Small Reads for Brighters Days
As a children’s writer, I’ve definitely had to become a more patient person. As we all know, this industry is not for speed demons! Still, a couple of weeks ago, when I opened my mailbox, I was surprised to see a reply postcard. Since I haven’t sent out my own submissions in more than two years, […]
Last week while I was on retreat, I discovered my book cover is up on the Clarion site and Amazon. Yea! I had seen the image for it, but not with the text and design completed. I love it!
A few weeks ago on Poetry Friday, I shared a poem from Pirates, a fantastic new poetry collection by David L. Harrison, illustrated by Dan Burr (Wordsong, 2008). (Just before that, Kelly Fineman at Writing and Ruminating posted an in-depth review of the book here.) I got a nice note from David, and we […]
I am so excited! Friday, I received f&gs for my poetry picture book coming out next spring with Clarion: STAMPEDE: POEMS ABOUT THE WILD SIDE OF SCHOOL. (An f&g, by the way, is a folded and gathered signature. It means it’s a set of the pages for my picture book, with illustrations, but the pages are just folded…they’re […]
A bit back, I told you about my science songs project. It’s my latest work for hire assignment, and it sounds like a lot of fun. All I had at that point was the general assignment–no topics or songs yet. But last week, I received my series guidelines and my four topics. I can’t share […]
I am so excited! Last week I started getting author copies of my 6 poetry books for Capstone Press. I’ve only gotten one of the six so far, because the others are backordered. But soon, I hope! Please note: All blog posts prior to December 2011 were originally in LiveJournal and I imported them here. […]
I rarely post about my writing projects under contract because I thought it would either sound like bragging, or it would bore you to death, or both. But I really like reading other writers’ and illustrators’ posts about their projects and processes, so in 2008, I plan to post periodically about the specific writing I’m […]
On Monday, I got an envelope from Clarion. I thought it was a poetry book, since I’m on the CYBILS nominating panel. But it was a copyedited manuscript of my poetry picture book, STAMPEDE! POEMS TO CELEBRATE THE WILD SIDE OF SCHOOL. My lovely editor, Jennifer Wingertzahn, had gone through with blue pencil (I think […]
