Woo-hoo!
How is everyone doin?
(I’m a little excited about this upcoming writing conference, can you tell?)
18 books this week!
Most of the picture books I read in a bookstore, waiting for a prescription.
I had horrible headaches for about a week, and finally went to the doctor.
She said it sounded like I was getting over one infection while getting another.
I headed to the bookstore while I waited for my sinus infection medicine.
I decided I wanted to do superlatives this week, so here we go:
Most likely to inspire some collage artwork of your own:
Best cyborg/fairytale mashup
Best “you better put your egos aside and get along or the egg won’t survive” story:
Most likely to make you want to go scuba diving;
Most ridiculous use of mustache in children’s literature;
Most likely to make you laugh, cry, and look at your life in a different way:
Best weaving together of puppets, magic, friendship and historical fiction;
Most likely to make you want to open your dictionary;
Most likely to make you want to pick up a paintbrush!
Best combo of non-fiction and illustrations;
Most fun you will have flipping a book;
Best way to talk to children about the power of telling the truth:
Most likely to make you say, “Awww” and look for little awesome moments in life;
Best counting/learn about gorillas and monkey books;
Most likely to make you want to be yourself, whatever that may be:
Best Dystopian YA I’ve read in a while;
Most likely to draw out a southern drawl;
Most likely to be opened again and again:
Here’s my total so far:
And some fun stats! (The big number next to 2013 is how many pages I’ve read!)
This week I also had fun working on some of my stories.
I FINALLY sent out an 8 pack of them to some people for them to read.
The cool thing was, the group of people was so different.
Only a few were critique partners;
the rest were teachers, friends, and people who liked to read.
It was so interesting to get such varied feedback;
especially about which ones everyone liked the best!
I’m bringing 6 officially (and by that, I mean I have to go run copies of those!)
for critiquing,
because I believe you can never be too prepared,
and a few more, one copy each, in case I get inspired to revise or want to show someone.
I’m going to do a post about what I’m bringing to the conference soon;
or maybe I’ll have Singe Singe do it, since he mostly packs pretty light 🙂
Also, I’ll be doing the March Madness Poetry Tournament again this year
Stay tuned for more info!
What is everyone reading this week?
I can’t wait to find out the next selection in my book club (meeting this Thursday),
go to the conference!
and start March.
I feel like good things are coming in March!
As always, we’re enthusiastically yours,
KE and Singe Singe
Good luck at your conference! I hope you will have exciting news to share!
Holy cow! I am on Dr. Seuss overload at our house this week! It is very crazy time for the blog. I try to curate lots of great ideas plus come up with original ideas of my own! Yikes, it is busy!
We also pulled out Uri Shulevitz books this week too. His birthday is today, Feb. 27. I forgot how much I love ONE MONDAY MORNING and THE TREASURE.
Happy to see you read WHEN BLUE MET EGG. Lindsay Ward is a member of my local SCBWI chapter.
Another good post!
Great post, friend! I’m sorry to hear you had headaches this past week. I hope the sinus infection medicine does its job and you feel 100% better by the conference.