Dot Day was yesterday, but I sort of wanted to let my video post have the entire day. Never fear, I still made a Dot! Dot Day is a celebration of creativity inspired by Peter Reynold’s book, The Dot. Check it out if you haven’t read it; it’s amazing, sweet, and will inspire anyone to…

Ok, I’ve been wanting to say this for a while now, and now I finally can! Watch the video to find out more! Spoiler alert, this video contains: a cool shirt singing bloopers and my handsome BF! Yes! It’s true! I got a book deal! Here’s the announcement from Publisher’s Weekly: Kathy Ellen Davis’s TA…

Good afternoon everyone! Today I woke up with lots of things on my to-do list, mostly creative endeavors, yet when I got out of bed, I immediately reached for my computer. “What’s with that?” I asked myself. Did I want to revise a manuscript, because that’s great! Did I want to write? Also great. Nope.…

This has been a fun week. Back in Santa Cruz, and back to real life I suppose. Here are some things I found interesting this week: Gene Luen Yang‘s speech about diversity in children’s books will inspire you, guaranteed. This publisher’s choice to NOT sell their new book on Amazon. Pump up your writing and…

I’ve got another new idea. This time, it’s concerning poetry. I think it’s a wise idea to read poetry aloud, but for some reason, I haven’t been doing it. So I’m going to pick a book a month and read it aloud, hoping that the words have fun dancing around in my mouth and then…

Hi everybody! Welcome to my latest idea: A kidlit tea party! Where did it come from? I heard about a kidlit tea thing going on somewhere in Northern CA. San Francisco? Oakland? somewhere about an hour and a half away. It sounded AWESOME. Kidlit people gathering around, drinking tea, and talking about their goals for…

Yes, no web roundup last week. I was a bit busy. More on that later 🙂 A lot of these are classic bookmarks that I’m pulling out and sharing because they’ve been on my bookmark menu for WAY too long. See if you saw these back in the day 🙂 You may not be a…

Hi everyone! How’s your week? Here’s some links for you, and a picture 🙂 Video: Excellent and quick plotting advice from South Park creators. Two words that will change the way you look at plot! Oh my goodness. I want them all, and in all the colors. I love Sean Wes. Here’s a post about…

  I love those posts where people post links of cool things from the web. Also, it will be a good way for me to hold onto some favorites! And, because I want to put a picture, I’ll add a fun one from instagram 🙂 Creative routines, ripe for the stealing. Video: Watch this and…