Hen in bucket at Barrington Living History Farm Life can turn on a dime. Or if you’re a hen living in a coop, life can turn when your egg hatches. And this week my egg that I’d been sitting on for so long, finally hatched! I’m happy to announce that the enormously talented Erzsi Deàk, founder […]
Tag: Austin SCBWI
Austin SCBWI 2012 Conference Wrap-Up
Another Austin SCBWI conference has come and gone and the inspiration and motivation are burning through my veins! As the ARA for the Austin SCBWI chapter, I saw the results of many months of hard work pay off and that in itself is one of the greatest rewards. Seeing the sheer joy on attendees’ faces […]
Austin SCBWI Outreach Benefits Bastrop Community and Public Libraries
It’s been one month since we kicked off the Austin SCBWI Outreach effort, an effort to help replenish the books that the families and the libraries lost in the fires that ravaged the Bastrop community. Today, representing the Austin SCBWI chapter, my husband and I delivered over 1,000 books donated by children’s authors and illustrators […]
Supporting Children with the Love of Books
Many of you will remember the fires that rippled through the county of Bastrop destroying acres of forests and thousands of businesses and homes. But in the aftermath of tragedy comes rebirth, rebuilding and hope. And it is our hope at the Austin Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) that you will join […]
Storytelling in the Digital Age: Embrace the Change
Emma Dryden, owner of the editorial consulting firm Drydenbks, said this summer at the L.A. SCBWI 2011 Summer Conference “I don’t think we need fear for the survival of the book,” she said. “Not in our lifetime. But the digital world is reshaping the very foundations of the book business and the book business has […]
Author Interview: Jessica Lee Anderson
It’s exciting when I get to interview children’s authors whose work I admire and even more thrilling when that author is also a friend. I first met Jessica Lee Anderson when I attended a book signing party with several other Austin SCBWI authors at Barnes & Noble. At the time, she was signing her middle […]
Five on a Friday
It’s the last Friday of the summer before the kids go back to school. Hubby has taken the day off from work and we’re going to take the kids ice skating. I know ice skating in the summer sounds crazy, but it’s been soooo hot here in Austin that you need to find indoor activities […]
SCBWI 40th Anniversary Summer Conference Day Two – Judy Blume
I missed part of the morning blogging about Day One of the SCBWI 40th Summer Anniversary Conference so I made an executive decision and decided I’d put the recaps together after the conference not during it. My hat goes off to the SCBWI bloggers who’ve been sitting in sessions with their laptops banging out up-to-the-minute […]
Applying and Analyzing Constructive Criticism with the Texas Sweethearts
This past Saturday, eighteen attendees met at the REI in Round Rock (outskirts of Austin) for an intensive workshop Beyond the Basics: Applying and Analyzing Constructive Criticism with the Texas Sweethearts hosted by our Austin SCBWI chapter. After formal introductions by RA Debbie Gonzales, Jessica Anderson, PJ (Tricia) Hoover and Kari Anne Holt presented the […]
Author Interview Tricia Springstubb & Giveaway
Tricia Springstubb has been writing for over thirty years. She lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio with her husband and two funny cats, Habibi and Billy. She has three grown daughters and she’s an active SCBWI member. As a matter of fact, she’ll be giving two workshops this September at the Northern Ohio SCBWI Conference. She […]