Yes, Google, I do think you have made me stoopid! Well, read for yourself and you decide. My brain synapsis fire differently now. Ah, well, maybe it’s not just Google. I sometimes wonder if it has made us less of a research and think society and more of a check out Wikipedia and write. Shaun Tan…
Back
The NYC SCBWI Winter 2013 conference is a blur. It will take me weeks to process. I have flashes of what is good and great. The conference is like the old ‘onion’ metaphor. You peel back the layers. First, well, d’oh, it’s New York. A wonderful city we don’t really spend that much time in….
Vacation
We are reluctant vacationers. It’s not that we don’t like to take time off, or that we don’t enjoy going other places, we do. And we have. When the girls were little we would go on vacation to see family, because no family lived close to us. Then we bought a twenty five foot motor…
Last day
Today. The last day of the SCBWI Los Angeles conference. It will end with an autograph party. We have had remarkable speakers from the opening, Arthur Levine on Timeless…books writers, illustrators, ideas. Karen Cushman on Courting Surprises.Clare Vanderpool on writing life and craft. Tony DiTerlizze on, well, the joy of ideas, how an illustrator gets…
writer’s camp…
off to LA today for the 41st annual Los Angeles SCBWI Conference. It is always a treat, and I am grateful to be able to go, meet other RA/ARA/IC’s domestic and international. It’s also a time to scout out the editors and agents and published authors and try and convince them that coming to the…