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.
Congrats to Writer’s Knowledge Base, who wins an Inkygirl Golden CupCake Award! Created by mystery author and writing advice curator Elizabeth Spann Craig (@elizabethcraig on Twitter) this search engine is specifically geared toward writers. It’s a pretty amazing resource. Are you feeling dejected about a recent rejection? Entering “rejection” in the search field will turn . . .
Congrats to Kelly Light on winning my Halloween Comic caption challenge (see the final comic below). I -love- Kelly’s illustrations – you can find out more about her at: http://kellylight.com.
If you’re doing NaNoWriMo (or if you want to see me dance around my office in a red boa), check out Debs&Errol’s new NaNoWriMo music video. 🙂 For more info about Debs & Errol (who do wonderful music for geeks): http://www.debsanderrol.com Errol Elumir is also doing daily NaNoToons: http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/nanotoons If you want to link to . . .
For those doing NaNoWriMo (or even if you’re not), my creative twin Errol Elumir posted this NaNo music video above last year. Actually, he posted a bunch (so do check out his YouTube channel). Debs and Errol will be posting a NEW NaNoWriMo music video very soon. AND I strongly recommend that you Like Errol’s NaNoToons Page on . . .
Straw House, Wood House, Brick House, Blow – Wish Police Commercial from Candlewick Press on Vimeo. Instead of making a book trailer for Straw House, Wood House, Brick House, Blow, his collection of four novellas from Candlewick, Daniel Nayericommissioned four mini-commercials instead. LOVE these! They’re short and intriguing, and get a potential reader’s attention. Many of us . . .
Follow @inkyelbows on Twitter for more kidlit/YA industry news & info Nancy Miller Named Editor-In-Chief at Bloomsbury USA (Publishers Weekly) Bloomsbury children’s market “robust and [continuing] to grow (The Bookseller) Authors and Illustrators Team to Create Picture Book Month (Children’s Book Council) Algonquin Books to start publishing MG & YA by end of 2012 (Kathy . . .
Martha Alderson has worked with hundreds of writers in sold-out plot workshops, retreats, and plot consultations for more than fifteen years. Her clients include bestselling authors, New York editors, and Hollywood movie directors. Martha’s new book, THE PLOT WHISPERER: Secrets of Story Structure Any Writer Can Master (Adams Media, 2011) is an . . .
Still torn between Facebook and Google+. I have been using both social networks, but eventually I know that eventually I’m going to have to pick one or the other as my main social network hangout; I simply haven’t the time to use both regularly…as I’ve mentioned before, my current goal . . .