child – CleanWIP Magazine

April 2 is International Children’s Book Day and today’s #CleanWIP theme and collaborative article is Child. [More info]

Photo by Esi Grünhagen

Since today is International Children’s Book Day, we encouraged authors in our CleanWIP collaboration group to tell us about any children’s books they have written. Melinda Kinsmen has written many. Her latest, Never Ask A Wizard, released just over a week ago. It is the sixth book of her Never Ask series. Her original series, Top of the Wardrobe Gang, follows a group of cute, albeit very messy, monsters.

Charmain Zimmerman Brackett has, to date, published two. One of which, Little Pearl’s Circus World was the 2015 Georgia Author of the Year Award winner.

Kim K. O’Hara admits to publishing Nonny and Deedah primarily with her own family in mind, but judging by the book’s description it certainly appears to be a charming tale any family can enjoy.

Use the #CleanWIP hashtag with lines from a WIP and your tweet might be included in a https://t.co/yUHUbxZp23 collaboration for authors who lean clean and readers who love them. April 2 is International Children’s Book Day and the #CleanWIP theme for today is CHILD. pic.twitter.com/bW0oBixtXF
— CleanWIP Magazine (@cleanwip) April 2, 2020

#CleanWIP Half-Price Bride: “Where are my manners? “Emily, this is Alissia, my little sister. Alissia, this is Miss Emily Hammons.”
Alissia tossed her head. “Clint still calls me his ‘little sister’ when I’ll be sixteen in October.”
“Still a child,” Clint stated matter-of-factly.
— Laurean Brooks (@Laurean2) April 2, 2020

“Yes, It’s a perfect reminder of what we’re working for. Or, it will be, if it ever gets hung up.” She stared at Ellie pointedly.

Ellie’s green eyes narrowed. “All right, June. I’ll hang it up if you stop nagging. I’m not a child. And, you’re spoiling the mood.” #cleanWIP
— Jessica Marie Holt — Author (@Jessica06311722) April 2, 2020

“Is this him?” Daanie frowned. He wasn’t what she’d imagined. Perhaps, underneath the torn, dirty slicker and unkempt beard, they’d find the broad shoulders and the fine, square jaw of their ancestors.
“Must be him, child.” Cort eyed the sodden man with misgivings.#cleanwip
— Lea Carter (@LeaCarterWrites) April 3, 2020

The CleanWIP Experience

For a time, CleanWIP Magazine worked closely with published authors and writers who are aspiring to be published as well as other creative people such as artists, poets, bloggers, and songwriters in our CleanWIP collaboration group for authors (et al) and via the #CleanWIP hashtag to bring readers interesting sneak peeks into their works-in-progress and published books plus full-featured articles, personal reflections on the thoughts and struggles from a rough draft to a published work, and special collaborations on various topics. Though the magazine is no longer active, this site might still prove an enjoyable way to meet your next favorite author.

We still encourage writers who market their work as clean to use the #CleanWIP hashtag on any social platform to share sneak peeks from yet-to-be-published works. We also encourage use of the hashtag for a single relevant release day announcement. On Fridays, we relax the structure even further and encourage using #CleanWIP to share relevant news, interesting teases from a work-in-progress or published work (purchase links encouraged on Fridays), or something else our readers might love. Actual use of the hashtag is not within our control and even on this site we will sometimes share #CleanWIP content that doesn’t strictly meet these guidelines.