Yesterday I crawled out of my introvert’s cave, grabbed my proofs of SHE MADE A MONSTER and made my way to Bel & Bunna’s Books in Lafayette. I’ve been really nervous about doing marketing and promotion, but Bel McNeill was so kind and enthusiastic about my upcoming picture book debut that I felt at home… Continue reading Close Encounter with an Actual Bookseller!
Category: writing
Thoughts from Mary Shelley’s Mother
In honor of Women's History Month, I'd like to share some quotes from Mary Shelley's mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, author of the seminal feminist work A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). I think it reflects her time and the forces arrayed against her that Wollstonecraft is so skilled at shrewdly turning around the arguments of… Continue reading Thoughts from Mary Shelley’s Mother
Too Many Bears?
Last week I was responding to an Instagram post from the San Francisco Public Library ("What is the first book you remember reading?") and I wanted to check my memory and make sure there really was a book called Bears in the Night (or, as I read it out that first time, "Bears in the… Continue reading Too Many Bears?
