Ride a Fast Horse: WordPress Q&A
Thanks to all the clever creators at the Wild, Wild Midwest SCBWI Conference for attending my “Speak Your Mind, But Ride a Fast Horse: Rework Your Online Presence with WordPress” workshop. We did the workshop Q&A as a write-in and I hope these answers might help you in your ride Westwards into web development. (Feel feel to ride over to our partner Q&A about Marketing, All Hat, No Cattle, here.) NEW TO THE WEB? If I am just getting started, where should I start? You need three things (maybe four). 1) You need a domain name. This is what the www.______________.com will...
Read MoreGot Uke
Got Uke? No? No worries, your library does. Portland, Maine library card holders can now check out ukuleles and equally hip young adult books from the Teen Room of the Portland Public Library. Based on a madcap idea by Portland Public Library teen staff member, Michael Whittaker, local businesses Curious City and Moose County Music and Surf teamed up to create a Ukulele Lending Library. Four ukuleles were donated by Moose County and named by Curious City after teen books in the Portland Public Library collection. LEARN more about Curious City’s new program UkeLit! “This is...
Read MoreDonate a Coretta Scott King Honor Book
Curious City likes to see fine books doing their good work in the world. In celebration of the honor bestowed upon Daniel Minter by the Coretta Scott King Award Committee of the American Libraries Association for the illustrations in Ellen’s Broom, Curious City and Daniel Minter’s colleagues and friends are donating copies of the book to the The National Museum of African American History and Culture’s education department at the Smithsonian. Marcia and Daniel Minter ELLEN’S BROOM Lino Cut ELLEN’S BROOM Lino Cut ELLEN’S BROOM Illustration...
Read MorePress Gang Audio
The astounding educators of the Breakwater School are leading their students to piracy! With Scott Nash’s chapter book, The High-Skies Adventures of Blue Jay the Pirate (Candlewick Press) as their piratical press gang, students will be performing a “flash mob” performance of a chapter from the swashbuckling tale. To give the performance the framework and mast of Nash’s written word, Curious City partnered with audiobook producer William Dufris of Mind’s Eye Productions to record Breakwater students reading and acting pieces from the chapter. ...
Read MoreAuthor Has Mercy (And TV Appearance)
Children’s author Sarah L. Thomson was invited by the producers of the Travel Channel’s program Monumental Mysteries to recount the strange life (and death) of Mercy Brown, the inspiration for Sarah’s young adult novel, Mercy: The Last New England Vampire (Islandport Press). After all of the research Sarah did on the 19th Century tuberculosis outbreak that led bizarrely to accusations of vampirism, Curious City built a website for the book and encouraged Sarah to blog about her research and other connections to Mercy Brown and the modern vampire craze. The...
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