Welcome to Chapter Book Challenge 2017! #ChaBooCha

It's time for another Chapter Book Challenge!

For those of you who are new to ChaBooCha, here is a little bit about the challenge (all of which you can find on the "About" page for this site): he Chapter Book Challenge, otherwise known as ChaBooCha, was created by Rebecca Fyfe and first ran in 2012. It runs every year in the month of March. The challenge is to write one completed first draft of an early reader, chapter book, middle grade book or YA novel in the month of March, starting on the 1^st of March and finishing on the 31^st of March. 

During the month of March, there are helpful blog posts from published authors, agents and publishers to help members hone their craft, and there are prizes available throughout the challenge. 

ChaBooCha has a very relaxed atmosphere where members help each other to achieve writing goals. You can sign up on the website using the sign-up form, and you can also join the Facebook page for updates and information. There is aTwitter page at and members interact with one another throughout the year in the Facebook group.
It is completely free to join the Chapter Book Challenge. 

You also might be wondering about our logo. The Chapter Book Challenge logo is all about our mascot Nabu the Badger. Nabu loves to read, and he is really looking forward to all of the new chapter books, middle grade books and YA books that are going to be written and published as a result of this year's ChaBooCha. Nabu was named after the Babylonian patron god of scribes, wisdom and literature. Nabu became our "mascot" back in 2014, just two years into the Challenge.

This year's badge is going back to the basics. In 2014, when Nabu first joined us, we used our logo on the badge for that year's challenge, and this year, we are doing so again.

We have some authors and editors already set up to do guest posts for this challenge; some of them you might recognise.

Neil Griffiths
Alayne K. Christian
Aleesah Darlison

Jennifer Gracen

Melissa Stoller

Audra Trosper
Marcie Colleen
Michael Norwitz
Victoria Boulton
Melissa Khalinsky

More authors may be added as the challenge progresses.

For those of you who were not with us in past challenges, we have several posts form previous challenges that might be helpful to you, from such authors as Tamora Pierce, Darren Shan, Angela Ackerman, Becca Puglisi, Lee Wardlaw, Yvonne Navarro, Nancy Holder, Nancy I. Sanders, Wendy Orr, Kimberly Griffiths Little, Emma Walton Hamilton, George Ivanoff and agent Carole Blake, among others. As is usual with ChaBooCha, there will be prizes during the month. You have to be signed up to the challenge in order to be eligible. There will be books on writing and trinkets and handmade goodies offered during select guest posts and an overall gift of a Kindle Fire for one lucky member. I'd love to hear from you in the comments what you are working on this month, or if you are still deciding. As for me, I'm rewriting a previous Chapter Book Challenge novel. After reviewing it, I decided it needed to go in a completely different direction than the one I took it in before so I'm starting it over from scratch.

Happy writing!

A side not to Australian members: Posts will probable come out to you a day late, quite frequently, due to the time differences.

Badges for you to use on your websites and blogs:

I'll have a Facebook banner ready by this weekend.