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.
As I’ve mentioned earlier, I’m very excited to have my first YA short story included in Tomo: Friendship Through Fiction, a new teen anthology edited by Holly Thompson and published by Stone Bridge Press. Part of the sales proceeds will go to help teens affected by the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami. . . .
I’m pleased to announce the launch of a new series of blog posts: POSTS SO FAR: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 As some of you may already know, I’m writing and illustrating my very first picture book for Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers: I’m going to call this Picture Book X until . . .
I’ve updated my I’M BORED Scrapbook with a post about my first meeting at Simon & Schuster in NYC last year: initial impressions, what I learned, and photos. See my Scrapbook Archives for earlier sketches, photos, and quotes from Justin Chanda (editor/publisher), Laurent Linn (art director) and Michael Ian Black (author of I’M . . .
Check out the Archive McPhee Squirrel Coffee Cup that my friend Cathy brought me Edmonton. Yikes! I checked out the Archie McPhee website out of curiosity. Whoa, some scary stuff there! Like these Squirrel Underpants:
Just posted a comic in Writer Unboxed about author platforms and sheep, plus a winning Non-Denominational Spring Festival Lagomorph cartoon caption winner, PLUS my exciting two-book contract news for those who hadn’t heard. 🙂
https://youtube.com/watch?v=B0yO9AM8vDw Thanks to Library Journal for the link on Twitter.
Thanks to Heather Borean, who gave me this mug ages ago. Still makes me smile every time I use it. 🙂
Came across this sign outside a Starbucks on Yonge St., just west of Eglinton W. in Toronto. No, I didn’t have time to order an Espresso Patronum. But I love the illustration and the idea! 😀
As I mentioned earlier, my MiGwriters group is posting a series of interviews with our agents all this week. Up today: Ginger Knowlton of Curtis Brown (MY agent, woohoo!) For more insights from book creators, see my Inkygirl Interview Archives and Advice For Young Writers And Illustrators From Book Creators.