I’m mighty excited that the 39th Annual SCBWI Summer Conference starts on Friday… and I’ll be there, reconnecting with old friends and, I hope, making new ones.
I’m thrilled to be part of the faculty this year, doing two breakout sessions in the ProTrack with Alice Pope. We’ll be talking social media, and I think it’s gonna be a fun and informative time.
If you’re at the Conference, I do hope you’ll say hello!
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My reading/surfing time has been mighty limited, but even so I keep running into mighty good stuff I want to pass along….
Over at her always-worth-a-read Kidlit site, agent Mary Kole asks “Do Unpublished Writers Have to Blog?” She says no (and I agree with the “have to” part!), but if you read the comments, you’ll see I don’t agree with the whole post. You’ll also see lots o’ good comments and community in action, too. [click to continue reading…]
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One week! That’s how long it’s been since I’ve posted on either of my blogs. I’ve gone that long before, I’m sure, but this one was an unannounced silence. That’s new for me.
Was it an expected break? Nah. Could I have gotten a post up? Perhaps, but I didn’t (clearly!). Whenever something like this happens, I always review it to see if there are any useful takeaways for me. So… [click to continue reading…]
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I love social media, and I love people experimenting with it… so I was quite excited to see that Harold Underdown – editor, author, and creator of the children’s lit focused Purple Crayon website – was combining my loves in support of the 3rd edition of his The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Publishing Children’s Books.
In full disclosure, I own a copy of the first edition of the book and have read it cover to cover. I also happen to be a big fan of Harold’s insights and thought his experiment was well worth checking into.
So, I caught up with him and asked a few questions…. [click to continue reading…]
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It used to be that to get your visitor stats on a Blogger (or blogspot.com, if you prefer) blog, you needed to sign up for and install an outside “service” like Google Analytics or SiteMeter. That looks to change soon, however… and you can play with the new Stats service already. [click to continue reading…]
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