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Bookingly Yours has posted a guest post from me about The Wayfinder. How could we Find our way home? How do we Find our way?
Rita Reviews has posted a review of The WAyfinder, read it here. “Lady Kala and Winchal are a unique duo.”
One project for this summer is to revise Novel Metamorphosis: Uncommon Ways to Revise. It’s the workbook for my Novel Revision Retreat and it’s also a “retreat in a book.” This year, there are four debut novels coming out of the retreats and three so far for 2012. (BTW, I”m booking retreats now for 2012, [...]
Books & Authors for the NonFiction Book Blast I’m attending the June ALA conference and will be speaking on Sunday morning, along with nine other nonfiction authors. I’ve posted on the NonFiction Book Blast today, specifically telling more about writing Prairie Storms, but in general talking about the difference in writing fiction and nonfiction. PLEASE [...]
I’m speaking today at the Arkansas Association of Instructional Media (AAIM) conference about using Book Trailers in the Classroom and Library. So, at the same time, I am rolling out the trailer for the paperback release of my novel, THE WAYFINDER. *|YouTube:_LlJirZt2Tk|* Please pass it on!
Richard Curtis in a recent EReads post asks a provocative question: Do authors make good publishers? The question is in the context of ebooks, keep that in mind. They point to high-profile authors who have tried this route this year: Cory Doctorow, Seth Godwin and J.A. Conrath. Curtis concludes that the services of a publisher [...]
Connect with Authors Through Skype One site that quickly gained popularity this year is the Skype an Author, a Wetpaint site, billed at the key to Virtual Author Visits in Your Library or Classroom. Set up by Sarah Chauncey of the Grandview Elementary School Library in Rockland County, NY schools and author Mona Kirby, it [...]
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.
Mysteries in a Picture Book Picture book mysteries are rarely for the pre-school set; instead, the audience is the early grades, K-3. For these kids, the core of the mystery needs to be something gentle, non-threatening. No murders here. But strange situations, natural disasters and chase scenes work well. Puzzles or Strange Situations. In The [...]
Within the picture book genre, there are certain sub-genres and I’ll cover some of these in the next few days. Creative Non-fiction Picture Books Non-fiction is about the facts. But those facts cannot be trite, boring, or presented in a cliched way. Not the for the picture book audience. Instead, you must find creative ways [...]
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