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is a wonderful opportunity for illustrators and writers to get their picture book critiqued. 😊😊📚✍️

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2019-10-10

A hilarious spin on neurodiversity is this book. My autistic son LOVED it.

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2019-08-08

Honored to have created this logo for ’s endeavors. (Justin will be applying fonts as needed.) Go forth and make picture book stuff, my friends!

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2019-07-28

Why isn't anyone snapping up your Talking Beet picture book manuscript? https://t.co/LM0GxnlmtS from blog and Natascha Biebow.

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2019-07-26

NEW! podcast Interview w/ author abt her debut HOW COULD A BEAR SLEEP HERE w/ On all podcast apps OR listen here: https://t.co/pzjGq6fWhQ

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2019-07-16

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Illustrator Spotlight & GIVEAWAY w/ Megan Higgins!

Postcards by Megan are up for grabs! Contest ends 7/2

RT & SUBSCRIBE to enter



https://t.co/Q52RX8UvDX

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2019-07-02

Our weekly big list of kid lit links is up (June 21): https://t.co/BliduU5pfh Inside: PB writing tips, 's mentorships, more. Thanks to Yuna Cheong for the illustration and & for the YA & PB giveaways.

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2019-06-22

Published One Week of Pirate Poems on Kindle (the first of the series I've used Kindle Create for, so I had to get to grips with that too)

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2019-06-13

I'm a visual thinker. I see what I write before I write it.
I saw: "The sun needs to rise, but the Rooster's in bed..." before I wrote the words or painted them.

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2019-06-13

Because I am a purist of a painter, I don't like the words or the page numbers to mess with my art. Yet, I don't like books without words. To compromise, I paint the scene that I want, but I allow the watercolor to fade for words.

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2019-06-13

My characters tend to have big lips. Here some watercolor illustrations and Copic marker sketches of some of my crew

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2019-06-13

I've undertaken the task of learning to create characters in Adobe Illustrator. When I was in art school, only the government spies had computers. lol I made this goldfish on day 3 of my journey.

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2019-06-13

I rest for a while, and then, I garden. If I need to learn something new [like Adobe Illustrator}, I work on that. When I get back into a work mode [doing something else], I can get back on track.

Images: Jacki Kellum Illustrations

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2019-06-06

Lady Pancake & Sir French Toast was a slush pile submission to ( - who's no longer there, dug it out).

Sterling currently still has open submissions: https://t.co/K6B6n9gByP

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2019-05-30

Answer to question last night: "What is Your Philosophy?"

No Regrets about Time that I Seem to Have Wasted on Paintings and Stories that Don't Sell. The Experience Creating a Thing Is Its Own Reward!

Image - Sad, Sad Pig - Jacki Kellum Watercolor Study

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2019-05-10

If I had a Talk Show, My First Three Guests Would Be Peter Rabit, The Velveteen Rabbit, and Max, who wore the Wolf Suit. To answer the Bonus Question--The topic of the talk show would be: "What exactly made me impossible to forget? Why will I live forever?"

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2019-05-09

That is a real problem. At a request, I did a rewrite from rhyme to non-rhyme, and the results were tragic.

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2019-05-09