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.
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Lee and Low has asked me to remind you all that the entry deadline for their New Voices Award for unpublished writers is coming up soon.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.
As some of you already know, I’m working on a book that is both a compilation of my writer comics as well as nuggets of writerly wisdom I’ve found in blogs, organized by topic. I don’t have a contract yet, but I’m confident enough in its saleability that I’ve started . . .
I found out about Mary L. Tabor through a recent blog post by Jane Friedman. Mary published her first book after the age of 60, and Jane’s Q&A with Mary is full of fascinating insights. Not only did Mary’s writing success come later in life, but blogged her second book on Sex . . .
One of the biggest challenges of attending an event like the SCBWI Summer Conference, I found, was having to pick between simultaneously scheduled workshops. I wasn’t able to attend Deborah Halverson’s workshop but Adventures In Children’s Publishing did, and has generously shared a conference round-up. A former editor at Harcourt, Halverson . . .