Pitch Writing for Non-fiction Picturebooks
About Me
A course by Isabel Thomas , Science Writer and Children's Book Author
Joined April 2021
Joined April 2021
About the video: About Me
Overview
“In this first lesson, I'll tell you how I got started as a non-fiction writer and how my background and interests inspire my work. I will show you some of the things I worked on, including narrative non-fiction, reference, and educational books.”
In this video lesson Isabel Thomas addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Pitch Writing for Non-fiction Picturebooks. Learn how to form a captivating idea for a picturebook and develop it into a professional book proposal that engages publishers.
Partial transcription of the video
“ About Me Hello, I'm Isabel Thomas. I'm a science writer and a children's author from Cambridge, UK. I write about different things for young audiences, including magazine features, web pages, and educational outreach resources, but the main thing that I write is books. I've written more than 180 different titles, a mixture of fiction and non-fiction for young audiences. You'll find my books in bookshops around the world published in more than 30 different languages. I was born in the Devonshire countryside in a tiny hamlet and raised by my mom, who was a single parent. I definitely inheri...”
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Course summary for: Pitch Writing for Non-fiction Picturebooks
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Children's Illustration, Children's Literature, Creative Writing, Narrative, Non-Fiction Writing, Picturebook, Storyboard, Storytelling, Writing
Isabel Thomas
A course by Isabel Thomas
Isabel Thomas is an award-winning science writer and children's book author based near Cambridge, UK. She studied engineering science, then human sciences at the University of Oxford, during which time she worked at the student newspaper and fell in love with journalism. After graduating, Isabel worked as a then-trainee editor at a local publishing house where she began writing short books for beginner readers and working on her passion for writing in her spare time.
Isabel has since published more than 180 books in over 30 languages. Her critically-acclaimed book Moth: An Evolution Story won the AAAS Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books 2020 and was named a book of the summer by the Financial Times. She has also been shortlisted for other prizes including the Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize. As well as this Isabel writes features for children’s science magazines, creates non-fiction resources for organizations such as the BBC, and speaks at festivals, schools, and other events.
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