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.
Yay, it’s time for Donalyn Miller’s annual summer #BookADay Challenge! I do read all year round, but I find the #BookADay event a fun extra excuse to do some extra reading, plus I love the community aspect and book-sharing suggestions. You can see my own #BookADay archives here as well as on . . .
If you’re short on writing and revising time, try my Inkygirl Daily Writing Challenge.
Navigation: Sea Monkey & Bob Resource pageBook Tour: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7 With students at the Friends School Of Atlanta. Before, during and after my book tours, I tend to be asked the same sort of questions about basic logistics as well as . . .
Navigation: Sea Monkey & Bob Resource pageBook Tour: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7 Welcome sign in Rouse Elementary (Brandon, MS) My last full day of my Sea Monkey & Bob book tour was near Jackson, MS. I had never been to Mississippi, so was especially excited. Thanks to Lemuria Books, Rouse Elementary and Madison Avenue . . .
Navigation: Sea Monkey & Bob Resource pageBook Tour: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7 Thanks to Ginger Nalley and Stephanie Appel at Parnassus Books for their help with my visits to Battle Ground Academy and Julia Green Elementary in Tennessee. This was my longest day on my book tour but I had . . .
Navigation: Sea Monkey & Bob Resource pageBook Tour: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7 It was dark when I arrived at my hotel in Miami, so I didn’t notice the view until I woke up the next morning. Palm trees, woohoo!! Palm trees may be the norm for where YOU . . .
I embrace reading in ALL formats but I do still love the tactile experience & focus of a print book, especially for picture books. Thanks to Paul Carroll for the comic caption!
Morning doodle inspired by one of my favourite pieces of advice, from Jenny Bent: Writers and illustrators: “Be brave. Fail. Try again. Succeed. Rinse and repeat.”