Small Reads for Brighters Days
For the first April in several years, I’m not traveling doing school visits for 3/4 of the month! So you’d think I’d have some cool, special project for National Poetry Month here on my blog. I am embarrassed to say I do not. However, I do plan to highlight the wonderful offerings of other bloggers who are […]
I posted a bit ago about the photopoetry book I’m working on for an educational publisher. I got it turned in early last week, and yesterday I got the revision notes. Now, there are several kinds of revision notes I get from educational publishers. The first kind is the best kind. It’s where the editor […]
I’ve made no secret of the fact that I’d love to sell more trade books (the kind like Stampede, where I write a book I love and find a publisher who wants to publish it). And I do have two more in the works for 2011 and 2012–yay! But right now, at least, my bread […]
I found out yesterday through Google Alerts that my poetry book A Fuzzy-Fast Blur: Poems About Pets has been shortlisted for the 2011 Beehive Award (Utah’s Children’s Book Award). Woohoo! Libraries will acquire as many books as they can (it’s a pretty dang long shortlist, with 10 poetry books alone!) and share them with kids, […]
I did a fun Family Reading Night at a local school last night, and for the first time used my poetry treasure chest (more about that soon). The event was great, the kids were terrific, and if I had taken a pic of it, I’d share the fantastic group poem we wrote (shoot!) But […]
OK, nothing’s really on tour. But the leaves are golden or on the ground (or both), it’s almost Halloween, and my book Shrinking Days, Frosty Nights: Poems About Fall, the first book I wrote in the Capstone series I did, had two nice mentions recently. First up, it’s on the Wild About Nature blog today. Check it […]
I’ve been posting this week about school-themed poetry books I love, and I guess I would not be living up to my promotion commitment if I didn’t sneak in a mention of my own two books. I’ve shared poems from both before, so I’ll just link you to the places where you can find excerpts from the […]
Here’s book 10 of the 10 Capstone poetry books I wrote in 2007. If you haven’t already heard about the overall process, and if you’re interested, you can read about it here. After having written 9 poetry collections in one year, I was ready for the final book–to be over. It wasn’t that I didn’t […]
Here’s book 9 of the 10 Capstone poetry books I wrote in 2007. If you haven’t already heard about the overall process, and if you’re interested, you can read about it here. After I finished Chatter, Sing, Roar, Buzz: Poems About the Rain Forest, I moved on to the food poetry collection. I wasn’t […]
Here’s book 8 of the 10 Capstone poetry books I wrote in 2007. If you haven’t already heard about the overall process, and if you’re interested, you can read about it here. After I finished A Fuzzy-Fast Blur: Poems About Pets, I moved on to the rain forest collection. This was another one I […]
