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.
Jeff and I got back from BoardGameGeek last night. After being away for a week, we had a pile of snailmail to go through. Mine was Very Nice Snailmail and included: (1) Check from Penguin Books for the use of one of my writing comics. I love checks. 🙂 (2) Note from . . .
Eek. Did you know that Japan has squirrel gardens?!? One of the best known is Machida Risu-en, which apparently has over 200 squirrels running rampant. (Thanks to Michelle Henninger-Ainscough for the link.)
I first met Molly Idle at the 2010 SCBWI Summer Conference, when she won the overall portfolio competition and I remember being so impressed by her art. Molly worked for DreamWorks Feature Animation Studios for five years before leaving to devote all her time to children’s book illustration. Molly’s FLORA AND THE . . .
Updated Will Write For Chocolate. My life has gotten progressively busier over the past few years, and I’m finding it more necessarily to actually schedule in pleasure reading time. Sounds stuffy and formal, I know! But if I don’t do that, my reading time gets cut way down. By “pleasure reading,” . . .
I met Patricia Storms through her Booklust blog and then the National Cartoonists Society, and have enjoyed watching her children’s book career blossom. She has illustrated 20 books, three of which she is author as well as illustrator. Patricia says she was twelve when her first cartoon was published in a . . .
Since Amazon announced its acquisition of Goodreads back in April, those of us who have been using Goodreads have been waiting in semi-dread for the inevitable sweeping changes that would end destroying a once-thriving book community. Except they haven’t happened. So far, Amazon appears to be wisely playing it cautious when it comes . . .
Speaking of more writing challenges, there’s also Robert Lee Brewer’s November “Poem A Day” Chapbook Challenge, which is lots of fun. Guidelines here.