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.
I’ve lost count of the number of times that I’ve been asked to write or draw something for free but reassured that my work would get great exposure. As the video above points out, exposure doesn’t pay the bills. Thanks to Hazel Mitchell for the link.
Scheduled to launch in Fall 2012, BookMentors.org is a non-profit that intends to use “micro patronage” to supply teachers, students, and librarian in high-needs schools with books. BookMentors.org is a place where you can give and receive books, as well as ideas. Teachers and librarians request, receive, and recommend books. . . .
Writer Unboxed has many excellent posts about the craft and business of fiction, but I especially enjoyed Jane Friedman’s most recent post for writers which asks, how much time should you spend on writing versus platform building? I posted a comment today but am going to post an edited version of it below . . .
‘m posting some of my older comics here as I catalog and tag them in prep for a print book compilation. You can also find my comics for writers on Tumblr and Pinterest.
New on Tales From The Reading Room: Bloomsbury editor Alexandra Pringle discusses the publisher’s new literary imprint, Bloomsbury Circus. An excerpt: When we look back in a year’s time I hope we will have a prize shortlist or two under our belts, a sense of having broken some established authors out of the . . .
Conservative publisher Regnery Publishing plans to launch Little Patriot Press, a new children’s imprint whose titles will be aimed at “teaching and inspiring children through stories about American history and government.” The imprint will launch seven picture books this year. Managing editor: Diane Reeves. Creative director: Cheryl Barnes. URL (not yet . . .
I know, I know — writing an entire story every day sounds crazy. But according to the rules of the challenge, it doesn’t have to be a super-long story. I’m going to use this challenge as motivation to come up with SOME story plot every day: each with a beginning, . . .
If I could give one piece of advice to my young writer/illustrator self, I would have said this: START ATTENDING CONFERENCES. And join organizations like the SCBWI and CANSCAIP. I have learned so much, been incredibly inspired and met many creative kindred spirits because of these events. Not to mention three children’s book . . .
A bunch of my “successful writers who got rejected” posts got trashed during the Big Move After Being Hacked some years ago, but I’m starting up the series again. I’ll be reposting some old rejection stories as well as new ones. Rex Pickett’s SIDEWAYS was rejected 70-80 times before finally . . .
I’m posting some of my older comics here as I catalog and tag them in prep for a print book compilation. You can also find my comics for writers on Tumblr and Pinterest.