Multicultural Children’s Books Day 2019
Feeling honored to have three books on this list. Don't miss Multicultural Children's Books Day January 25, 2019. See more here: https://multiculturalchildrensbookday.com Happy New Year! Make reading a priority.
Work In Progress(My Work and Nature)
Working title: The Forest Does Its Work And Bear Helps(Maybe you do too). Since I am working on a PB about nature and the change of seasons, here is a little of what we have had in Pittsburgh lately.
Much To Be Thankful For
Some of you will remember when all I had to worry(rant?) about on Thanksgiving was the fact that the turkey I bought did not have a pop-up timer. I wrote about it here. Turns out it is still all about the timing. Let's start with the date. One thing and another has those of us who could make it being thankful together on Friday this year instead of Thursday. Long weekend. Who knows what day it is anyway? It all still comes down to what time to put the poultry into [...]
Look where I was last weekend: WPASCBWI
The Western Pennsylvania 2018 Fall conference was an inspiring event. A shout out to the organizers and to the faculty including agents and editors: Stephanie Fretwell-Hill (Red Fox Literay) Samantha Gentry(Assistant editor Crown books) Susan Graham(Einstein Literary Management) Charlotte Wenger(editor Page Street Kids) Thanks for your generous sharing! Now it's time to submit those manuscripts! I'll be redrafting, tightening, adding some humor, stronger characters and attending to voice, honing the craft. Perfecting my twitter abilities and balancing the writing life with self promotion and social media. WHEW! Here we go! Stay tuned!
Good News about forthcoming book: The Spirit of the Cheetah
It is official Julia Cairns https://juliacairns.net/books will illustrate The Spirit of the Cheetah coauthored with Khadra Mohammed and acquired by World Wisdom Press. I think it is a perfect fit. Here are some of the other books Julia has illustrated: Excited about the 2020 pub date!
My Favorite Things
Reading, Recycling and Nature. I found them all in this little alcove at the Philadelphia airport ...of all places. Furniture made from recycled wooden pallets, Little Library Book Exchange(also made from recycled pallets) and plants(planters made from...you guessed ... recycled pallets). These are my passions reading, recycling and nature. No surprise these themes show up so often in my books. To name a few. And this in my own garden proof of my joy in the recycled and nature(full disclosure. It was made by youngest son for Mother's day), And did I [...]