Patsy’s Book Party
Patsy’s Book Party, a set on Flickr. My former English professor, dear friend, and stunning poet Patsy Cumming recently gifted me her collection of children’s books from her youth and from her daughters’ childhoods. Children’s book illustrators, Jamie Hogan and Mary Anne Lloyd joined me to sort through the titles and to spirit away their favorites into the night. Share...
Read MoreRaising Readers Selects…
Curious City’s proudest contribution to Raising Readers is preselecting 80-100 children’s books for ages 0-4 for the honorable Raising Readers Book Selection Committee to review. The committee gathers annually to rank and comment on board books and picture books. Four hours of children’s book critique with the doctors, home visiting nurses, early childhood educators, literacy specialists, parents, and others is an experience that always enlightens and surprises me. Out of those conversations and title rankings come the annual Raising Readers book collection...
Read MoreSCBWI Intros Authors to Professional Publicists
Lynda Mullaly Hunt, fab children’s author and grand human, wrote a wonderful post about Curious City’s appearance at the Eric Carle Museum for NESCBWI’s presentation, Working with a Book Marketing Consultant. Curious City and their clients Cathryn Falwell and Anne Sibley O’Brien joined Deborah Sloan and Company and her clients to discuss the relationship between a children’s book marketing consultant and a children’s book creator. Read it HERE. Share...
Read MoreCurious Collaborators
Thank you to NESCBWI for inviting Deborah Sloan & Company and Curious City to talk to authors and illustrators about “Working with a Book Marketing Consultant.” It was delicious to hear about Deborah’s services and to meet her clients, author/illustrator Patricia Intriago and author, Deborah Heiligman. The unexpected delight came from the prep and delivery of Curious City’s history, mission, and projects. Out of the chatter on the snow-bound, sun-scorched road trip, the downstairs Northampton curry dinner, and the Eric Carle Museum exchange of marketing...
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,...
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