Over 1,200 children's authors and illustrators are coming down off the high that was #LA14SCBWI this past weekend--the 2014 SCBWI Summer Conference in Los Angeles. At any given time, hundreds and hundreds of other children's authors and illustrators are coming down...
I read Marcel Proust's REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST way before I was old enough to understand and appreciate the importance of things past and way before I was old enough to care to remember things past. I read the book in college and what stayed with me of that book is...
www.twolittlebirdsbooks.comTHE ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT SERIES post #1Why would a “successful” author/illustrator, working with many of the big trade publishers for more than thirty-five years, want to start up an independent publishing imprint? Why take such...
Do book awards still set a quality standard, or are they being too driven by sales goals? Do movie awards still set a quality standard, or are they being too driven by sales goals? Do fashion awards still set a quality standard, or are they being too driven by...
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever...
I am turning fifty today. There. I've said it. I'm not entirely sure what to make of this...achievement. It's certainly forcing me to think about my past and future in ways I've not thought of either before. And it's certainly forcing me to take stock in a way I...