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.
An update to those who saw post earlier this week: Yes, I’m still waiting until my good news is official before posting about it. On a related note, I LOVE MY AGENT. I know I don’t have to stress about contractstuff, knowing that Ginger is looking out for my interests. Meanwhile, . . .
I am pleased to announce that I will be illustrating a picture book written by author/actor/comedian Michael Ian Black for Simon & Schuster. Tentative publication date: Spring 2012. More (MUCH more) later.
Helia Phoenix has a great post about Morning Pages. In case some of you haven’t heard the term before, Julia Cameron proposed the exercise in her book, The Artist’s Way, where you write three pages of stream-of-consciousness every morning. Read more about this in this Write For Your Life post.
Haven’t heard of the Inkygirl Wordcount Challenge? The goal of this challenge is to help provide goal-oriented inspiration, with flexibility to avoid giving up in frustration. Please click on any of the buttons above for more info. For added motivation, here are a few useful posts I’ve found online about setting . . .
Just a heads-up that the good news I’m hoping to share soon isn’t public yet. I promise to post on this blog as soon as it is. 🙂
Lee and Low has asked me to remind you all that the entry deadline for their New Voices Award for unpublished writers is coming up soon. “Established in 2000, the New Voices Award encourages writers of color to submit their work to a publisher that takes pride in nurturing new talent.” You . . .
Many thanks to middle grade author Susan Kaye Quinn for interviewing me for her blog, Ink Spells, as part of her Art Appreciation Week. I enjoyed meeting Susan at the SCBWI conference, where I also found out that she has a ROCKET SCIENCE background! For those not familiar with the site, here’s a description: . . .
I have some exciting news I am dying to share, but I want to make sure that all the i’s are dotted and t’s are crossed first. But for now…just… Wow.
Donn Linn in his most recent blog post: The hyperbolic predictions and bombastic punditry will always be with us. The trick for people and companies trying to navigate through this time of change is to sort fact-based opinion and observation from uninformed assumptions and agenda-biased commentary. Yay, Donn! I follow Donn’s Twitter and blog for his . . .
Adventures in Children’s Publishing has a great SCBWI Conference Round-up from Linda Sue Park’s workshop on middle grade novels. Excerpt: The great mission of middle grade novels is to show young people that the world isn’t fair, but that doesn’t mean it has to be miserable.