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Starting my week off with a BUGS AND BAKED GOODS speedydoodle. I find keeping a sketch journal fun, inspiring (getting some ideas for stories) and therapeutic (especially when crazystuff is going on in the news on or social media). See more of my art videos, found object doodles and sketch . . .
Deliciously creepy! I finished this in two sittings. I’m a longtime horror fan, and this was right up my alley; I was inspired to do some fan art, as you can see above. And now I’m even more creeped out by those old-fashioned glass-eyed dolls than I was before! 🙂 . . .
I grew up on L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables books, so was VERY excited to receive an ARC (via NetGalley) of Melanie Fishbane’s debut novel, MAUD: A Novel Inspired By The Life Of L.M. Montgomery. What I especially loved: – Fascinating to find out more about the author’s life growing up, and . . .
For those on Twitter: I’ve updated my lists of children’s/YA book editors on Twitter as well as literary agents on Twitter who represent children’s/YA book creators. I’ve compiled these lists to help writers and illustrators find industry types to follow on Twitter, not as official lists of those accepting particular types of submissions, . . .
One of the biggest misconceptions about writing picture books, I’ve noticed, goes something like “While I’m working on my REAL book, I think I’ll write a picture book or two for some extra cash. They’re so short, after all.” Here’s my post about why short does NOT mean easy when it . . .
I’m delighted to be one of the stops on THE GREEN UMBRELLA blog tour! This is a debut picture book for author Jackie Azua Kramer and illustrator Maral Sassouni, just launched from NorthSouth Books. The story is fun and imaginative, with gorgeous art, and the underlying message of sharing, generosity and looking . . .
[Edited: To those visiting from the 2018 conference: please note this post was made in 2017.] Only a couple of weeks until the annual SCBWI Winter Conference in NYC! This year I’ll be on faculty for the first time (woohoo!), participating in the Art Of Collaboration Illustrators’ Intensive on Friday where we’ll all be . . .