by Denise Vega | March 9, 2017 | Writing Inspiration
If you subscribe to my e-newsletter, you received a link to an article on Tuesday. The article covered a Children’s Book Council panel talking about trends in children’s books, but also what some booksellers and librarians are hearing in terms of what...
by Denise Vega | March 2, 2017 | Writing Inspiration
So back in 2015 I had an idea for a picture book that I thought was brilliant. Let’s call it PB1. I worked on various revisions, got feedback, revised some more, sent it to my agent, got more feedback and then…we agreed it was ready to submit. We got a lot...
by Denise Vega | February 23, 2017 | Writing Inspiration
I had every intention of writing a post last Thursday. After all, we returned late Tuesday night and I had Wednesday to do it. Ha. Between sleep deprivation, the time change, and a mountain of other things, I completely forgot—in spite of the reminder that pops...
by Denise Vega | February 9, 2017 | Writing Inspiration
This post will be short and sweet because we got on a catamaran on Tuesday and are sailing around the British Virgin Islands! It’s possible I would have wifi on the boat, but I didn’t want to count on that so I wrote this the night before–on Monday,...
by Denise Vega | February 2, 2017 | Writing Inspiration
So yes. I had to adjust my expectations during my “big week” of writing/revising the NaNoWriMo novel. This was one of the few times I had 8+ hours a day to work on a book and I envisioned myself cranking through the hard copy, making notes to myself and...
