Black & Orange!

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     Penelope does it again!      The creator of the insanely popular Illustration Friday (which I try to participate in almost every Frida...

Pumpkin Carving!

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We had our annual pumpkin carving party Saturday. I've been throwing this party for about seven years now, and it's always so much f...

Illustration Friday: Wind

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Wippee! This week's theme fits with this piece I just finished for a friend. The wind is carrying their balloon away, when they suddenly...

Real Beauty

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Wow. You've got to see THIS . It's about how "real beauty" gets distorted in our society. I knew about make-up, and I even...

SCBWI Southern Breeze Fall Conference

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     Wow. I arrived home Sunday, unpacked, then fell on my bed. That was all she wrote.      What a great weekend. This is going to be hard ...

Illustration Friday: Ghost

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     Bwahahaha! I love Halloween. It's my fave.      This is a pencil spread from my picture book dummy, "Lula's Brew."   ...

Off to B'ham!

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     I leave for the SCBWI Southern Breeze Fall Conference in Birmingham, Alabama tomorrow. Now you may ask, why would anybody voluntarily ...

"Moi and Marie Antoinette"

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     Saturday, hubbie and I stopped by my favorite independent book store, Little Shop of Stories, to see Lynn Cullen sign her new picture b...

Illustration Friday: Smitten

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     This is an illustration from my first picture book, "The Prince's Diary." It's a Cinderella story, but from the Prin...

Stats Addiction

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     There's been an awful lot of talk lately about stats. Even editors and publishers aren't immune. So I thought I'd talk abo...

Thumbs Up for Thumbs Up

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We just had a new diner move in to our area, and the groovy thing . . . it's in walking distance. Okay, I know there are lots of places ...

Illustration Friday: Trouble

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      No Paco! Don't take the seeds!      Okay, well just about everything in my portfolio can fit with this week's theme, but then...

Lunch with Liz

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     It's what keeps me sane, lunch with friends. Working from home, it's often my only social contact. I get a bit o' cabin fev...

King Dork!

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     I just finished reading KING DORK by Frank Portman and I loved it.      King Dork is a high school boy at the bottom rung of the socia...

Podcasts and Audiobooks ROCK!

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     I’ve recently returned to something I used to love doing when I was a staff artist at Buster Brown Apparel (please don’t ask how long a...