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.
Augh, I admit I’ve been lax on my daily wordcount goals because of more pressing deadlines. BUT NO MORE! I’ve been thinking about signing up for NaNoWriMo but I think I need to be more realistic in my writing goals, especially since I’m away for part of next month (NaNoWriMo . . .
Last night, I got together with some of the other members of the Toronto Middle Grade And YA Authors group at the Bedford Academy to celebrate our 2nd anniversary as a group. I still remember when Claudia Osmond approached each of us in Twitter about getting together in person in Toronto. I . . .
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 . . .