There’s a great interview, today, in the School Library Journal online edition, with Annie Leonard, creator of THE STORY OF STUFF. Annie’s self-deprecating admission of her lack of intellectualism, provides humble humor alongside her movie masterpiece, which has been viewed in classrooms and homes all over the world. For those of you unfamiliar, THE STORY… Read more »
Stops and Sightings
A Primer on Book Production
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
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 »
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