Today we have a guest post from my friend Laura Leifield, who is an artist, a writer, and a member of my online writing group, The Coven of Scribblers. She once challenged our group to write a picture essay from a photo she selected, and I remember having a hard time only writing a thousand words. She’s multitalented, and starting… Read More
Today we’re talking with the lovely and animated Debbie Ohi, who is a renaissance woman with all the pots she dips her inky fingers into. I was lucky enough to met you at the SCBWI Friday evening meet and greet, with the Illinois members having the good fortune to be thrown in with the international set (you are from Canada,… Read More
Today we’re talking with Lori Degman, author of 1 Zany Zoo, illustrated by Colin Jack and which just came out in July! Thanks for signing 1 Zany Zoo for me at the SCBWI (Society of Book Writers and Illustrators) Conference! And congrats on winning the Cheerios New Author Contest! 1 Zany Zoo reminds me of Seuss’ If I Ran the Zoo, with… Read More
Today we have K. Marie Criddle, freelance artist/illustrator, as well as a YA writer repped by the famous Nathan Bransford. She has a ridiculously cute website and a blog where she posts all kinds of cool stuff, when she’s not shopping for cats. I ran across Marie’s work on Matthew Delman’s blog, where she guest posted this impossible-not-to-love comic about steampunk. Marie, you have so… Read More
I met Jude Mandell – author, poet, teacher, singer (she’s a woman after my own heart, with the many, many hats that she wears) – peeking from behind her book Amazing Faces at the SCBWI booksale. She had to peek because I think she barely cleared five feet tall, but she had the energy of three excited children bound up… Read More
I was amazed at the number of artists I met while attending the SCBWI conference last week. Their business cards carried a bounty of titles: illustrator, art director, graphic designer. My favorite title, however, came from the amazing E.B. Lewis: Artistrator The power of gorgeous illustration is known to every child who opens a picture book. We’ve talked on Ink… Read More