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A Writing Group to Celebrate
…Dyer. They’re a talented bunch. Paula is a playwright, translator, and drama teacher. Lena is an author of picture books and short stories who has recently signed a contract for…
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Jan Coates, An Alumnus of the Seaside Writing Workshop
…and the other workshops participants. During the hours of quiet writing time on Nova Scotia’s south shore, Jan worked on her picture books – and she responded to a writing…
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Why did you want to be a writer?
I’ve loved reading books for longer than I can remember. (That’s me in the picture, reading in my gramma’s backyard.) As an adult, I started to wonder if I would…
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What do you like writing better? Picture books or novels?
I love the spareness of a picture book, paring down sentences to their bare essentials. It’s a bit like writing poetry. But I also like being involved with characters for…
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A Star for Starfall
I’m doing as much editing as writing these days. One of the projects I’ve been working on as editor is a picture book collaboration between two newcomers to the world…
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Do you get along well with your publishers?
…been lucky to have worked with Rick Wilks at Annick Press on almost all my picture books, with Mary Macchiusi at Pembroke on my books about writing, and with a…
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Books About Writing
…inspiring group. Among many books recommended as we discussed the writers’ works-in-progress were a number about writing. Writing Picture Books: What Works & What Doesn’t by Kathy Stinson. An updated…
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Congratulations, You’re #10,995!
…Amazon to tell them that the Twilight series sells more books than the Our Canadian Girl series, or that R.L. Stine sells more books than Kathy Stinson. “Kathy Who? #10,995?…
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Writing Picture Books
…write better books, but not many with the specific purpose of helping writers write better picture books. Why is this? Because writing picture books is too easy for anyone to…
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Help For Your Picture-Book-Writing Woes
…not! From Chapter 4 of Writing Picture Books: What Works & What Doesn’t: “I thought I had a good idea for a story, but what I’ve written seems to be…
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