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.
For those on Twitter: I’ve updated my lists of children’s/YA book editors on Twitter as well as literary agents on Twitter who represent children’s/YA book creators. I’ve compiled these lists to help writers and illustrators find industry types to follow on Twitter, not as official lists of those accepting particular types of submissions, . . .
One of the biggest misconceptions about writing picture books, I’ve noticed, goes something like “While I’m working on my REAL book, I think I’ll write a picture book or two for some extra cash. They’re so short, after all.” Here’s my post about why short does NOT mean easy when it . . .
I’m delighted to be one of the stops on THE GREEN UMBRELLA blog tour! This is a debut picture book for author Jackie Azua Kramer and illustrator Maral Sassouni, just launched from NorthSouth Books. The story is fun and imaginative, with gorgeous art, and the underlying message of sharing, generosity and looking . . .
The news is official: Urban Tapestry (my filk music group) has been invited to be the Guests Of Honor at Conflikt in Seattle, WA next January! Toastmaster will be our dear friend Rob Wynne and the Interfilk Guest will be Brett Glass. Allison Durno, Jodi Krangle and I are totally thrilled! None of us . . .
[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, . . .