Now that I feel like my story is mature enough, I struggle with the next steps. Should I approach a traditional publisher? And if so,...

Today the first presentable version of Didi, the white blood cell is revealed in this Blog post. But first: If you’re curious about the...

Now that I send off my story to a few kids to read it and hopefully give me feedback about it, it is time for me to ‘move on’ so to...

I’m writing a story about Didi, a brave immune cell and I want this story to be attractive to kids aged 7-10 or older. But I don’t know...

In my last blog I promised you an analysis of the Q&A landscape on COVID-19 questions from children. Before I get to that I wanted to...

I wrote a 5000-word long story about Didi, an immune cell (to be precise a dendritic cell) in the lungs. I’ve written, edited and...

Good day! I am the illustrator of Frederike’s book in progress: “Where the Brave Cells are” and guest writer on her blog. I have had the...

Early on when writing about Didi, the immune cell I realized that I visualized lots of things I wrote about in my head but had no idea if...

Today I want to devote a blog to vaccinations and pregnancy. Why? Because I finally got my first SARS-CoV-2 vaccine! Yay! And I’m...

By chance I was browsing through social media and eventually jumped from website to website when I found the Society of Children's Book...

I deliberately chose to not use any scientific vocabulary in the story. Because I wanted to keep the story itself free of jargon, I had...

In my last blog I told you how the pandemic changed my story. In that sense it was a chance. A chance to get to a better, shorter story....

In April 2020 the corona crisis hit us. All of us, all over the world. A pandemic. During my studies, I’ve learned about the history of...

When I started writing the story, I needed a protagonist and a couple of cells which would get a part of the story. Here again I let...

As I discussed in the previous blog, I had chosen several scientific facts for my science story. But what is a scientific fact? And does...

In today’s blog post I want to come back to the immune story I’m writing. So far all I’ve written was pages full of non-fiction science...

Happy #InternationalImmunologyDay! To celebrate this day, I wanted to write about an important immune concept- boosting your immune...

By now I had written several pages about what happens when the first microorganisms settle onto your skin, in your guts, lungs and any...

So, picture me, reading up on science literature for weeks and weeks. And then I finally start writing. What did I write? I accidentally...

So here I am, struggling with this vague idea of writing about immune cells for children. But I have no idea on how to start. No idea who...