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Don’t you love when people read picture books to you? Wait! No one does?! Never fear, I’m here! Today’s book is HORRIBLE BEAR! STATS! Title: HORRIBLE BEAR! Author: Ame Dyckman Illustrator: Zachariah Ohora Page Count: 32 Published by: Little Brown, 2016 First sentence: A girl peeked into Bear’s cave. Last Sentence: Nothing was horrible at…
Ok, if you remember correctly, I made the goal to write for at least 30 minutes everyday in July. How did I do? Sort of good? Is that a thing? I’ll break it down into “wins” and “could get betters” for the month! Wins: I did a lot of revising and writing. I took a…
Month? WHAT? Yup, I’m changing it up. I think I’m going to do better setting a big goal for the month, and reporting back that way. That’s the nice thing; we are always free to experiment and try something new. I’m not going to lie, the last two months of June hit me like a…
Last week’s goals: Get the revised editions of both stories to my agent, along with an email with my concerns, by the end of the day Wednesday. How did I do? Well, I did some more revising! Worked really hard to cross a lot of things off, work new things in, and delve a bit…
Hey everyone, I work at a fun indie bookstore in California. I’ll be sharing some fun stuff that happens when I work, just in case you’re curious as to what life is like on the side that sells books 🙂 Date worked: June 11th, 2016. Hours: from 10-5:30   ********************************************************* A boy came in asking for a…
The backstory (feel free to skip if you’ve read before!) I’m playing along with other picture book writers on this blog, setting some goals for the week and reflecting on how I did. I really wanted to do this because I’ve sort of been in a writing slump. I AM writing, but not as consistently…
The backstory (feel free to skip if you’ve read before!) I’m playing along with other picture book writers on this blog, setting some goals for the week and reflecting on how I did. I really wanted to do this because I’ve sort of been in a writing slump. I AM writing, but not as consistently…
The backstory (feel free to skip if you’ve read before!) I’m playing along with other picture book writers on this blog, setting some goals for the week and reflecting on how I did. I really wanted to do this because I’ve sort of been in a writing slump. I AM writing, but not as consistently…
The backstory (feel free to skip if you’ve read before!) I’m playing along with other picture book writers on this blog, setting some goals for the week and reflecting on how I did. I really wanted to do this because I’ve sort of been in a writing slump. I AM writing, but not as consistently…
The backstory (feel free to skip if you’ve read before!) I’m playing along with other picture book writers on this blog, setting some goals for the week and reflecting on how I did. I really wanted to do this because I’ve sort of been in a writing slump. I AM writing, but not as consistently…