaks extensively at workshops and conferences for writers and freelance edits adult fiction and nonfiction while specializing in teen fiction and picture books.

Deborah’s “State of the Children’s Book Market” Zoom Event

When you’re creating children’s books, you don’t find out “current trends” in order to jump on the trend wagon. By the time your book is made, that trend may be over. You learn the trends to understand the industry in which you operate. Those and broader market must-knows are on my agenda for June 26, 2025, when I will present a Zoom event called “The State of the Children’s Book Market” for SCBWI

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