NaPiBoWriWee has come and gone, and while I have to admit that I have not even one completed picture book to show for my efforts, I do have a few new ideas in the works. In the meantime, I’ve been working on a revision of another story, and I think it might finally finally (!) [...]
Paula Yoo put out the challenge to write 7 picture books in 7 days and I decided to give it a try. Oh, I how I wish I hadn’t, because the fact that I’ve got the beginnings of 10 new picture books isn’t much consolation when only one of them is actually far enough along [...]
I've lived and traveled around the world, but now make my home in California.
By day, I teach; evenings and many weekends, I write.
My teaching, reading, and writing eventually led to a Master's degree in Language and Literacy and, later, an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
My first picture book, BLUE ON BLUE, is forthcoming from Beach Lane Books (Simon and Schuster).