Search the Site

Debbie’s Blog

Welcome to my new blog, which now includes content from many of the blogs I’ve created over the years. You can now also access content via category from this one page instead of having to search for my individual blogs, which were scattered over various platforms and websites.


Martha Rago (HarperCollins Children’s) and Lauren Rille (Simon & Schuster Children’s) advice for aspiring children’s book illustrators

Martha Rago, Associate Creative Director at HarperCollins Children’s Books I recently posted two mini-interviews with Martha Rago and Lauren Rille over on the KidLitArtists blog. With the SCBWI Summer Conference coming up, I asked HarperCollins Associate Creative Director Martha Rago about how SCBWI portfolio showcases help publishers HarperCollins Children’s find illustrators. Martha says . . .



Squirrel doodle in ink & disintegrating grass seed

I’ve been posting a lot of cheerful/cute found object art on social media lately. More recently, I was trying to work with some grass seed heads as a squirrel tail (before I started drawing) and it kept disintegrating on me. And I thought, “IT FIGURES THAT THIS WOULD HAPPEN ON A . . .



I’m a Sharp-Schu Trifecta guest today!

I’m delighted and honoured to be a Sharp-Schu Trifecta guest today. Please do go visit their blogs today to find out more about how I helped create the new look for Judy Blume classics like Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaretand Freckle Juice. On the Mr. Schu Reads blog, K-5 teacher-librarian . . .