ABOUT

LIVE WRITE SHARE

LiveWriteShare is a creative project aimed at bringing creativity to adults and providing the tools to help them publish their very own children's book. Run by author, illustrator and creative director Emma Mactaggart, you'll be guided from the very beginning - from creating an idea, to writing it, through to publishing and marketing it.

This program has been tested over the last eleven years and has yielded hundreds and hundreds of individual titles, available in print and via Amazon. Bucket lists are only useful if you are able to 'tick' one item off every now and then - and now you can! 

about our course

This course provides comprehensive, common sense and creative inspiration for anyone who has ever wanted to make a picture book. It’s not just for writers, not just for illustrators. It’s for anyone starting out as a picture book creator, whether they wish to pursue commercial publication or self publication.

your course instructor

Emma Mactaggart is an award winning author, speaker and publisher and she has been teaching the craft of writing and illustrating to children and adults for the last eleven years via her Child Writes program. Her publishing business, a small press with a big purpose, Boogie Books, is the largest publisher in the world on Amazon of children’s picture books written by children for children.

These same books also FLY with Jetstar as part of their in-flight entertainment system! She is a regular guest on ABC Southern Queensland Radio with host Belinda Sanders talking about books, and if she isn’t consuming them herself, she is creating them.

‘Imagine’ won two international awards – an IPPY gold medal and a gold Moonbeam Award, both for the eBook version. Her latest project is as publisher of author Jo-Ann Capp’s novella ‘Four Hot Chips’ and she has written a children’s picture book for adults with illustrator Mary-Kate Khoo, ‘Where is the True Ewe'.

Emma wrote and originally published ‘Lily Fabourama Glamourama’ in 2004 and it has been re-imagined and gets a second lease of life with Ester De Boer as illustrator. Emma coordinated the success picture book project for the Melanoma Awareness Foundation, ‘Melanie & Me’. Emma is also the Founder of the International Read to Me! Day campaign, focusing every year, on March 19 on the importance of reading regularly to children; and LiveWriteShare – bringing creativity to adults.