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When I was asked to illustrate my first picture book (I’m Bored) and I started researching picture book formats, I was confused. I knew a standard picture book had 32 pages, for example, but I discovered that these 32 pages might also include the title page and other non-story pages. Plus . . .
CHRISTINA FARLEY is the author of the Gilded series, a YA contemporary fantasy series set in Korea. GILDED was nominated for Korea’s 2014 Morning Calm, Ohio’s 2015 Buckeye award, and the Tome’s It List. As a child, she loved to explore, which later inspired her to jump on a plane and . . .
This is something I’ve been struggling with for years. My tendency is to try editing as I write and while this works for some writers, I know, I find that it bogs me down to a snail’s pace. What I’m trying for my new middle grade novel: to do a . . .
Good luck, everyone! I’m “inkygirl” on the NaNoWriMo website, but I’m not sure how far I’m going to get in my novel since I’ll be away for part of the month and also have a book deadline. :-\ BUT I just found out that you no longer have to start from scratch . . .
Don’t forget to check out my friend Errol Elumir’s daily NaNoToons during November!
I read middle grade novel THE NEST (written by Kenneth Oppel and illustrated by Jon Klassen) in one sitting last night. Totally lives up to the hype. I’m a horror fan and this was genuinely scary, with tension and dread gradually building to a nightmare-inducing climax. Yowza.If you or your 8-12 year old are looking . . .
LOUD LULA launches from Two Lions today! Written by Katy Duffield and illustrated by Mike Boldt, LOUD LULA is southern-flavored tall tale about a little girl with a big voice. “…Little ol’ Lula’s big ol’ voice wreaks ten kinds of havoc from the day she’s born, and that doesn’t change one smidgen when Lula . . .