Tightening up the jacket sketch for Sprout Street Neighbors , my first chapter book, due out next year. 

Like many authors, I had a great laugh at these videos of children's authors reading their harsh online reviews . However, a...

"Of all the questions I have been asked as an author of children's books, the most frequent one, without doubt, has been ...

          As I mentioned in an earlier post , while packing, moving, and unpacking, I've unearthed some forgotten things. Another ...

    I take New Years Resolutions very seriously:  think about them and talk about them and write them down --and, I admit, sometimes fo...

At the hotel in Taiwan, a violinist serenaded us during breakfast. It was Rain Dragon's first experience with a violin and she w...

    Grace put the finishing touches on her gingerbread house, we took a picture, and then Grace presented the house to her dau...

    In NY now the Salvation Army people are all young and they don't just ring bells -- they DANCE. I was lucky enough to see two g...

Ugh. I haven't been posting because I have a bookdeadline and I have so much art to do! Help! Anyway, my pal Marc Tyler Noblema...

I’ve been away from blogging at Wild Rose Reader and Blue Rose Girls for so long that I thought I might forget how to ...

    I sent my novel off to my agent last week -- electronically, but towards the end I can read it more objectively on paper, penci...

I'll be selling books and prints once again at the RISD Alumni Holiday Art Sale (as will Grace!), this Saturday at the Rhode Islan...

    I am housesitting for Grace, and one of the many fun things about being here is reading the books! She owns complete sets of many o...

          I've posted about the Gallery Project before --this was the brainchild of Art Director Kirk Benshoff, and he brought it ...

And also in honor of Orson Welles's War of the Words 1938 Broadcast, I thought I'd post this: War of the Worlds . American ...