This is Gareth trying to look ‘creative’ when everyone would’ve preferred another picture of me being awesome.

Anyway, here’s some stuff he told me to include that other writers for children might find useful. I’ll have to take his word for it because I am a dog.

Gareth graduated from the Golden Egg Academy Picture Book course where he learnt how to write picture books better which is pretty important if you want to write better picture books.

He’s part of the WriteMentor community and has met lots of people who have also helped him be twice as less bad. He joined the WM courses led by Catherine Emmett and Clare Helen Welsh and watched a bunch of Rashmi Sirdeshpande webinars. They are all proper writers and excellent humans. I’d like to meet their dogs one day.

Gareth is a member of SCBWI which he says is EXTREMELY HELPFUL if you ever want to have a website with actual books on it.

I’ve probably missed something but he’s not paying me enough and this is more my thing.