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Last week, I was tickled to get a package from Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers that contained a letter of congratulations from the Junior Library Guild (see bottom of post) as well as a certificate…. … and a cool lapel pin: I had seen “A Junior Library Guild Selection” on book . . .
What a great promo video for The County Bookshop and its sibling entities. You can read how the video was made here. Thanks to Shelf Awareness for the link!
I’m Bored Music Video (inspired by the new picture book from Simon & Schuster BFYR) from debsanderrol on Vimeo. Thanks to my friend Errol Elumir for co-writing the I’M BORED song and creating the video above to help celebrate my upcoming book launch. Note that the song is only loosely based on the book. To find . . .
Instead of trying to do a long report about the 2012 SCBWI Summer Conference, I’m going to do takeaways; it’ll increase the possibility that I’ll actually post them. 🙂 So here’s my first: SCBWI-LA Takeaway #1: Don’t expect everything to happen at your first conference. Experience breeds opportunity. At my . . .
Recently came back from the annual summer conference in LA held by the SCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators). What an amazing, inspiring event! I’ll be posting some personal takeaways and photo faces from the conference, but for now, here are links to my photo sets: ON FLICKR: . . .
Thanks so much to Tara Kressler (@taralibrara on Twitter) for being my 20,000th follower on Twitter! As a prize, I let Tara pick whichever item she wanted from my I’M BORED swag shop (proceeds to go Riley Carney’s Breaking The Chain nonprofit literacy). Tara works for the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, and has kindly agreed to answer . . .
Thanks to Writers Write Creative Blog for making this particular comic so popular on Facebook right now. 🙂 I’m posting some of my older comics here as I catalog and tag them in prep for a print book compilation. You can find my comics for writers on Inkygirl (http://inkygirl.com), Tumblr (http://inkygirl.tumblr.com) and Pinterest . . .
I’m posting some of my older comics here as I catalog and tag them in prep for a print book compilation. You can find my comics for writers on Inkygirl (http://inkygirl.com), Tumblr (http://inkygirl.tumblr.com) and Pinterest (http://pinterest.com/inkyelbows/comics-for-writers-inkygirl-com)
Helaine Becker is one of the most enthusiastic and productive writers I know. I met Helaine through Torkidlit: the Toronto Area Middle Grade and YA Author Group. She has written over 50 books, including the best-selling picture book, A Porcupine in a Pine Tree, the Looney Bay All-Stars series; popular non-fiction, including Magic Up Your . . .
Thanks to Erin Bellavia for interviewing me for Toasted Cheese, a writing community and literary journal. I had lots of fun answering these questions. 🙂