Yes, she wrote one of my all time fave picture books, The Dirty Cowboy, but her blog is called My Desk is a Mess, and decided to start featuring other people's messy desks, which I personally think is a riot,…
21May
24Dec
Like many writers, I'm on various children's literature listservs. One of my groups began a discussion about how great it is to earn money from amazon via one's blog. Some bloggers are earning a lot, too! It's very tempting to…
1Oct
My fall newsletter focuses on school visits so a recent email that ricocheted around various writer and illustrator listservs was of particular interest. That, and it was stunning in its chauvinism.
Most authors I know try to work in a number…
10Sep
I'm not the most organized of folks. I try, I really do. And one thing that keeps/kept me from blogging on a schedule is that I really have this feeling that no one reads me. I'm not on anyone's blog…
20Aug
Editing styles vary as much as people are different. But I have to say, the best advice I ever got on editing was from a very smart man named Michael Stearns, my editor on Mabel the Tooth Fairy and How…
22May
Yes, the life of an author is incredibly glam. This video is dead-on.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/BrainBurps
15Apr
Not really. Who'd want to write anything for them ?!
The IRS is
asking me for lots of dough,
killing my creativity.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/BrainBurps
13Apr
This is the first stanza of a picture book I wrote all about imagination. It hasn't sold yet, but hopefully, soon!
If I were a frog and you were a toad
we’d ribbet all day in amphibian code
we’d hop till we dropped…
