Vonna | January 25, 2010
This past Friday night, I had an opportunity to hear Becca Fitzpatrick talk about her NYT Bestseller, HUSH HUSH. A standing-room-only crowd filled Blue Willow Bookshop in Houston to get a chance to hear Becca and have her sign their books.
I saw a few writers from Houston’s SCBWI chapter, and Becca recognized some of her [...]
Vonna | January 18, 2010
All of the sad talk about the current state of the publishing industry can make an aspiring writer wring her hands in dismay, but I would like to take a moment to point out something for which all aspiring writers can be grateful: the many authors, editors and agents who so generously share their knowledge [...]
Vonna | January 11, 2010
Last week, our Houston SCBWI group had Lucy Chambers from Bright Sky Press as our guest speaker. Lucy, an editor with Bright Sky, talked to us about the need for creative approaches to having a book published in these hard times. One of the case studies she talked to us about was Our Shadow Garden, [...]
Vonna | January 4, 2010
The neighbor’s cat (I’ve dubbed him Snickerdoodle because his fur looks like a sugar cookie dusted with cinnamon) is stalking in my garden. He hasn’t been out for a while; probably been lying inside by the fireplace for the past two weeks, shirking his duties of keeping the lizard population down. Bad news, cat—the lizards [...]
