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January 27, 2021
Author Spotlight: Amanda Davis
Happy Wednesday and welcome to Picture Book Spotlight!
I'm really jazzed about this Spotlight Interview. Not only is it a legitimate two-for-one Spotlight, featuring both an author-illustrator and agent, but it's with two really amazing people.
First of all, you need to learn a new word. Agent sibling. I guess that's two words. An agent sibling is someone who is also a client of your agent. Just go with it. You both have this person in common in your life and so you can relate on a unique lev...
January 19, 2021
Agent Spotlight: Paige Terlip
Happy Tuesday and welcome to Picture Book Spotlight!
Today is a pretty special day. It feels crazy to even type this but...my debut picture book, THE BOOK OF RULES, comes out in exactly 10 months from today. Bahhh!!!! What is happening? I don't even know. I need an adult.
But enough about all that. Today we have the first of MANY awesome Agent Spotlights lined up for 2021. I'm super pumped for Paige to be our first! Paige recently joined Andrea Brown Literary Agency as an associate agent and w...
October 17, 2020
#PBCritiqueFest2020
Happy Tuesday and welcome to Picture Book Spotlight!
Ahhhhhhh...can you smell it? The leaves are falling. The caldrons are bubbling. And you're probably drinking things infused with pumpkin. You know what that means...
The inevitability of winter. Also PBCritiqueFest!
My hope was to make this an annual event but I had serious doubts of gathering a team of participants in all this craziness. Who would h...
September 19, 2020
Author-Illustrator Spotlight: DJ Corchin
Happy Tuesday and welcome to Picture Book Spotlight!
Quick plug for #PBCritiqueFest! PB Spotlight will continue hosting this unique annual critique celebration with a few dozen authors, illustrators, and agents. More info will be coming in the next few weeks!
Today's theme is all about that ugly little word we all know very well and hate very much.
No.
Nope. Not now. Not this. Not that. Never. Absolutely not. Try again. Denied. Maybe not? Negative...
September 15, 2020
Agent Spotlight: Emily Forney
Emily Forney
Happy Tuesday and welcome to Picture Book Spotlight!
Hey there, kidlit fam. It's been a minute since I posted one of these here blogs. Probably because grad school swallowed my head. Now that I am between classes, my head has been briefly dislodged, freeing me to Spotlight a new agent who is actively building her client list.
And then all the querying authors and illustrators' ears perked up.
Yes. A new agent!
I am very pleased to feature Emily Forney ...
June 23, 2020
Agent Spotlight: Shari Maurer
The words you are reading are not a figment of your imagination. They are not symptomatic of the collective fever dream that is 2020...No, this is not a drill. This is...Picture Book Spotlight.
Picture Book Spotlight. The serious picture book blog for serious kidlit writers and artists. If you think something is funny about picture books or about this blog or about Brian's face or if you are smiling for ANY reason, please exit the blog now. Because this is clea...
April 14, 2020
Agent Spotlight: Andrea Morrison
Andrea Morrison
Happy Tuesday and welcome to Picture Book Spotlight!
I don't know about you but these past several weeks have been a relentless surge of creative energy and productivity the likes of which I have never seen. I've written hundreds of new picture book manuscripts, finished three middle grade novels, and five and a half young adult novels. When that didn't satiate my muse's bottomless hunger, I wrote my autobiography and a new epic retelling of Odysseus as a ra...
March 31, 2020
Author Spotlight: Ame Dyckman
Ame Dyckman
Happy Tuesday and welcome to Picture Book Spotlight!
Today we have very special Author Spotlight with one of my absolute favorite authors. Ame Dyckman is a New York Times bestselling, award-winning, internationally-translated author and a true kidlit superstar. Her new book, THAT'S LIFE! comes out TODAY!
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I'm thrilled to celebrate this book birthday with her in this interview. Ame is doing a giveaway for this post so watch for details at the end on how you ...
March 20, 2020
Agent Spotlight: Lynnette Novak
Lynnette Novak
Happy Friday and welcome to Picture Book Spotlight!
I am writing to you from deep within the bowels of Quarantine Zone 2934901-54 Sector A. Better known as the Gehrlein dining room.
Yesterday was a sunny day and my family and I went on a walk outside in our neighborhood. The birds were still birding. The sun was still sunning. And my legs remembered how good it feels just to be in motion. Wherever you find yourself during this uncertain time, my hope is tha...
February 25, 2020
Author Spotlight: Shannon Stocker
Shannon Stocker
Happy Tuesday and welcome to Picture Book Spotlight!
If you happened to miss the most recent post about my book deal, click here to check it out!--there are still two more days to enter the giveaway for your chance to win a picture book manuscript 10 minute phone critique with Melissa Richeson!
Today we have a very special Author Spotlight with Shannon Stocker! Shannon's debut, CAN U SAVE THE DAY? was nominated more than any other book during the Picture...
