A Mini-Interview with John Parra
Today we are starting the Series of Mini-Interviews for 2012 and we are starting with a BANG! I have a very special guest in my blog, one of my favorite illustrators: the fantastic John Parra. I met John at the SCBWI Los Angeles Conference in 2010 – the year that he
Mini-Interviews Starting Next Week
It's been an eventful weekend and even more eventful Monday. Sandy has behaved badly and deserves to be sent to the corner facing the wall. We are thinking of all our family and friends in CT, PA and NY. We hope they are all safe and warm. With Sandy in time-out,
The November Mini-Interviews 2012
We had the November Mini-Interviews last year, remember? This year we are back with more interviews, more guests, and more Q&A's to fill your month of November. It's been a couple of months now that we have been working on our 2012 Series of Mini-Interviews. All behind the scenes and stuff
KidLitArtists’ Interview
I have officially joined KidLitArtists and have a Welcome Interview on the blog. You can read it here: Welcome Juana Martinez-Neal! KidLitArtists the home of the SCBWI LA Illustration Portfolio Mentorship Program Winners - winners of 2009, 2010 and 2011. The blog provides helpful information and news for children's illustrators as
We have a Giveaway Winner
The Mini-Interviews are over but not the Giveaways and today I have one winner to announce! After the classic 15 minute pen-search, I got my names written down, got my 33 mini-strips of paper filled out and performed the pulling-of-a-name-out-of-a painting act successfully. We got a winner with Sofia as my
A Mini-Interview with ME
This is the fourth week of our Mini-Interview Series and that also means it's FINALLY my week! I've been the first one to post on our blog tour every week. So to take the edge off the akward monologue I thought I would have a pre-post yesterday. Did it help? Not
MY WEEK of Interviews and Giveaway
If you have been following my posts the last few weeks, you know the Mini-Interviews are entering their 4th week tomorrow. If you didn't know about them, you may want to go back and read Molly's, Mikela's and Laura's posts. They are filled with great information and they are at
A Mini-Interview with Laura Jacobsen
This is the third week of our Mini-Interview Series and we are starting Laura Jacobsen's week. Do you know Laura? Have you seen her work? Have you seen her books? Have you? Have you?! Her work is bold. Her illustrations are beautiful and her sketches are fantastic. As a person, Laura
A Mini Interview with Mikela Prevost
This is the second week of our Mini-Interview Series and we continue with the amazing Mikela Prevost. If you haven’t seen Mikela’s work before, reader beware! You will be blown away with her sense of design, her bold strokes and her colors. Have you seen how she handles figures? I know!
A Mini-Interview with Molly Idle
Today we are starting the Series of Mini-Interviews and this week is Molly's week. Miss Molly will be hopping around blogs answering our questions to make one very bubbly Molly Week. And really, how else could Molly's week be? But there’s more! Molly is also hosting a Giveaway this week. She’ll