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To create the best picture book, an art director will choose an artist who will draw what no one else could imagine from the text. My words -- I imagined a sly crocodile. Nina Rycroft's illustration: croc tempts bird with Fred Astaire dance moves. Brilliant!!!

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2021-10-11

Chapter One
Chalk swished her vivid pink hair and scanned the night sky. With the Star Wars theme blasting in her earbuds, she wondered if each distant star had its own exhilarating saga of empires and rebellions, heroes and villains, darkness and light.
Day 9

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2021-10-09

Day 8:

I am currently in the middle these books. Very different, but I'm enjoying both. I'm also doing a re-read of Sabaa Tahir's An Ember in the Ashes, just because her prose are so beautiful and her scenes are incredibly visceral.

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2021-10-08

: Ink
I’ve been MIA the last few days of Poe prompts, mainly because I’ve been swamped with pet portrait commissions. I figured what better way to hop back on than with ink - this is one of the watercolor and ink commissions I’ve been working on.

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2021-10-08

Abstract - maybe not super abstract. I draw a piece of digital art for every manuscript I write. This one was for Black Butterfly, an adult suspense.

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2021-10-07

Oct 2: Goals this month

-finish Moth Pit draft
-finish Galaxy Knight draft
-get Flowers for Fara ready for self pub
-revising
-#NaNoWriMo

Pictured: my new luna moth plush which I have named Erris after my MC in Moth Pit.

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2021-10-03

My goal for October is prepping to write my Nanowrimo book.
A soldier & a queen. One tasked with guarding a king, one desperate to escape amidst assassination attempts & brewing civil war. Only one will get what they want.

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2021-10-03

Hey guys! I’m Keisha. I’m an artist and writer who also happens to run a farm, has two wonderful kiddos and a pretty cute husband.

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2021-10-02

Hi y’all! I’m Megan and I submitted a Paranormal Romance/Contemporary Fantasy for my first ever ! I love power of friendship stories and resolving love triangles with polyamory. Let’s be friends :3

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2021-10-02

We’re in the home stretch of the presidential race of 2020. Jacki Kellum procreate drawing: Mrs. Cow is Over the Moon.

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2020-11-05

Everyone who writes or illustrates for children owes a huge debt to The Golden Age of Picture Book Illustration. I am reading this book now.

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2020-10-31

My very favorite for is Pumpkin Eye by Limited text. Dynamic created with poured pulp. Perfect for with young children.

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2020-10-31

Although I and silly, funny stuff, too, My favorite projects are those that speak to the heart. Jacki Kellum Chalk Boy with Curls

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2020-10-30

and Sasha illingworth, Executive Art Director at Little Brown

have been great game changers for me this year. In a private zoom meeting with Sasha, she helped me to realize the value of traditional

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2020-10-27


This is a OTI of small, but chibi characters of my nano project make me smile

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2020-10-26

something small

I’ve been paralyzed into inaction waiting for announcements, but this week I made the SMALL step of beginning to plan for a new WIP. Now it’s all I can think about!

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2020-10-26

Action Jackson, a about Jackson Pollock, is a great read and a great study for anyone who wants to write a bio for kids. Immediately, the reader is told that some of the story is imagined. The loose style fits me, too.

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2020-10-24

Yesterday, an editor encouraged me about my about He recommended Action Jackson {Jackson Pollock] as a model to help me with some of the awkward spots in my book. Great Book!

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2020-10-24

The Agony and the Ecstasy of being a is that you love to collect books, but then you have difficulty finding time to read them. Yet, reading fuels my writing. I am declaring every Friday as a time that I'll at least a bit from my books

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2020-10-24

Character studies for my manuscript Pete's Circus, which is set during the Great Depression. [no caged animals or cruelty involved]. A publisher says these remind him of illustrations in The Return of the Dapper Men.

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2020-10-24