Categories, Hobbits, & Other Adventures in WordPress
Are you a WordPress user? I am. (In fact, sometimes my enthusiasm borders on Gollum-my-precious-like affection.) I am going to attempt to describe an aspect of blogging on WordPress that I have so far failed to describe with clarity–Categories. I will attempt to do so using loose and sacrilegious literary references. Categories allow you to index your blog posts. In the past (before WordPress became our sparkly future), the only ways to navigate through a series of blog posts was to scroll through page after page or to click on the Archive that sorted our posts by date. This will...
Read MoreRide 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 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...
Read MoreIntern on Self-Taught Artist Bill Traylor
CURIOUS CITY, a children’s book consulting company that builds creative marketing projects and outreach for authors, illustrators, and publishers focused on engaging readers with story, is looking for an intern(s) for Winter/Spring 2013. That intern can be a college student from anywhere in the U.S. THE INTERNSHIP would be focused on the picture book It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw by Don Tate and illustrated by R. Gregory Christie. “…the story of this man’s life is an introduction to a noted American folk artist of the 20th century, and...
Read MoreSweet Intern Experience
Once again, Maine College of Art (MECA) proves to be a sweet dance partner. This semester Jessica Tomlinson, MECA’s Director of Artists at Work and I dug through my shelf of upcoming children’s book marketing projects and found one for a MECA Illustration student to jitterbug to. Author Jen Bryant and illustrator Melissa Sweet will soon release A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin, a picture book biography of a self-trained artist that overcame war and disability to recapture the joy he had as a boy drawing and painting. Illustrator and MECA...
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...
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