Illustration Friday: Cake

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Funny theme this week. This is cropped from an illustration for "The Prince's Diary" (Shen's Books, 2005). Okay - bonus t...

Georgia Center for the Book - Author Talk

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     I was the speaker at the Dekalb County Public Library last night as part of the "Author Talks" series hosted by the Georgia ...

Illustration Friday: Sorry

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This is an illustration from a mid-grade coming out this Fall, "Haley and the Big Blast." Can you tell what she did? It's a cu...

Samurai Shortstop!!

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I just had lunch with Alan Gratz. His new YA, "Samurai Shortstop," comes out Thursday (Dial). I got to read an ARC, and can I tell...

Ice-Cream Flavor Contest for the Georgia Special Olympics

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I had the honor of judging a new ice-cream flavor for Jake's Ice-cream last Saturday. Although all the flavors were completely yummy, th...

Illustration Friday: Angels and Devils

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I actually did this several years ago for Worth 1000 - a theme of opposites. Fit with the theme this week though, didn't it? Update: O...

Little Shop of Stories - Book Signing

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My book signing was on April 20th - but I just got the pictures the other day when I judged the ice-cream flavor contest at Jake's Ice-C...

Atlanta College of Art - graduating class review board

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      Rick Lovell , head of the illustration department at the Atlanta College of Art, recently invited me to review portfolios of the last ...

SCBWI-NY Portfolio Show

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     My pilgrimage to Mecca.      When I went through school, the internet didn't exist yet. The only way to get work as an illustrator ...

Thoughts on New York

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     I went to the SCBWI-NY portfolio show which I will write about above , but I want to talk about New York first, an amazing and unique p...

Illustration Friday: Spotted

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This is Hyena Jo - he's a graffiti artist, but doesn't have any walls to paint on - so he paints his tags on animals instead.

Kick-off Book Tour for GLITTER GIRL!

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WOW! WOW! WOW!      What a fabulous weekend and a wonderfully successful kick-off book signing for GLITTER GIRL AND THE CRAZY CHEESE at Pag...

Illustration Friday: Spring

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I'm late this week, but I have a good reason - we had our kick-off book signing for GLITTER GIRL AND THE CRAZY CHEESE in Fairhope, Alaba...

e's news - testing

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Oh, this is cool. I just sent out my latest newsletter today, announcing the release of GLITTER GIRL AND THE CRAZY CHEESE and listing book ...

Illustration Friday: MONSTER!!!

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     Gaads, I LOVE monsters!!! But only the friendly kind - y'know, they'd only eat you on a Tuesday if they were in a really bad mo...