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FYI: In a effort to consolidate things, I'm going to start posting blog entries directly on the n ew author website .  I'll still ke...

Thanks to the team at KidLit411 for having me over on their blog to discuss the path to publication (including the all important step...

I was recently invited to review four books for the New York Times Book Review , which went online on May 5 (May 7 in the print edition). ...

The ALA Youth Media Award winners were just announced , which means it's time for EXTREME CALDECOTT PLACEMENT! This started last year ...

(Note: This post first appeared at the Huffington Post on December 8, 2015 . One of the reasons I'm drawn to children's literatur...

For Halloween, Jules Danielson invited Betsy Bird, Travis Jonker, and me to discuss some scary/spooky/wonderful books from the picture b...

I've been eagerly waiting the moment when I could share some art from our book coming out in June, so a HUGE THANKS to Travis Jonker for...

A few weeks ago, I was very excited/honored to be invited to Kidlitcon in Baltimore and speak on a panel about Visual Storytelling wit...

Note: This post originally appeared in the Huffington Post on 8/24/15 ( FLOAT by Daniel Miyares from Simon & Schuster ) As far ...