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…
Book Signings 7 book signing tips for children’s authors 2 Jul 201330 Jan 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 201331 Dec 2021 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…
Writing Who Pooped in the Cascade Mountains? 25 Mar 201319 Aug 2013 A quick update: We are having some illustrator issues right now, and we're not sure what the release date will be for my 18th poop book: Who Pooped in the…
Writing Oh, boy! My book is a textbook! That’s good news, right? 14 Jan 20135 May 2020 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 Facebook: A tool for journalists? 7 Nov 20112 Jan 2022 Ask anyone what Facebook is, and they're likely to give the same short, sweet answer: it's a social networking site. Indeed, that's its primary use for me these days (once…
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…
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