Writing guides

Captions carry the story between illustrations. How long they should be, what they should say, and the two failure modes that make a book read flat.

The first page is the one most people rewrite and the one most likely to be read aloud. A method for writing a dedication that sounds like you, with examples of what works.

The how-we-met story is the hardest page to write and the one people rewrite most. A practical method for getting it down, with the mistakes that make it read flat.