WORDS@WORK: October 2012

Friday, October 19, 2012

It's the berries!

✍✎ It's Freewheelin' Friday! ☄✒

Dedicated to Artistic Endeavors of all Sorts

Once upon a time

When I had black hair and toddlers,

genre romance was full of cowboys & ranches

penthouses & limousines.

I discovered it was a whole lot easier to

write about what was right under my nose in

coastal Massachusetts.

So I hung around the bogs, strapped on some waders, corralled some cranberries

& created six hard working siblings.

Mid-October's come around again.

Time to to salute Kevin, Sean, Drew,
Ryan, Jody & Matthew:
my Branigan brothers.

Yup! The most fun a girl can have on paper.

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Sherman the one legged pigeon soars!

Barbara O'Connor's latest mid-grade delight

has made its debut.

I've blogged about the book and the trailer recently so to celebrate I'm reposting my June salute to illustrator Greg Call. His spot on rendition of the elusive Sherman, the one-legged pigeon at the heart of this merry romp, is the perfect image to launch young imaginations. (old ones, too)

Here's what I had to say in June:

I've waxed poetic in past blogs on my love of children's book illustration, illustrators & the influence of the Golden Age (Howard Pyle et al) Now comes a salute to Greg Call, some covers evocative of N.C.Wyeth but so fabulously his own.