Welcome to my blog (scroll down to see individual posts), which was originally on a separate site at Inkygirl.com. I also have a separate Inkygirl newsletter on Substack at debbieohi.substack.com.
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Wow, I love watching this man draw. The video includes fascinating info about how Kevin Henkes draws and writes. He says that before starts a picture book, he works on the character first. He wants to have a clear image of the character before anything else. One of my favourite . . .
Thanks so much to Claudia Osmond for hosting the holiday meet up for the Toronto Middle Grade & Young Adult Author Group! I had a fantastic time: so many great conversations, good food and lots of kidlit/YA talk. For more info about what Torkidlit members are up to, please do visit . . .
I was recently telling someone about my agent and realized that I was doing a terrible job at accurately describing why I think Ginger Knowlton is so great. So I decided to do a handwritten post instead. Please note that these are only ten reasons of many. 🙂
(Continued from Part 1: Lost Weekend with David Diaz) Another highlight from Lost Weekend: the conversations. They sprung up everywhere and without warning, while we were painting, sitting by the fire, helping David in the kitchen, over meals, while we were out walking. Topics frequently revolved around children’s book illustration but . . .
I’m gradually going through all my comic archives as I work on my Will Write For Chocolate book compilation, so am posting some of the oldies here in Inkygirl (sometimes revamped).
Last day of NaNoWriMo! Don’t worry if you didn’t finish — consider taking the 250, 500 or 1000 words a day challenge instead. More about DebsandErrol at http://debsanderrol.com/ Read the daily Nanotoons that Errol has been posted at https://www.facebook.com/NaNoToons
From the Angry Robot site: “We are absolutely thrilled to be able to announce the launch of our new YA imprint, Strange Chemistry The imprint will launch in September 2012, with five titles appearing before the end of that year, before settling down to one book each month. Strange Chemistry will . . .
Great new music video for writers from my friends Debs&Errol. 😀 You can see their daily comics on their website and Errol’s daily NaNoToons.
As some of you already know, I was thrilled to be picked for the SCBWI Illustration Mentorship Program at last year’s Summer Conference in LA. Thrilled as in “can this really be happening to me” thrilled, especially when combined with the offer from Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers . . .