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 know I’ve been scarce on Inkygirl recently, but it’s been craaaazybusy around here with travel, work and prep for the SCBWI Summer Conference. I attended as both a writer and illustrator, and have been posting my kidlit illustration info and reports over on the Where The Sidewalk Begins blog for children’s . . .
I’ve been compiling an “add yourself” list of literary/publishing people on Google+. Short URL: http://bit.ly/GP-LIT To add yourself to any of these lists, just go to the appropriate list and make a post. Feel free to include a URL. You an always edit/update your listing later on. Do spread the word to . . .
With Andrew Tolson‘s agent submitting his YA manuscript ,The Girl Who Saved Kafka, to prospective publishers, he wanted to entice editors with something extra, a taste of the novel before they had read the first page. He decided to launch a blog that was in the voice of the main character: . . .
I’ve been using Google+ pretty heavily for the past week. Here’s my Google+ Profile page, if you’d like to follow me; I’ve updated it with links to my directories of those on Google+ interested in kidlit/YA, librarians, digital publishing/ebooks, children’s book illustrators, comics/webcomics, board gaming, filk, and iPads. See the end . . .
Kate Fall has a great post about how to create a successful “unreliable narrator” in middle grade fiction on the MiG Writers Blog. An excerpt: The trick is to present both what is really going on and what the character is thinking, and to have some reason why the character sees the . . .
Julie Duffy is a writer and the host of StoryADay.org, a creative writing challenge held in May every year. — I’ve just finished up StoryADay May, in which a bunch of writers sat down every day and wrote, well, a story a day. It’s a real challenge and each year it teaches me something . . .