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Only a couple of weeks until the SCBWI Summer Conference in Los Angeles! If you haven’t yet registered, you’re out of luck….they just announced that the conference is now sold out. However, you can follow along virtually via the #LA14SCBWI hashtag on Twitter as well as the SCBWI conference blog. If you’re a . . .
Registration’s now open for CANSCAIP’s Packaging Your Imagination conference on Saturday, October 18th, 2014. I’ll be giving a workshop for beginning writers and illustrators called “Lightning Rods, Agents & Book Deals: Building Your Personal Brand.” However you feel about the word “brand,” everyone has a personal brand. You DO have control over . . .
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EDITED 9:49 AM: Books About Town just tweeted to me: “So pleased you like the concept of Books about Town. We’ve now added the credit to the bench page. Thanks for highlighting!” Wow, thanks to the organizers for their quick response! Do check out their websitefor more info about their public art . . .
June 5, 2017 Update: Christina Farley now has a wonderful middle grade novel out from Scholastic! See her website for more info about THE PRINCESS AND THE PAGE as well as her GILDED trilogy. I met Christina Farley through my critique group, the MiG Writers. Christy’s one of the most productive writers . . .
A while back, I read Donalyn Miller’s READING IN THE WILD: The Book Whisperer’s Keys To Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits. I enjoyed it so much that I just bought THE BOOK WHISPERER. The books are geared toward educators, but there is so much great info and inspiration for those who help create . . .
When I especially enjoy reading a book or fall in love with a particular illustration, it’s usually because the author or illustrator manages to convey an emotion, scene or story in an unusual way, that spurs me to look at the world a little differently. I try to remember this . . .