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Seeking help with my lizard
I’ve drafted a number of stories involving characters who live near a pond. The main characters are a lizard and a salamander, and I have not been able to get the drawing of the lizard right. That’s...
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Non-fiction Picture Books
On Monday, I wrote about a lizard character I’m struggling to illustrate. I can’t get her to look right! A big reason is the facts. She is one of several pond characters and, originally, I researched...
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Marketing
People say, “You must be so excited about your book coming out!” Not till May, I remind them, and, oddly, it actually feels like an anticlimax. I’ve lived with this book for years now. Not in its...
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Tweeting on the Tollbooth
I’ll ruminate more on marketing in my next post (fair warning!), but for now I’d like to send you, twitter-style, to other people’s sites. First is a post on a New York Times blog “Drafts” (great name)...
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More on Marketing
Have you heard of the sandwich generation? Rather – the Oreo cookie generation. I don’t eat cookies, but if I have to imagine and analogize, well, that’s another matter. Forget sanwiches, I’m an Oreo....
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Why Storytelling is Essential for our Species
Or so claims Lisa Cron in “Wired for Story: The Writer’s Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence,” and I believe her. Her entire book is valuable, but she hooked me...
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The Math of the 5-Star Rating System
I’m not comfortable assigning star ratings to books, but I find it helpful when other people do it, so I’ve decided to partake (especially on Goodreads, if not on Amazon, though they’re now under the...
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My Common Core Education
I am in the midst of revising the website I built for my picture book “One Bright Ring.” The new version will include information on how the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) can be used with my...
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A Common Core Conversation
I’d like to use comments about my last post as a springboard for today’s. In a reply to the way I’m trying to use the Common Core with my picture book, a writer worried that my CCSS-inspired questions...
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Story: Humble (Even When Digital)
Those of you who have read my posts know that I depend on digital tools, such as Photoshop, to create my picture book illustrations. After the publication of my first book last May, I also spent a lot...
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