When I met with my publisher, Angus Yuen-Killick at Red Comet Press, we kicked around ideas to promote all the Red Comet Press authors in the Boston area, who are also friends of mine. It seemed too ambitious to set up Storytimes or Author Visits. Angus suggested that we contact bookstores in advance to see…
Please welcome my friend and children’s book author, Kathleen Choi, with her list of 6 Picture Books About Gratitude, Culture, and Intergenerational Connection. I went to college with her husband and met her during a class reunion. She also lived in Newton, MA, though we never ran into each other at the grocery store! We…
I always enjoy going to Lisa Rogers’ book events. I didn’t realize that I was slightly familiar with John Cage, the subject of her most recent picture book, Beautiful Noise: The Music of John Cage, illustrated by Il Sung Na. At her book launch at Wellesley Books, I learned that he was a kind of…
Please welcome my friend and fellow author, Lisa Rogers, with her 10 Picture Books About Listening to the World Around Us list! Her newest picture book celebrates musician John Cage. We are giving away a copy of Beautiful Noise AND a picture book critique for a manuscript that is less than 700 words and non-rhyming….