Success Strategies Guest Post: Candice Ransom Writes Across Age Categories & Genres

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Spotlight image: Author Candice Ransom with a few of her 180 published books at a library event.

By Candice Ransom

There was no doubt I was going to be a writer of children’s books.

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Guest Post: Candice Ransom on Working Backwards & Amanda Panda Quits Kindergarten

Guest Post: Candice Ransom on Working Backwards & Amanda Panda Quits Kindergarten

By Candice Ransom

People always ask writers how they get their ideas. Ideas are everywhere—people should ask how does a book come about? 

Over my 36-year career as a writer of children’s books, I’ve written a dozen picture books.

Normally, an idea comes to me and over a period of months,

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