Retreat Trailer

For an inside glimpse of the Novel Revision Retreat, here’s a short video podcast or trailer from the recent San Rafael, California retreat.

changes

Transitions
I’m going through a couple of transitions right now.

I’m moving my office up to the third floor of our Victorian house that serves as office for myself and my DH’s business. In relation to that, I note that

Oliver in Europe with Triplets

Halversons Take Oliver to Portugal, Spain, France and London, England

One of the nicest things about working on the Oliver K. Woodman books were my editors at Harcourt. They were smart, efficient and experts in making a picture book’s text and images come together.
Deborah Halverson did most of the editing work on Searching for Oliver K. [...]

Olivers Travels

You saw it here first! Oliver has a new website and he’s having lots of fun this summer!
Geotagging: A Social App for Geography Fun
Our knowledge of geography is becoming more sophisticated: If you own a smart phone, like the Apple iPhone 3G or some Blackberrys, the phone will automatically adds geotags – location information – [...]

Mapping Oliver

Revision Notes will be on Spring Break for the next two weeks, with maybe one or two posts in there. In this post, I’m just catching up on some personal things.
Successful Lesson Plans for Picture Books
Lesson Plans for Darcy Pattison’s picture books are available as a free pdf download. Included are over 100 activities for [...]

Oliver K. Woodman Needs Your Help

To celebrate the paperback edition, I have created a new group on Flickr.com,(http://www.flickr.com/groups/oliverkwoodman/) the photo sharing website, that will help teachers use the book more effectively in the classroom.

UTube Video of Picture book

There is such unexpected power and exhilaration about seeing any child taking so much joy from a book. It never grows old.

After the First Draft

I have a new Ebook available for free download.
After the First Draft
After the First Draft: 30 Fast, Easy Writing Tips to Help with the Second Draft is a reworking of the series of blog posts, 30 Days to a Stronger Novel. This version collects everything in one place and provides an easy reference.

Read Fiction Online. Here’s how.

Reading fiction online is easier than ever.
BookviewCafe.com
Chapter 3 of my story, The Wayfinder, is available today on www.BookviewCafe.com
Book View Cafe is a consortium, of over twenty professional authors with extensive publishing credits in the print world, who want to connect readers to story. Every day, new content available nowhere else will be served up [...]

Read THE WAYFINDER online

I’m very excited to be a part of a consortium of twenty-four published authors in science fiction, fantasy, horror, romance and young adult fiction which is now offering free online fiction.

BookViewCafe.com makes fiction easily available for free
Ursula K. LeGuin, Vonda N. McIntyre, and Laura Anne Gilman — and Darcy Pattison — are among the writers [...]