#KidlitPR Transcript
Dianne de las Casas, Katie Davis and I host the monthly #KidlitPR tweetchat on the first Wednesday of each month at 6:00 pm EST. I had to bow out because of my surgery this month (and am a week late getting this posted as a result), but Katie posted the transcript on her blog at: http://katiedavis.com/tweetchat-transcript/ . Hope to see you next month!
Coloring Page Tuesday - Skeleton!
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Halloween is and it makes my bones feel like dancing!
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Halloween is and it makes my bones feel like dancing!
For more Halloween coloring pages, CLICK HERE!
Click the image to open a .jpg to print and color. Send your colored image (less than 1mb) to coloringpages@dulemba.com and I'll post it to my blog! Click here to find more coloring pages.
Unconventional Bookstores
Flavorwire recently put out a list of "10 Unconventional Bookstores For Your Browsing Pleasure." Indeed.
I especially like The Book Barge, which just parks along the canals in the UK (mostly in Staffordshire) and opens its doors. I wonder if they set loose while customers are inside? At 4 miles per hour, how long would you be able to read before you'd be lost?
The other one that caught my eye is in called "Kid's Republic Picture Book Store" in China. Is it a playground? Is it a bookstore? Is it a place that makes it fun to read? You betcha. (I wish my house looked like this!)
Thanks to PW Daily for the heads up.
I especially like The Book Barge, which just parks along the canals in the UK (mostly in Staffordshire) and opens its doors. I wonder if they set loose while customers are inside? At 4 miles per hour, how long would you be able to read before you'd be lost?
Coloring Page Tuesday - Fire Dog
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October is Fire Prevention Month, although the message is important throughout the year. Be careful with fire or Fire Dog will have to... lick you silly. Hm.
I'm a little late on fulfilling this coloring page request for Melissa... but I hope it comes in handy!
(New Halloween images begin next week - although you can dive into the archive now!)
Click the image to open a .jpg to print and color. Send your colored image (less than 1mb) to coloringpages@dulemba.com and I'll post it to my blog! Click here to find more coloring pages.
October is Fire Prevention Month, although the message is important throughout the year. Be careful with fire or Fire Dog will have to... lick you silly. Hm.
I'm a little late on fulfilling this coloring page request for Melissa... but I hope it comes in handy!
(New Halloween images begin next week - although you can dive into the archive now!)
Click the image to open a .jpg to print and color. Send your colored image (less than 1mb) to coloringpages@dulemba.com and I'll post it to my blog! Click here to find more coloring pages.
Foot Surgery
I don't talk about my health on my blog much, but Tuesday I'm having foot surgery and I could use a little help on this one. 
As some of you may know, I've been dealing with chronic plantar fasciitis for some time now. It's why I created my "Bad Foot Bear" back in March. We've tried everything and there's just no way around it, I'm goin' under the knife.
How can you help? Well, I'm going to be laid up for a while, then on crutches, and generally feeling frustrated and sorry for myself. I could use some mood lifters. SO!
Got any good jokes (please keep 'em mostly clean), funny stories, or general goofiness to share? Please post them in the comments below.
Knowing what a creative group of people you are - I can't wait to see what you come up with. And please let me express my thanks here in advance. I hope to be up and running (literally) again soon!
As some of you may know, I've been dealing with chronic plantar fasciitis for some time now. It's why I created my "Bad Foot Bear" back in March. We've tried everything and there's just no way around it, I'm goin' under the knife.
How can you help? Well, I'm going to be laid up for a while, then on crutches, and generally feeling frustrated and sorry for myself. I could use some mood lifters. SO!
Got any good jokes (please keep 'em mostly clean), funny stories, or general goofiness to share? Please post them in the comments below.
Knowing what a creative group of people you are - I can't wait to see what you come up with. And please let me express my thanks here in advance. I hope to be up and running (literally) again soon!
It's time for LULA'S BREW!!!
It's October and that means Halloween is just around the corner. Download my app LULA'S BREW to get in the spirit!
Lula's Aunties want her to be a witch like them. But Lula prefers to study cookbooks rather than spellbooks (and hates to fly on a broom). Lula wants to be a famous chef. In desperation, the Aunties insist she try to make one last potion. Lula secretly adds her cooking flair and in true witchy fashion creates a brew that bewitches the entire town, and her Aunties too!
