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If you’re a teacher, librarian, aspiring kidlit/YA author or illustrator, I strongly urge you to check out the services currently up for auction on Kate Messner’s site as part of KidLit Cares, generously donated by members of the children’s/YA community to help raise funds for Red Cross disaster relief efforts. NOTE: . . .
Congrats to Tina Cho, who recently won the COWBOY CHRISTMAS book prize giveaway as part of my interview with Rob Sanders. Tina Cho is an author of 22 guided reading books from Lakeshore Learning and Compass Media. My Mini Pet Shop and The Christian Girls Guide to Grace (a book about etiquette), both with Legacy Press Kids, and . . .
Tara Lazar’s Picture Book Idea Month (PiBoIdMo) starts today! The goal: to come up with 30 picture book ideas in 30 days. Even if you’re not ready to join the challenge but are still interested in reading the daily guest posts about writing, illustrating and publishing picture books (hey, I’m one of . . .
Starting today and throughout November, Errol and I are collaborating on daily comics about NaNoWriMo at http://nanotoons.net. You can also follow the comics on our NaNoToons Facebook Page. Errol’s doing NaNoWriMo, of course. I won’t be participating in NaNo this year except as a NaNoRebel. If I had finished my outline for my novel, I . . .
Over the weekend, I was excited about attending Maureen McGowan‘s book launch for her new YA, DEVIANTS: THE DUST CHRONICLES (Book 1). I met Maureen through the Toronto Middle Grade and Young Adult Author Group, a fun network of kidlit/YA writers who meets monthly. Maureen’s one of my favorite YA authors: she’s so positive, . . .
I have a new survey up: How do you discover new books to read? Three multiple choice questions. The goal of these surveys is to help writers in their craft and business, and results are always posted here on Inkygirl. Also see Debbie’s other Surveys and Polls.
A while back I mentioned that I had volunteered as an extra in NaNoMusical, a 6-part Web series about writer friends participating in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). In the spirit of Nanowrimo, it was written in a month, shot in a month and edited in a month with no budget. Yay, . . .
A couple of weeks ago I posted a survey (as part of my ongoing series of surveys) about book trailers and whether people thought they worked. I’ve included some data details and a selection of comments at the end of the post, but here’s a summary: 104 people responded. 85% of . . .
I’ve been a fan of Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast: A Blog About Books for ages, and was THRILLED to discover from Hazel Mitchell (my Pixel Shavings author/illus friend) that Jules has posted about I’M BORED today. You can read the post here: What I’m Up to at Kirkus This Week, Plus . . .