Nicole Moulaison, Production Manager for Macmillan Feiwel & Friends and Square Fish imprints, provides a fascinating look at what goes into making a book. http://mackids.squarespace.com/mackidssquarespacecom/2010/1/15/behind-the-scenes-production.html
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Pay it Forward Friday – FRED
I just read about FRED, Fathers Ready Every Day, yesterday in my local paper. As a project designed by Texas A&M, FRED’s goal is to encourage father-child involvement and daily rituals of bonding and learning between children and positive male role models. The website provides a reading log and other tools to get started. Pass… Read more »
John Green on NaNoWriMo
Whether you’re writing a novel this month or not, you’re gonna love this!
Pay it Forward Friday: David Macinnis Gill and his Halloween Teen Read
Yesterday I stopped by the website of one of my crit buddies, David Macinnis Gill. It had been a while since I’d visited and I was blown away with the “busy-ness” of it all. I adore “busy” websites because they give me that amusement park feel. Maybe that’s not a fair comparison, because some amusement… Read more »
Pay it Forward Friday – a Day Early: Spoonfuls of Stories
Cheerios is putting a favorite picture book in their cereal boxes. What a wonderful idea!!Vote for your favorite “Spoonfuls of Stories” picture book today.
Pay it Forward Friday: Deb Cushman and WRITER SITES
Deb Cushman fired up her blog, Writer Sites, just a few months ago as “A place where Deb Cushman organizes her favorite writer websites and blogs!” And it’s one of my favorite feeds. I was instantly drawn to Deb’s mission because a) I’m always on the lookout for new writing resources and b) I started… Read more »
An Ode to the Slush Pile
To all my Chicago relatives, “the slush pile” is not a dirty March remnant of a long snowy winter, but instead is the ever-growing stack of unsolicited book manuscripts an editor or an agent accumulates from a host of hopeful authors. My first book which comes out next February, TOO PURPLEY!, was pulled from just… Read more »
Camera-shy Creech Proving Any Author Can Make a Video Trailer
I love that one of my favorite authors is so very humble … and funny.
Parenting the Nearly-Grown: Guest Post by Masha Hamilton
Guest Post: Parenting the Nearly-Grownby Masha Hamilton (Photo by Briana Orr) “Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.” Roman philosopher and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C. Not long after the second of my three children was born, I sat at the kitchen table late one evening… Read more »
Elizabeth Gilbert on Creative Genius
Even though this video has been out there for a while, it’s one I like to view every so often for a healthy dose of inspiration.
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