I want a career writing children’s books. I am taking a course at the Institute of Children’s Lit to learn what it takes to write and to publish poems and stories for children.

I am taking a course in Writing for Children and Teenagers this coming January of 2016 with the Institute of Children’s Literature in Connecticut. I will probably take a year to complete the course but I have up to two years to complete my coursework. I have an idea for a story about a little girl as the main character who has some problem  or illness that she will solve at the end of the book. I have always wanted to write children’s books. I took ENG 222 Children’s Literature at Mercer at the James Kerney campus with Dr. Hazel Cooper and I remember loving the class. I took Children’s and Young Adult Lit with Professors Kelley and Fisch at NJCU too but I never got credit for the course! My goal is to have a manuscript that I can submit to a publisher by next January 2017 and hopefully I will publish my first children’s book by May 2017.  I’m hoping my idea for my children’s book centered around a little girl character will inspire readers both girls and boys. Girls rule! Women rock!