Writing – Picture Books – WRITERS' RUMPUS

Meet Karen Yin, Debut Picture Book Author

June 8, 2021 Carol Gordon Ekster

Karen Yin is in my picture book marketing group for 2022. But her debut picture book, Whole Whale, with Barefoot Books, illustrated by Nelleke Verhoeff,

June Picture Book Opportunities

June 1, 2021 Marianne Knowles

Welcome back to another month of Picture Book Opportunities! To see what’s available all year ’round, and what’s coming up the rest of the year,

Interview with Debut Picture Book Author/Illustrator, Shelley Johannes

May 25, 2021 Kim Chaffee

This is the book I didn’t know I needed right now. A story of siblings, seasons, and seeing the bright side of any day, More

Interview of Author Dawn Prochovnic

May 18, 2021 Kirsti Call

Dawn Prochovnic and I are in a 2021 marketing group and we’re also Rate Your Story Judges together. I’m thrilled to learn about her writing

Interview With Debut Author, Melanie Ellsworth

May 14, 2021 Kim Chaffee

For Melanie Ellsworth, the plan was to celebrate her debut picture book, Clarinet and Trumpet, in August of 2020 but COVID reared its ugly head and said, “hip, hip, no way!” A bummer to be bumped but now she gets to celebrate TWO book birthdays in two months and I’m so excited to chat with her about them both in today’s interview.