I met Andrea Zuill through the SCBWI Mentorship Program. Andrea was chosen for the program in 2011. She is SO much fun, with a wonderfully quirky sense of humor. I was VERY excited for Andrea when she got her first book contract! And with a prestigious publishing imprint like Schwartz & Wade! Andrea . . .
Ruth Spiro is the author of the Baby Loves Science series, published by Charlesbridge. Her debut picture book, Lester Fizz, Bubble-Gum Artist won awards from Writer’s Digest and Willamette Writers, and was a Bank Street College of Education Best Book of the Year. Ruth’s articles and stories have appeared in FamilyFun, CHILD, and The Writer, and also in popular . . .
Mark Gottlieb is a literary agent at Trident Media Group. Mark is actively building his client list, including those who write picture books, middle grade and young adult. For picture books, Mark prefers representing those who both write and illustrate rather than those who write only or illustrate only (see his comments . . .
I’ve started working on a new picture book idea (YAY!). After I pick an idea I’m excited about, I start writing the text. Because I tend to think visually when writing, I also usually start paging out the manuscript and scribbling stick figure thumbnail sketches to help me figure out . . .
Thanks to Robert Lee Brewer and Brian Klems of Writer’s Digest for inviting me to be on their new WritersMarket.com podcast! I talked about how I started writing and illustrating books for young people, what I’ve learned so far, my middle grade novel, meeting Judy Blume, how much I love illustrating . . .
Lucy Ravitch is the author The Pancake Menu, a children’s interactive book that helps kids practice math skills as they play restaurant. The book won the 2016 Bronze Independent Publisher Award in the Children’s Interactive category, and was also the bronze Reader’s Favorite award for Children’s Concept Books for 2016. Lucy says she has loved . . .
Who could not want to read a book with a title like Sheldon Unger vs The Dentures Of Doom? This new middle grade book comes out from Star Crossed Press on October 1st, 2016. You can find more info about Jeff Szpirglas at Twitter and Facebook, and more about Sheldon Unger vs The Dentures Of Doom on Goodreads and . . .
Congrats to my friend and agency sister Hazel Mitchell on the launch of her debut solo picture book, TOBY, published by Candlewick Press! Even though I’ve never met the real-life Toby in person, I’ve been following Hazel’s photos and posts about this sweet rescue dog via social media. And like many other Toby fans, I . . .
Last year, I mentioned how much I enjoyed The Blackthorn Key by Kevin Sands (as Kirkus said, “a spectacular debut”) from Aladdin/Simon & Schuster. I’m excited that the sequel, Mark Of The Plague, launches today! Since escaping from university with a pair of degrees in theoretical physics, Kevin Sands has worked as a researcher, a business consultant, and a . . .
Back in May 2013, I posted an interview with Celia Lee, an editor at Cartwheel Books / Scholastic, and Celia invited Inkygirl readers to submit manuscripts for a limited time; apparently Celia received over a thousand submissions (!). A couple of years later, I met Josh Funk at nErDcampMI and found out that he had . . .