Small Reads for Brighters Days
Today’s post was going to highlight un-nominated-for-the-CYBILS poetry books from a publisher. That didn’t go so well. See my mini-rant. So I looked for a quotation to share instead, and the first four words of this quotation fit me so well this morning, I thought maybe it was a sign! This quotation refers to poetry, […]
Every year, I attend the MBA children’s authors breakfast. While tons of independent booksellers and some local authors and illustrators eat a continental breakfast, we listen to four children’s authors talk for 15 minutes each. Sometimes they talk about their writing process, other times (Eoin Colfer comes to mind), they simply charm the booksellers into […]
Yesterday, School Library Journal published an article by Lee Bock, rounding up "recommended" fall books for preschoolers and elementary kids in four different categories. And I’m so excited that Shrinking Days, Frosty Nights was included: SALAS, Laura Purdie. Shrinking Days, Frosty Nights: Poems About Fall. (Poetry Series). Capstone/A+ Bks. 2008. PLB $23.93. ISBN 978-1-4296-1205-0. K-Gr […]
From Zen in the Art of Writing, by Ray Bradbury (a book I love by an author I love): On Feeding the Muse "Nothing is ever lost. If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and put aside in […]
Come on over to Bubble Stampede for a discussion of microsites and whether or not they make sense as a book-specific marketing tool!
Happy Monday! I survived one daughter’s birthday party over the weekend (as well as sleeping out in a tent in the backyard with her last night), and I’m now officially the mom of two teens. Ack! You’d think if I can do that, marketing would be a piece of cake, right? Huh. You would be […]
(No, this has nothing to do with my post, really. I just think old wheelchairs are spooky. I saw one in the Mississippi River recently, and boy, did that get my brain wheels spinning.) "If you’re not scared, you’re not writing. No message in this book is more important. A state of anxiety is the […]
"Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley." —Charles Simic, Dime-Store Alchemy, 1992
MARKETING MONDAYSI am not a marketing/promotion type person. If I had to sell things for a living, I would surely be sleeping under an overpass somewhere. But, as we’re all too aware, making a career as a writer requires you to support your work by promoting it. And with my first trade poetry picture […]
MARKETING MONDAYSI am not a marketing/promotion type person. If I had to sell things for a living, I would surely be sleeping under an overpass somewhere. But, as we’re all too aware, making a career as a writer requires you to support your work by promoting it. And with my first trade poetry picture […]
