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Celebrate Dr. Seuss’ birthday with Read Across America Day, sponsored by the National Education Association. Here’s a couple shots from my school visits yesterday.
Welcome Mat: Your Novel’s Title When you are brainstorming titles, think of it as a welcome mat. A title’s job is to bring readers into your novel, story, or picture book. This is why the title is often changed by
Reports from Idaho: Novel Revision Retreat Several participants from the Idaho Novel Revision Retreat have blogged about the weekend. And here are pictures of some of the great writers who were there.
The Arkansas Literary Festival took place last weekend and was great fun. Literacy on the Lawn, Arkansas Governor’s Mansion The festival began for me with the arrival of my friend, Dori Butler, who was staying at my house. She was supposed to arrive early on Thursday, so we could visit, but the flights were delayed [...]
Career Evaluations and Study of the Market I rarely post personal things, but good news is made to be shared. This story begins a couple years ago when I was looking at what I was writing and realized I’d like to also write something about nature. I started looking for picture book ideas on nature [...]
Shrunken Manuscript Technique Helps Visualize Problems Following my directions for shrinking, marking and evaluating a novel, here are some recent examples:
My novel, The Wayfinder, is now available in two different digital versions. You can still find used copies of the book on Amazon, Abebooks and other online stores. In addition, you can download the novel from Amazon’s Kindle store and from Mobipocket’s Ebook store. Amazon’s version requires the Kindle, Amazon’s exclusive ebook reader. Mobipocket can [...]
Are Ebooks finally ready for Prime Time? I hated it when, about ten years ago, my local library went to the online digital version of the reference book, Books in Print. I tried to look up something about quilts. There were about 5-600 entries beginning with Quilt in the title, and in the paper version, [...]
School Visit Focuses on State Projects
I’ve been working on my plot this week – which means I’ve been working on character. I’ve been struck again by how interwoven these two are. We artificially separate them out to talk about them, but in practice, you can’t work on plot without considering character. Conflict. For example, when I tried to decide on [...]
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