LULA'S BREW is now available on the iPhone, iTouch, iPad, Nook Color, Kindle, and as a .pdf. Visit the activity page for all options (or click the image below) and to see some cool demo videos.
Lula's Aunties want her to be a witch like them. But Lula prefers to study cookbooks rather than spellbooks (and hates to fly on a broom). Lula wants to be a famous chef. In desperation, the Aunties insist she try to make one last potion. Lula secretly adds her cooking flair and in true witchy fashion creates a brew that bewitches the entire town, and her Aunties too!
LULA'S BREW is now available on the iPhone, iTouch, iPad, Nook Color, Kindle, and as a .pdf. Visit the activity page for all options (or click the image below) and to see some cool demo videos.
Rubber Bookshelves
Thanks to SwissMiss and BoingBoing for the heads up.
Jim Henson on making puppets
OMG - this is magic. Not only are the ideas simple (and great for classroom activities), but Jim sounds like Kermie as his little puppet creations come to life. How SWEET is this!? (Worth your time.)
Apparently this appeared on Public TV in 1969, BEFORE Sesame Street! (I wonder if this is pre-Kermie?)
Thanks to The Kid Should See This for the... hands up. *ahem*
Apparently this appeared on Public TV in 1969, BEFORE Sesame Street! (I wonder if this is pre-Kermie?)
Thanks to The Kid Should See This for the... hands up. *ahem*
Coloring Page Tuesday - Alien!
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A satellite is coming down. An illustrator caught flack for using the words to Bowie's Space Oddity. And space is well, just cool. I've got aliens on the brain! (With luck, they aren't after it.) Here's a friendly alien for you to color!
Be sure to share your creations in my Coloring Page Tuesday GALLERY at dulemba.com! (Click the icon below.) It's not just for card-makers - it's for everybody!
Click here to view the entire Coloring Page Tuesday collection.
Click the image to open a .jpg to print and color. Send your colored image (less than 1mb) to coloringpages@dulemba.com and I'll post it to my blog!
Click the iPhone to learn about my app - Lula's Brew - also available for the iPad, Nook and Kindle!
A satellite is coming down. An illustrator caught flack for using the words to Bowie's Space Oddity. And space is well, just cool. I've got aliens on the brain! (With luck, they aren't after it.) Here's a friendly alien for you to color!
Be sure to share your creations in my Coloring Page Tuesday GALLERY at dulemba.com! (Click the icon below.) It's not just for card-makers - it's for everybody!
Click here to view the entire Coloring Page Tuesday collection.
Click the image to open a .jpg to print and color. Send your colored image (less than 1mb) to coloringpages@dulemba.com and I'll post it to my blog!
Click the iPhone to learn about my app - Lula's Brew - also available for the iPad, Nook and Kindle!
The Kid Should See This
Photographer, Rion Nakaya posts about all kinds of things kids should see. Y'know, great art, music, inventions, history, science, tech, you name it. There is just a lot of awesome stuff in this world that kids may not learn about in school, but which they just shouldn't go without! Maybe they'll eventually be exposed to it, maybe not. Rion is out to make sure they are.
And there's plenty of cool stuff in there that I missed when I was a kid... so its for adults too!
Thanks to SwissMiss for the heads up!
It's a bike, it's a stroller...
Taga has come up with something truly inventive that I think a lot of my readers will be interested in. It's a stroller/bike. And after watching the videos, it looks super easy to use. And if you don't have kids, you can put a basket on it instead - use it to go shopping! How cool is this!? I love it when people are brilliant. (Click the image to go learn more.)
How My Home Affects My Writing
I was recently a guest poster on author Janni Lee Simner's blog where I wrote about "Place" - how where I live affects my writing. I went on about the Southern Appalachian Mountains and my inexplicable pull to North Georgia. I talk about Cicada swarms, floods, and rolling hills. Must admit, I was feeling rather romantic and nostalgic when I wrote it. I hope you'll go have a read! Click here: Guest Dispatches: Elizabeth O. Dulemba / Southern Appalachians.
