Guest Post: Elizabeth Withey on how her own life inspired The One with the Scraggly Beard
In a guest post for the Orca Blog, Elizabeth Withey explains how her idea for The One with the Scraggly Beard came from her own family’s experiences.
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Guest Post: No, I Will Not Stop Talking About Queer Pride
The following post was written by Robin Stevenson. I was standing in front of about fifty children, enthusiastic and curious fifth graders, talking about my book Pride: Celebrating Diversity and Community. I’d just finished telling them about the Stonewall Riots, showing them photos of the Stonewall Inn, and of the …
Guest Post: Marthe Jocelyn Sees Art Everywhere
The following post is written by Marthe Jocelyn, creator of One Red Button and One Piece of String. You asked how I would describe my creative process? Well…I see something…a lost button on an elevator or a single mitten on a park bench or a note tucked under a windshield …
Guest Post: Putting Together an Illustration
The paperback edition of Uncle Wally’s Old Brown Shoe by Wallace Edwards is on shelves now. The following post is written by Wallace Edwards. The idea for Uncle Wally’s Old Brown Shoe came to me while I was sketching an old shoe of all things. It occurred to me that …
Woman with a pomegranate: the story behind Rossetti’s portrait
Author Melanie Jackson talks about her new novel, Death Drop: In his famous portrait of Persephone, Dante Gabriel Rossetti shows the young woman of myth having just taken a bite out of a pomegranate. Persephone’s gloomy, brooding expression conveys that she knows quite well she should have left the delicious …
Author Feature: Shane Peacock
#TuesdayTalk with Shane Peacock, author of Separated, one of The Seven Prequels. Tell us a bit about your book. Separated is my Seven Prequels novel, a middle grade novel that precedes Last Message in Seven (the Series) and Double You in The Seven Sequels. In the prequels, grandfather McLean is …