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.
(Updated February 9, 2016) So many people think that short = easy, especially when it comes to picture books. And while yes, it’s easy to crank out a picture book manuscript in terms of wordcount, writing a picture book story that a publisher will want to acquire is an entirely . . .
And once again, I am out of bookshelf shelf. AUGH. Gradually converting my favourite print books to ebooks (by giving away the print books, buying the digital versions) to make more room. Except for picture books, which I still strongly prefer in print. WILL SOMEONE PLEASE INVENT A BOOKSHELF TARDIS?
Thanks to Writer’s Digest for including my website Inkygirl.com in their list of 101 Best Websites For Writers! I haven’t seen the full list yet but just got the congrats letter. List is in the most recent issue of the magazine. Congrats to all the others in the list!
Pat Zietlow Miller wrote SOPHIE’S SQUASH, which won the Golden Kite Award, an Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Honor and a Charlotte Zolotow Honor. She has two books coming out this year: WHEREVER YOU GO (Little, Brown, April) and SHARING THE BREAD (Schwartz & Wade, August.) Pat also has six other . . .
Eliza Wheeler is an illustrator and author of children’s books, including MISS MAPLE’S SEEDS, which debuted on the New York Times Best Seller list, and the Newbery Honor winning novel DOLL BONES (by Holly Black). Eliza is a northern Wisconsin native currently living with her husband in Los Angeles, California. I . . .
A late bloomer, Tricia Springstubb didn’t discover the writing life till after she’d tried many other careers—all of which, not so surprisingly, centered on kids. Now she is lucky enough to be a full-time writer in Cleveland, where she lives with her teacher husband and, of course, Habibi. Her books include the . . .
Just came across these fun book-focused parodies of Meghan Trainor’s “All About The Bass”, like Mount Desert Island High School: Also love this “All About That Book” video from Griffin Elementary’s Literacy Night: and “All About The Books” from Andover Elementary: and from Calusa Elementary: and from Christina Iadicicco on . . .
Christopher Cheng is an award-winning Australian author of more than 40 children’s books and is a co-chair of the International Advisory Board for the SCBWI. I met Chris through the SCBWI, and I love his enthusiasm and positive energy. Pictured above: Chris with a python (!) as well as his narrative . . .
I recently had a chance to read the f&gs (which stands for “folded and gathered”, an unbound galley) for WHEREVER YOU GO, a new picture book coming out from Little, Brown in April, written by Pat Zietlow Miller and illustrated by my friend Eliza Wheeler. LOVE THIS. When I read picture books for the . . .