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Get the exact checklist I use to write my award-winning, bestselling children's books.

whether you're writing for your home or for publication, this checklist will take your manuscript to a professional level.

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Anyone can write down the bones of a children's story, but editing and polishing to make it print ready? That's a lot harder.

But don't worry, I've written down every single thing I do to make my children's book manuscripts catch the eyes of publishers and go on to produce award-winning, bestselling books.

If you have the base of a children's book (or two, or five, or fifty!) but feel lost when it comes to improving the manuscript(s) into something that feels complete and ready for other readers—The KidLit Edit is for you.

With every book I write, I work through a series of careful, methodical edits to make sure the manuscript is the best it can before it is ever read by anyone else.

Now you can swipe my methodology to see exactly what I do (and when I do it) when I work on editing my own and other's manuscripts.

If you're looking to get your manuscript accepted by an agent or publisher, The KidLit Edit will help you take away any objection because it will show you exactly what the pros are looking for and how to meet their expectations.

If you're planning on self-publishing The KidLit Edit is perfect for making sure your children's book manuscript is on-par with with any book traditionally published, and one children will want to pick up again and agin.

1) The Developmental Edit: This is a high-level edit that looks at your manuscript’s overall content and structure.

2) The Line Edit: This is where you’ll go through your story literally line by line, to make it as clear and strong as possible.

3) The Copy Edit: This is the nitty-gritty. You might have to pull out your style book for this one!

In The KidLit Edit you'll work through three areas of editing to make your manuscript sing:

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Editing is where the magic happens.

What makes a great manuscript? What compels a publisher to pick up a book? What will have kids reading and re-reading the story you self-published for them?

I'm a bestselling, award-winning children's picture book author, and I want to help you. Plus, as the Co-founder and Executive Director of Risen Motherhood, I see hundreds of the best children's books each year and I evaluate them to decide what to recommend to the hundreds of thousands of moms in the RM community, and what goes back on the shelf. I love books, and I might just love seeing books come to life even more.

I've written several children's books. Among them, the bestselling, "Any Time, Any Place, Any Prayer," which was the winner of the Christianity Today's Children and Youth Book of the Year, and a finalist for the ECPA's Children's Book of the Year, and the bestselling, "Like Me: A Story About Disability and Discovering God's Image In Every Person," which won The Gospel Coalition's Children's Book of the Year.

I'm Laura and I'm here to answer your writing questions.

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I've been writing stories for as long as I can remember. In fact, in first grade, I won my first writing award after I entered my story, "Mackenzie's Dog Goldie" in an AT&T writing contest. I still have the certificate and ribbon. (I'm thinking about putting them up on my office wall.) Since that day, I dreamed of being a children's picture book author, but I never actually thought it would happen. But by God's grace, I got where I am today. Now, I get emails and DM's every week from people just like you who are looking for advice and help at various stages of their author journey, but typically their questions require more than what a quick email or DM can accomplish. So, I built The KidLit Lab to answer all the most common questions people have (and the ones they haven't thought of yet). Think of this like my brain in a bottle, taking all my best tips and bringing them straight to you.

- cynthia M.

If you're a person who has many book ideas but struggles to bring them to a "finished point" Laura's resources are for you!

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The PDF template will arrive in your inbox just a few minutes after purchase. Print as many times as you like, or just pull it up electronically next to your working manuscript.

If you need more support, my team is just an email away and ready to answer any of your questions. You can even snag one-on-one time with Laura to help edit and polish your work, right here.