Exploring and understanding audience, encouraging communication, announcing excerpts and celebrating book releases. Just basically talking about websites... and the occasional cupcake.
NEW BOOKS:
MAYA BANKS released the first book in her highly anticipated KGI series: The Darkest Hour, earlier this month. AUTHOR WEBSITE BONUS: You want to know anything about any of Maya’s books? The FAQs on her site are robust. And she’s always adding to them.
DIANE GASTON released Chivalrous Captain, Rebel Mistress, the [...]
I love this on many levels. As a designer I am humbled. As someone who respects the spoken and written word and the power of a good, well-formed sentence, I applaud this. As a parent I am relieved that there are people like Taylor Mali who choose to become teachers. He is my new hero. [...]
For the writer: It does everything a business card does, but better.
1) When you, the author, meet someone at random — whether at a booksigning, on a plane, in a store, or socially: “Oh, what do you write?” You want to be able to offer a leave-behind — something to reinforce to that person that [...]
We’re loving Michael Spradlin’s guest blog at Imagination Soup about “The Kid Who Doesn’t Like to Read (TKWDLTR) Syndrome” and his proposed comic book cure. Comics as exciting, vocabulary-building reading that will keep kids engaged—why not? As Michael says, in the face of the literacy crisis among kids, “Any reading is good reading.” We concur! [...]
