Introduction
Welcome to my blog, it will document my quest of becoming a picture book Author and Illustrator. I am an Artist, Teacher and Mother with a couple of manuscripts and picture book dummies on the go. I...
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Sociable SCBWIs
I love how friendly the world of children's literature is, especially SCBWIs. Last week I went to dinner with my SCBWI crit group friends as part of Teri Terry's trip up North. From left to right -...
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Writing a Picture Book in Scrivener - Free Scrivener Template
Isn’t Scrivener just the best writing app in the world? It is so versatile and reasonably priced. Many different sorts of writers use it for lots of kinds of work. Personally, I’ve got the start of...
View ArticleUpdate! - Scrivener Picture Book Template for the PC
In my last blog post I shared with you my Scrivener Picture Book Template and I was pleasantly surprised to see that I had over 200 downloads! I had some great feedback from the kidlit community,...
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Honey Bea - Pencil Portrait
Here's a commission I've just completed for my friend's 40th birthday. An imaginary pencil portrait of her honey moon baby, the beautiful Bea.
View ArticleHow to use my Scrivener Picture Book Template - A Free Video Tutorial
I have finally created a video tutorial for my Scrivener Picture Book Template which I released a couple of months ago. I hope that it is useful as it is my first go at demonstrating software on video....
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The I in SCBWI - Illustrators!
Yesterday saw the visit of illustrators and SCBWI members Anne-Marie Perks and Bridget Stevens-Marzo to Seven Stories, The National Centre For Children’s Books. They were here to hang the SCBWI...
View ArticlePicture Book Anatomy - How a Picture Book is Made Affects How you Write One.
When writing a picture book you need to be aware of their strict formatting which is dictated by how they are made. Picture books are commonly made up of 32 pages, only it is not as simple as that,...
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Creating A Children’s Picture Book Illustration Portfolio - Where to Start? -...
I finished this illustration this week and added it to my portfolio. I am hesitant to call my portfolio a ‘children’s picture book illustration portfolio’ at this moment in time, not because I am not...
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#Inktober - The Benefits of Participating in an Online Challenge
Inktober is a drawing challenge to make one ink drawing a day for the entire month of October. Inktober was started in 2009 by an artist called Jake Parker, who set himself the challenge to improve...
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Creating A Children’s Picture Book Illustration Portfolio - Format and...
In my first post on the subject of Creating A Children’s Picture Book Illustration Portfolio I talked about the quantity and quality of the images. In this post I’d like to explore format and content,...
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Video Training for the Aspiring Picture Book Author and Illustrator
Christmas is coming, what do you get the Aspiring Picture Book Author and Illustrator in your life? How about some training videos? Here are my recommendations:Computer Boy by Claire...
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New Year's Resolutions
Well it has been one year since I actively started blogging so I thought my first post of 2015 should be a review of 2014 and establish some New Year Resolutions. In my very first post I stated that...
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Reading to Write - Why the Aspiring Picture Book Author and Illustrator Needs...
Part of the process of writing and illustrating children’s picture books involves reading them, lots of them, and not just reading them to children but really studying them and analysing them for...
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Creating A Children’s Picture Book Illustration Portfolio - Tips for...
This post continues my series about creating a children’s picture book illustration portfolio. First I covered quantity and quality and then I covered format and content. In this post I dig deeper into...
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01 - Spread Of Wonder: House In The Night
This post marks the first in a monthly series! I’m calling this series Spread Of Wonder and I’m going to talk about spreads* from picture books that I admire because it will be nice to share with you...
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02 - Spread Of Wonder: Oh No, George!
This is the second post in my series ‘Spread Of Wonder’ where I talk about spreads from picture books that I admire, I look at them and analyse why I think they make a good spread. This month’s spread...
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Promotion
I have had quite a fun-filled children’s book-related month so far, I have been to some promotional events, I have even been promoted myself and there are some great opportunities for more promotion to...
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03 - Spread Of Wonder: The Robot and the Bluebird
Welcome to the third post in my ‘Spread Of Wonder’ series where I talk about spreads from picture books that I admire, I look at them and analyse why I think they make a good spread. This month’s...
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Sociable SCBWIs - Rebecca Colby
I have written before here and here about how how friendly the world of children's literature is and I am going to do it again in this post. Last month, when I asked my online friend, fellow SCBWI...
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