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 MoreSeeing Stars
Looking at a roomful of creator stars at SCBWI Austin. Author and web designer Samantha Clark and Kirsten Cappy of Curious City are doing a live presentation of WordPress! Look, friends, we created a post! Look for upcoming Curious City speaking engagements and workshops here. AND websites created by Samantha Clark and Curious City here. Share...
Read MoreStorytelling Post by Post, Page by Page
Curious City is head over pixels to be partnering with children’s author and web maven, Samantha (Sam) Clark. Since meeting each other at a SCBWI Conference in Austin in February ’12, conversations about our mutual geek passion for the website/blog builder, WordPress have turned into a partnership of building new author and book websites and converting outmoded ones. In just a few months we have built a website for middle grade author Natalie Dias Lorenzi and converted authors Jennifer Carson, Carolyn DeCristofano, and publisher Pugalicious Press from older formats to a...
Read MoreTalking Inner & Outer Demons
Curious City had a haunting afternoon with writers Amalie Howard, Elizabeth Miles, and Sarah L. Thomson at Maine Festival of the Book! Readers had a little scare or at least a little banter with our panel… Facing Your Inner & Outer Demons: Teen Issues in Paranormal Fiction Young Adult authors discuss incorporating real life teen issues into their paranormal novels Mercy, Fury, and Bloodspell with moderator Kirsten Cappy of Curious City. Share...
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...
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