Great news, BIRD has been selected as a finalist for The Brown Bookshelf’s 28 Days Later Contest. Hurray! Here is an excerpt from the letter sent to Zetta Elliott announcing the great news: 28 Days Later is our much-anticipated initiative that will celebrate vanguard Black children’s book authors and emerging and established African-American authors who … Read more
Wow! It’s almost January. Time for new resolutions, new plans, and new dreams. This year has been absolutely fantastic! Since BIRD was published in October, I’ve visited schools, libraries and bookstores introducing my work and hopefully inspiring young people to follow their own creative dreams. Recently I conducted a children’s printmaking workshop at the Brooklyn … Read more
I have just returned from a five day exploration of the city of New Orleans. Though I wasn’t able to draw as much as I had hoped, I did get in a few solid hours of drawing. I used my fabulous Powershot for supplemental pics. Here are a few images. St. Charles Street trolley Cafe … Read more
This Saturday, Brownstone Books hosted a launch party for BIRD. It was a great turn out of family and friends, new and old. We sold out of books within the first half hour of our signing but promised to have signed books available at Brownstone at a later date. Here are a few pics from … Read more
It’s two in the morning. I just finished the sketch dummy for my next book, WHITE WATER. To be published by Candlewick 2009. Yawn! YAY! While visiting Atlanta for my best friend’s wedding I was able to hop on over and get a few pics of Opelika, Alabama, where the story takes place. I never … Read more
I’m back from my whirlwind ALA visit. I arrived in Anaheim on Monday evening. Firstly, there was a great view of Disneyland from my hotel window. I caught a quick glimpse of the fireworks show on my way back from dinner. On Sunday morning I moseyed on over to the convention center and roamed the … Read more
This weekend I will be attending the 2008 American Library Association Annual Conference in Anaheim, California. I will be promoting my upcoming book, Bird, published by Lee and Low Books October 2008. See you in Cali!