Holly Thompson just posted the cover of Tomo on her book blog: http://tomoanthology.blogspot.com/2011/10/announcing-tomo-cover.html The illustrated figures were created by illustrator John Shelley. I took the cover and created the promo graphic above…feel free to repost it anywhere you’d like to help promote this anthology; please do link the graphic to http://tomoanthology.blogspot.com. (and thanks!) As I mentioned a . . .
Just had a great Hangout with some of my Pixel Shavings pals (group of children’s book illustrator/writers who glog (groupblog) together): +Hazel Mitchell +Sheralyn Barnes +Russ Cox and +Fred Koehler. We missed you, +John Deininger! We’ve never all been in one place together and some of us have never met in person, so it was great to actually . . .
Above: Me, in the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, CA. Nearly finished final revisions to illustrations for I’M BORED (and created a new Facebook Page for I’M BORED — if you’re on Facebook, I’d appreciate it if you could Like it at http://www.facebook.com/boredbook). Meanwhile, though, I’m still trying to do a . . .
A while back, I posted about being nominated for the 2011 Sue Alexander “Most Promising Work” Award. The winners of the award were announced yesterday (I just found out): First prize: Marilyn Hilton Runners-up: Pati Hailey and Karen Bonner Congrats to all the winners! Though I didn’t win, I’m still hugely motivated to finish . . .
A little while ago, I posted about needing to rethink my social media habits. I am still rethinking. 🙂 I was off-line for much of August because of the SCBWI conference in Los Angeles as well as a 10 day anniversary trip with my husband. I had originally planned to stay . . .
Writers on Twitter are probably already familiar with Johanna Harness and #amwriting but if you’re not, you should be! #Amwriting is an ongoing chat. You’re not expected to stay tuned-in constantly. The chat happens in the background of your writing day. It is a virtual watercooler for writers, a place you . . .
I’m delighted to announce that my short story, KODAMA, has been accepted for publication in TOMO, a YA anthology coming out from Stone Bridge Press. Proceeds from the sales of the Tomo anthology will go to organizations that assist teens in the quake and tsunami hit areas. Tomo, which means friend in Japanese, . . .
My art director (Laurent Linn at Simon & Schuster) called yesterday to say he had a cover mockup, saying that he had just emailed it to me, was interested in hearing what I thought. I opened the email attachment while he was still on the phone. Then I started yelling . . .
My sister, Ruth Ohi, just posted a book trailer for her newest picture book, Chicken, Pig, Cow and the Class Pet. She created it using iMovie, and the soundtrack was composed by my niece. And yes, I am fairly exploding with pride here. 🙂 Ruth has illustrated over 53 books (12 of which she also . . .