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Had fun with the Toronto Middle Grade And YA Authors group at the Bedford Academy last night. I continue to be grateful to Claudia Osmond for founding the group. I always come away so inspired and motivated! I asked the attendees of last night’s get together what they were working on, if they had . . .
Today was the first day in my new work schedule, where I try to stay offline for most of the morning. As I mentioned before, I resigned as Writersmarket.com publishing industry columnist as of Dec. 31st, 2011. After 10 years, it’s hard to break the habit of going online first thing . . .
Back in 2001, I visited the Writer’s Digest offices in Cincinnati, OH and pitched my idea of a publishing industry news column to David Fryxell, who was editor-in-chief of Writer’s Digest and Writer’s Digest Books. He liked the idea, so I started my column in January, 2002. Back then I was writing . . .
Inspired by a GalleyCat post on Mediabistro.com. For more WWFC, see WillWriteForChocolate.com.
I’ve been moving over My Life In A Nutshell archives (my semi-autobiographical comic) to https://debbieohi.com/nutshell and came across this strip. It still applies as much today as it did back in 2003. My husband has always been the neat one in the household. 🙂
Back in 2001, my friend Allison Durno convinced me to try reading the Lord Of The Rings trilogy again. I had tried back in high school, but found it way too dull. With the (then) upcoming LOTR movies, though, I figured I may as well give it another shot. Not surprisingly, I decided . . .
Above: Screenshot from a kidlit/YA Google+ Hangout I hosted this morning on my G+ Inkygirl business page. The doodle boy is by Ryan Estrada. For some reason, I wasn’t able to access the collar drawing/writing features (the top left of my screenshot SHOULD have links to those features). I was able to . . .
I joined Klout a while back because I was curious about the service and also because of a recommendation in a blog I respect that writers should be aware of their Klout score. It was fun at first, checking out what various people’s Klout scores were and playing around with the tools. . . .
Jolie Stekly has a great interview with my agent, Ginger Knowlton. Ginger will be sharing her views, along with three other agents, on the final panel of the SCBWI Winter conference. And Ginger mentions me in the interview, yay!! For more insights from book creators, see my Inkygirl Interview Archives and Advice For . . .