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July 25, 2017
Illustration Contest
Are you a children’s illustrator? If so, here is a fun contest you can enter as long as you are a member of SCBWI. The KS/MO (Kansas and Missouri) Region of the Society is hosting a content. The winners illustration will grace the KS/Mo Fall Conference 2017 programs and will be displayed on the Kansas/Missouri SCBWI web site. It […]
July 24, 2017
Dark, No Light: First Hand Experience vs Research
Sometimes first hand experience trumps all other types of research. I just finished listening to the audiobook for Killers of the Flower Moon, a prohibition era true-crime story. It tells of the creation of the FBI and attempts to figure out why so many wealthy Osage are dying. It also describes the full-on darkness of […]
July 23, 2017
Don’t Dumb It Down
I spent a lot of time pool side this weekend and ended up talking to fellow swim team parents that I don’t see very often. I compared work stories with one of the dads who asked what I had been writing. He nodded sagely as I explained the Dakota Access Pipeline book and the media […]
July 20, 2017
Book Sales Up
In good news for we writer types, Publisher’s Weekly recently reported that print sales are up in the first half of 2017. Sales for January through June are up 3% over the same time period last year in spite of the fact that there was no new blockbuster best seller for that time period. So what’s […]
July 19, 2017
What Are You Reading?
What books are you currently reading? Do you have a stack of books on your bedside table? Beside your favorite chair? My dresser looks like a library dumping ground and this is the shelf of items currently checked out from the library. The two books on top of the Star Wars box are both adult […]
July 18, 2017
Brainstorming
Where do I get ideas? I once made the mistake of telling an interviewer that I get my ideas everywhere. The flow can be so invasive, that I’d have to put a bucket over my head to turn it off. That was one line out of a 20 minute interview. Guess which quote she used? […]
July 17, 2017
A New Type of Poem (New to Me Anyway)
I don’t consider myself a poet but I like to dabble. Because of that, I keep an eye out for new-to-me types of poetry. Here is one that Jane Yolen wrote about in her June 19 daily poetry mailing – the Golden Shovel. Terrence Hayes recently created this form in homage to poet Gwendolyn Brooks. […][image error]
Three New Types of Poems (New to Me Anyway)
I don’t consider myself a poet but I like to dabble. Because of that, I keep an eye out for new-to-me types of poetry. Here is one that Jane Yolen wrote about in her June 19 daily poetry mailing – the Golden Shovel. Terrence Hayes recently created this form in homage to poet Gwendolyn Brooks. […][image error]
July 16, 2017
Picture Book: Rewriting is like Home Improvement
While I was working on several work for hire projects, I roughed out two picture books. While I’m pretty happy with the astronaut book, it needs work. The yoga book? If it was a house, I’d say it was a fixer upper. It’s that bad. But that’s okay. I’m going to rewrite. I don’t mean […]
July 13, 2017
STEM Fiction
When you think of STEM books, do you think of both fiction and nonfiction? The fact of the matter is that fiction can be just as useful in teaching young readers about how science works. Fiction just happens to do it while weaving a marvelous made-up plot at the same time. An idea had just […]
