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May 2, 2014

Brain Burps About Books Podcast #176 Click here to tweet this week’s episode In this week’s episode you’ll hear answers to listeners’ questions from Brain Burps About Books Lunch ‘n Learn with Katie Davis. Julie Falatko review of Abayomi, The Brazilian Puma by Darcy Pattison. how to get your copy of How To Promote Your…

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April 18, 2014

Brain Burps About Books Podcast #174 Thank you to the MFA program at Hamline for sponsoring the podcast. Hamline is the only university in the U.S. with three fine arts programs in creative writing: BFA, MFA (writing for adults), and MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults. The deadline for application to July residency…

April 4, 2011

About two years ago I was sending out a newsletter sporadically, with no real focus to it except my own news. Needless to say, I did not get a lot of subscribers. Actually, maybe I do need to say. Remember the post I wrote about thinking globally? Why would anyone want to only read about…

April 2, 2011

Some of this is a reprint of a guest post I did a while back for the Blue Rose Girls blog. Let’s get you a mailing list. You are going to grow your audience and then stay connected. (No, that is not two things. I promise. Besides, after you’ve collected a mailing list you will…

February 18, 2011

Reprinted from my guest post on the Blue Rose Girls blog In my last guest post for the BRG I talked about all the different things I do in my career as a writer and illustrator and how I balance them. I know a lot of people who read like that just shut down, overwhelmed…

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