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.
Instead of trying to do a long report about the 2012 SCBWI Summer Conference, I’m going to do takeaways; it’ll increase the possibility that I’ll actually post them. 🙂 So here’s my first: SCBWI-LA Takeaway #1: Don’t expect everything to happen at your first conference. Experience breeds opportunity. At my . . .
Recently came back from the annual summer conference in LA held by the SCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators). What an amazing, inspiring event! I’ll be posting some personal takeaways and photo faces from the conference, but for now, here are links to my photo sets: ON FLICKR: . . .
Thanks so much to Tara Kressler (@taralibrara on Twitter) for being my 20,000th follower on Twitter! As a prize, I let Tara pick whichever item she wanted from my I’M BORED swag shop (proceeds to go Riley Carney’s Breaking The Chain nonprofit literacy). Tara works for the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, and has kindly agreed to answer . . .
Thanks to Writers Write Creative Blog for making this particular comic so popular on Facebook right now. 🙂 I’m posting some of my older comics here as I catalog and tag them in prep for a print book compilation. You can find my comics for writers on Inkygirl (http://inkygirl.com), Tumblr (http://inkygirl.tumblr.com) and Pinterest . . .
I’m posting some of my older comics here as I catalog and tag them in prep for a print book compilation. You can find my comics for writers on Inkygirl (http://inkygirl.com), Tumblr (http://inkygirl.tumblr.com) and Pinterest (http://pinterest.com/inkyelbows/comics-for-writers-inkygirl-com)
Helaine Becker is one of the most enthusiastic and productive writers I know. I met Helaine through Torkidlit: the Toronto Area Middle Grade and YA Author Group. She has written over 50 books, including the best-selling picture book, A Porcupine in a Pine Tree, the Looney Bay All-Stars series; popular non-fiction, including Magic Up Your . . .
Thanks to Erin Bellavia for interviewing me for Toasted Cheese, a writing community and literary journal. I had lots of fun answering these questions. 🙂
I met Jocelyn Shipley through Torkidlit: The Toronto Area Middle Grade and Young Adult Group and loved her YA novel, HOW TO TEND A GRAVE (Great Plains Teen Fiction, 2012). Born and raised in London, Canada, Jocelyn graduated from York University and has attended The Humber School for Writers. She is co-editor of Cleavage: Breakaway Fiction . . .
This comic was actually created several years ago, but I revamped the copyright info to include my website. It was inspired by my Scrabble addict friend, John Chew.
Back in May, I wrote a thank you letter to the Society Of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators. Stephen Mooser wrote back the following: Hi Debbie—Wow and Congratulations—we keep a file and a posting of SCBWI Success Stories, and not only is yours one of the best, but it may also be the . . .