Waiting for the print-publishing world to settle down and start buying again a a real downer. You can start to spend way too much time trying to read the minds of editors and publishers. You wonder if you should change your style. Switch subjects? Do a complete rewrite of the manuscript you love?  And surely [...]

Barbie as computer software engineer has been creating quite a controversy. I’ve read about it in the Wall Street Journal and heard about it on NPR. Apparently Barbie has an annual career theme! Who knew? Even more astounding, an organized effort among female computer geeks hijacked the voting for Barbie’s annual career choice. They wanted [...]

Picture a hulking sophomore guy, a football player with C- grades, barely. The school gave up on him. “Take more shop” the counselor said when he dared to ask about an art course. He came from a bi-lingual blue collar home with a carpenter father and a stay at home mom. There were few books [...]

Apologia In this spot My post is not. But stay tuned, friends – Writer’s block Always ends. So take a look Another time. You’ll find I’ve blogged – And not in rhyme.

I’ve been fighting a censorship battle all week. No, a parent did not challenge one of my books in a library. I should be so lucky. That kind of challenge is news- and publicity-worthy. Instead, I was battling the censors from Texas right in my own head. Worse, I was losing. Yesterday I submitted my [...]

I have two processes, one for illustrating, the other for writing. They bear little resemblance to one another, except that both use up an awful lot of paper. I do both writing and artwork on my drawing table (pictured), although with writing any comfy chair or sofa will do. Never in bed, and never after [...]