Reunited Tour Bus
A road novel should have its very own transportation. Right? To support the Boston to Austin Level3 Reunited Tour for Hilary Weisman Graham’s YA novel Reunited, Curious City created a pop-up photo booth that allows you to be in the PeaPod, the book’s infamous vintage VW van. The photo booth was inaugurated at Hilary’s launch party with all the guests crowding in to wave out the front window. The spare tire happens to sport the national offer to text for free book chapters and band MP3s. As photos of the booth are shared on those mighty social...
Read MoreMECA is Haute: An Illustration Assignment for the Gods
I had the undeniable pleasure of talking book covers and the children’s book business with illustrator Mary Anne Lloyd’s small and hearty band of Maine College of Art (MECA) Illustration students today about the mighty YA series, Sirenz. Curious City played Art Director today assigning the cover design for Sirenz (Book 3) which will appear as an e-book in 2013. Students gasped over the opening disaster featured in Book 1’s trailer in one breath and analyzed the covers of Book 1 and Book 2 in the next. Seeing no connection between the design of the first two covers,...
Read MoreRaising Readers Presents…Launches
Raising Readers Presents…launched on Read Across America Day with an evening of readings and activities associated with John and Ann Hassett’s picture book, Too Many Frogs!. Curious City was delighted to help plan and MC the event at the Children’s Museum and Theatre of Maine. A discussion with pediatrician Dr. Osborne of South Portland Pediatrics about Raising Readers was followed by a reading by the Hassetts and a painting activity that delivered a lesson on the amazing attributes of frogs. Share...
Read MoreA Warmer World
As the snow starts to fall in Maine during a winter that has seen so little snow, one might wonder and worry about “a warmer world.” Author Caroline Arnold brought a manuscript to Charlesbridge Publishing that outlined just that–a warmer world and how different species have been lost, have struggled, and have adapted to a globe that spins now without the insulation it so desperately needs. The manuscript landed with Jamie Hogan, an illustrator whose attention to detail reflects an innate tenderness for both the world she can see and the world she curiously...
Read MoreSamantha Clark Wins!
Children’s book author Samantha Clark has won two free hours of Curious City marketing consultation! How did she find herself in such a position? She attended our children’s book self-promotion workshop at the Austin SCBWI Conference and her list of marketing questions was pulled randomly from our sweet pile. Looking forward to her future publications and any help Curious City can be to building her readership! Cheers Samantha! Share...
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