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.
[Edited: To those visiting from the 2018 conference: please note this post was made in 2017.] Only a couple of weeks until the annual SCBWI Winter Conference in NYC! This year I’ll be on faculty for the first time (woohoo!), participating in the Art Of Collaboration Illustrators’ Intensive on Friday where we’ll all be . . .
My illustrated guest post is up on Tara Lazar’s blog today as part of Storystorm.
As some of you already know, I am fond of doodling with coffee stains. I was first inspired by (lo and behold) an accidental coffee stain, whose shape spurred me to turn what was initially a random event into art. I recently posted about purposely creating a bunch of coffee . . .
I have to remind myself of this again and again as I’m working on my novel; my tendency has always been to over-edit as I write the first draft. Feel free to download and print this Robert Cormier quote to post in your home, office, classroom or library! For many more free, . . .
I met Joanne Levy through the local Torkidlit group. I love her wry wit and also loved her middle grade, Small Medium At Large (Bloomsbury); you can see my interview with Joanne from a few years ago, where she talked about how she wrote the book, her work process and advice for aspiring authors. I’m loving . . .
Anyone else feel like this sometimes? I go through this at LEAST once every book project. The insecurity helps keep me humble and also motivates me to always keep learning and experimenting, to push myself to step out of my comfort zone. I try to write or doodle in my . . .
Above: my sketchbook journal entry yesterday. So sorry to hear about the passing of Carrie Fisher. My sister and I saw the original Star Wars (A New Hope) in the theatre together, and I remember being so inspired by the character of Princess Leia — a princess who was a strong . . .