SCBWI Midsouth Conference Wrap Up
Last weekend, I had the pleasure of speaking at the SCBWI Midsouth conference in Nashville, Tennessee. The Midsouth region (Tennessee and Kentucky) is dear to my heart partly because I lived in Chattanooga for ten years, but also because they're a lot like my Southern Breeze region (Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi). They have some incredibly awesome, talented and dedicated people running their region making it a tight-knit group of highly supportive folks. I've gotten to know many of them over the last few years when I spoke at the Southern Festival of Books, and well, frankly, I'd been dying to get up there for an actual conference.
Their Regional Advisor Genetta Adair asked me to talk about "Technology and the Future of Reading," which I did on Sunday to a full room (and will do again at our upcoming Southern Breeze Fall conference in Birmingham). Saturday, I was on a panel, "To Published Work and Beyond," with fellow creators: Newbery winner Linda Sue Park; illustrator Robert Blake; former RA and author Tracy Barrett; and author Ruta Sepetys. I also gave manuscript critiques to five new writers - one of whom won a prize for her work (yay!). It was a busy weekend!
Best of all, I got the chance to spend some quality time with the visiting speakers, including Alexandra Cooper (Senior Editor, S&S), Jim Hoover (Art Director, Viking), Emily Mitchell (Senior Editor, Charlesbridge), Michelle Poploff (VP/Exec.Editor Delacorte Press), and agents Tina Wexler (ICM) and Erin Murphy (Erin Murphy Literary). It's always a treat to get to know publishing folks behind the scenes, then also hear them speak about the work they love. I'm terrible with photos, but I did catch a few good quotes.
Along with hanging out with great people, I stopped in Chattanooga on my way home and drove by my old house. Not much has changed, and yet everything has. It was fun remembering and realizing how different my life is now - and how I never could have predicted it. I can't help but wonder what the next ten years hold!
Meanwhile, I hope there will be more conferences like this one. Being surrounded by peeps (like Genetta, Sharon, Susan, Courtney, Kristen, JD, Candie, etc. etc.) talking about things we all love, well, it don't get no better than that!
Their Regional Advisor Genetta Adair asked me to talk about "Technology and the Future of Reading," which I did on Sunday to a full room (and will do again at our upcoming Southern Breeze Fall conference in Birmingham). Saturday, I was on a panel, "To Published Work and Beyond," with fellow creators: Newbery winner Linda Sue Park; illustrator Robert Blake; former RA and author Tracy Barrett; and author Ruta Sepetys. I also gave manuscript critiques to five new writers - one of whom won a prize for her work (yay!). It was a busy weekend!
Best of all, I got the chance to spend some quality time with the visiting speakers, including Alexandra Cooper (Senior Editor, S&S), Jim Hoover (Art Director, Viking), Emily Mitchell (Senior Editor, Charlesbridge), Michelle Poploff (VP/Exec.Editor Delacorte Press), and agents Tina Wexler (ICM) and Erin Murphy (Erin Murphy Literary). It's always a treat to get to know publishing folks behind the scenes, then also hear them speak about the work they love. I'm terrible with photos, but I did catch a few good quotes.
"If you want to get good at writing, you have to put in the time." - Linda Sue ParkShe said this in relation to how long doctors study to do what they do, and lawyers and construction workers. Anybody who is really good at what they do, has had to put in serious time. Considering I just reached the ten year point in this industry, that was especially profound to me.
"It's not about you, it's about the story."Another one from Linda Sue about getting out of your own way. Stop saying "I" and just concentrate on the story. More relevant advice that was timely for me.
Along with hanging out with great people, I stopped in Chattanooga on my way home and drove by my old house. Not much has changed, and yet everything has. It was fun remembering and realizing how different my life is now - and how I never could have predicted it. I can't help but wonder what the next ten years hold!
Meanwhile, I hope there will be more conferences like this one. Being surrounded by peeps (like Genetta, Sharon, Susan, Courtney, Kristen, JD, Candie, etc. etc.) talking about things we all love, well, it don't get no better than that!
The Alphabet
The Alphabet 2 from n9ve on Vimeo.
Their Font Alphabet is cool too. :)
Thanks to "The Kid Should See This" for the heads up!
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