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Win a FREE place in class TODAY! Join the Live with Lilla!

Lilla’s picture book writing course, My Kid Book Pitch, starts in just a few days, on Monday, May 29th, and you could win a FREE place in class in today’s Zoom!

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Join art agent Lilla plus author-illustrator Erica Root for this FREE live event TODAY at 12 noon ET/5 pm BST – click here to find the time for wherever you are or RSVP for the Facebook event here to get a reminder.

Join the ZOOM here

 

Here’s what to expect in this FREE live Zoom:

Lilla will be talking about the FREE Magic Cards warm-up exercise we shared yesterday (click here to get it now if you missed it), showing off some of her favorite picture books and explaining what makes them so great, and popping up a volunteer live on-screen so they can chat 1:1.

Plus she’ll be chatting to Make Art That Sells student and author-illustrator Erica Root, and giving away a FREE place in My Kid Book Pitch!

Meet Erica Root!

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Erica is a Make Art That Sells student who is now represented by Lilla Rogers Studio after Lilla fell in love with her work in class – and she’s always looking for new artists.

Erica is a Make Art That Sells student who has been represented by Lilla Rogers Studio since 2019 after Lilla fell in love with her art in class.

Her first book, A Year of Weeks: 52 Awesome Weeks of Trying New Things, a guided journal that offers prompts to help readers to enrich their lives , was published in 2021.

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A spread from Close to You from Far Away, which Erica wrote while beta testing My Kid Book Pitch. Learn more about her process and her advice for would-be authors in today’s FREE Zoom!

She wrote her first children’s picture book, Close to You from Far Away, while beta testing Lilla’s My Kid Book Pitch course, and the story was then picked up and published by Running Press Kids in April 2023. Lilla will be chatting to Erica about her process, where she gets her ideas, and her advice for anyone interested in writing and illustrating their very own picture book.

Don’t miss your chance to win – set an alarm on your phone now! Join the Zoom here – you’ll also find the link to join on the front page of our website at www.makeartthatsells.com and in our Instagram Stories.

See you there!

Lots of love

The Make Art That Sells team xxx

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