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.
Looking for the perfect gift for a writer friend? Check out The Literary Ladies’ Guide to the Writing Life,by Nava Atlas. I’ve posted a mini-review on the MiG Writers’ blog. Also see Debbie’s Reading Journal as well as Debbie’s Bookstagram.
A bunch of my old Inkygirl posts got trashed when my WordPress blogs were hacked last year, so I’m going to be uploading some of my personal favorites so that they stay accessible in Inkygirl. Here’s my bookcomic review of Sharon Creech‘s UNFINISHED ANGEL: You can find out more about Sharon Creech . . .
I used to hate poetry. I blame scholarly literary dissection and school. My memory (which, I admit, may be tainted by early years of accumulated hatred) is one of many hours of tortuous analysis, taking a few simple lines of text that I kind of thought were cool at first . . .
From Marsha Madinia Goldfarb McLean, via Helene Hollick
Holly Thompson just posted the cover of Tomo on her book blog: http://tomoanthology.blogspot.com/2011/10/announcing-tomo-cover.html The illustrated figures were created by illustrator John Shelley. I took the cover and created the promo graphic above…feel free to repost it anywhere you’d like to help promote this anthology; please do link the graphic to http://tomoanthology.blogspot.com. (and thanks!) As I mentioned a . . .
Just had a great Hangout with some of my Pixel Shavings pals (group of children’s book illustrator/writers who glog (groupblog) together): +Hazel Mitchell +Sheralyn Barnes +Russ Cox and +Fred Koehler. We missed you, +John Deininger! We’ve never all been in one place together and some of us have never met in person, so it was great to actually . . .
Above: Me, in the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, CA. Nearly finished final revisions to illustrations for I’M BORED (and created a new Facebook Page for I’M BORED — if you’re on Facebook, I’d appreciate it if you could Like it at http://www.facebook.com/boredbook). Meanwhile, though, I’m still trying to do a . . .
A while back, I posted about being nominated for the 2011 Sue Alexander “Most Promising Work” Award. The winners of the award were announced yesterday (I just found out): First prize: Marilyn Hilton Runners-up: Pati Hailey and Karen Bonner Congrats to all the winners! Though I didn’t win, I’m still hugely motivated to finish . . .
A little while ago, I posted about needing to rethink my social media habits. I am still rethinking. 🙂 I was off-line for much of August because of the SCBWI conference in Los Angeles as well as a 10 day anniversary trip with my husband. I had originally planned to stay . . .