Job Hunting Copyedit or Copy Edit? 13 Apr 202222 Apr 2022 Oh, the strange dilemmas we encounter when writing a resume! I'm searching for a new job at the moment, and I keep getting dragged off into different rabbit holes of…
Articles… Technology for Microcephalic Morons 11 Mar 20155 May 2023 This was originally written for an old column of mine called "Technobabble." I wrote it in 2002, and just happened to come find it and think, "Gee, I'll bet people…
Book Signings 7 book signing tips for children’s authors 2 Jul 20135 May 2023 There are a lot of things that are different for an author who writes books for children—especially picture books. I've talked about some of these things before, but I've never…
Writing Finding buried treasure — that you buried! 13 Apr 20135 May 2023 It's a rather surreal experience. Here I am, going through a bunch of my writing archives looking for a book proposal template, and I stumble upon an old proposal from…
Education… Oh, boy! My book is a textbook! That’s good news, right? 14 Jan 20136 Feb 2023 When I wrote about this in 2011, I talked about rights reversion and what that means in an age of ebooks. Today, I'm having more of an issue with the…
Writing And the next Who Pooped book is… 14 Sep 201219 Aug 2013 We have a contract for my 18th book in the Who Pooped in the Park? series! This one will be titled Who Pooped in the Cascades?, and will cover the…
Writing Rolling the Dice: Sacrificing style guides for clarity 17 Jan 20121 Feb 2023 UPDATE 2022: The issue of multiple acceptable spellings came up again, this time in a resume. Am I a copyeditor or a copy editor? If you have a question about…
Writing Book Review: Writing with Pictures 26 Oct 20111 Feb 2023 I've finally finished reading the book that I won at the SCBWI (Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators) conference in Los Angeles a couple of months ago. Well, technically…
Writing Working with illustrators 10 Aug 20111 Feb 2023 One of the illustrations Elijah Brady Clark did for my first "Who Pooped" book. At the SCBWI (Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators) conference in Los Angeles last weekend,…