Earlier this month I shook off my summer inertia, hopped a Metro-North train, and hied myself to NYC to attend a jam-packed, standing-room only panel discussion on “What’s Hot and What’s Not: Trends in Children’s Book Publishing,” sponsored by the Children’s Book Committee of the Authors Guild. The panel was made up of : Kim [...]

Recapturing childhood electronically

It is my turn to blog and it has been my turn to blog since Thursday.  But what to blog?  I thought this was such a good idea to blog and here I am . . . blank.  I guess I’ve been sort of blank in my writing these days, also.  Not that I don’t [...]

There’s always that moment in writing a piece, when I’m stuck. I know where the story’s been. I have a sense of where I want it to go. But somehow, I can’t get past that middle. I’ve stalled. I blame it on the story arc. You know, a story is supposed to build, reach a [...]

Reporting on the Hudson Book Festival in the post below got me thinking about the value of events like it for us, the authors. Beyond the obvious… During my many years of doggedly working toward becoming published, I was, among other things, a Book Fair Mom. Helping to run and engineer a school book fair [...]

Alice, Cat and I were so impressed with the first-ever Hudson Book Festival last month, in Hudson, NY. We were among over 50 authors and illustrators of children’s books, with over 4000 visitors attending. All three of us chatted with our readers, signed books, and presented workshops during the day. Alice spent much of her [...]