Tag: picture books
Posted on December 8, 2010
by Catherine Austen
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The new kitten People always ask writers, “Where do you get your ideas?” (Okay, not many people have asked me that yet, but once I have more titles to my credit, they’ll start asking.) Really good ideas for a book – the sort of premises Michael Chricton… Continue Reading “Where do you get your Ideas?”
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Posted on November 21, 2010
by Catherine Austen
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Writing isn’t going so well for me just now–I’m scattered among different projects and I keep going back and forth between two possible plot directions in my sequel to All Good Children. Not good. I don’t like writing blind. I don’t want to whine — that’s why I haven’t… Continue Reading “Fall Faves”
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Posted on September 27, 2010
by Catherine Austen
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I intended to exercise this morning but my pets conspired against me. I haven’t exercised for twelve days due to a bout of bronichiitis that shows no sign of improvement. I fear that all my weight-lifting gains are fading fast. Compare me twelve days ago (left) to me… Continue Reading “Exercise and Anglerfish”
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Posted on September 8, 2010
by Catherine Austen
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In 2008, after several years of writing for children, I had the good fortune to sell two manuscripts in the same year: a picture book to Kids Can Press in the spring; and a middle-grade novel to Orca Book Publishers in the fall. I did not understand… Continue Reading “Feast and Famine”
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Posted on January 21, 2010
by Catherine Austen
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I opened an email last week to find a message from my editor at Kids Can Press with a file attachment showing the revised roughs of my first picture book. What a treat! I can’t include a picture here, of course. You’ll have to wait… Continue Reading “Illustrations and other Surprises”
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