This year, I’m signing up for the anti-resolution revolution. It is so tempting to start listing all the things one wants to accomplish at the start of a New Year, but in my experience, the process (and thus the result) is flawed. I believe the reason resolutions often don’t work is because they start from [...]
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2012 Anti-Resolution Revolution
Posted in 12 x 12 in 2012, Authors, Birthdays, Children's Books, Family, Goals, Guest Blogging, Health/Fitness, Holidays, Italy, PiBoIdMo, Picture Books, Poetry, Publishing, Queries, SCBWI, Travel, Works in Progress, Writing, tagged 40th Birthday, Bolder Boulder, Bucket List, Critique Groups, Goals, Holidays, Italy, Julie Hedlund, Marketing, MeeGenius Author Challenge, New Year's, New Year's Eve, PiBoIdMo, Promotion, Resolutions, Rocky Mountain Chapter SCBWI, Writer on December 30, 2011 | 54 Comments »
‘Twas the Night Before Christmas: Holiday Contest
Posted in Authors, Creativity, Holidays, Poetry, Rhyming, Writing, tagged 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, Blogfest, Christmas, Holiday Contest, Holidays, Julie Hedlund, Poetry, Rhyming, Susanna Leonard Hill, Winter, Writer, Writing on December 20, 2011 | 54 Comments »
Here is my contribution to author Susanna Hill’s Holiday Contest. The rules were simple. Write our own version of Clement C. Moore’s classic, ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas. Go here to read all the other entries. They are great! Thanks to Susanna for hosting another fun challenge! ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas, and all [...]
The Story Behind The Story: My MeeGenius Entry
Posted in Children's Books, Digital Publishing, ebooks, Picture Books, Poetry, Publishing, Queries, Rhyming, Works in Progress, Writing, tagged e-books, e-publishing, Julie Hedlund, MeeGenius Author Challenge, Picture Books, Poetry, Publishing, Rhyming, Works in Progress, Writer, Writing on December 5, 2011 | 43 Comments »
Many of you know by now that I recently submitted one of my stories to a contest with MeeGenius – an e-publisher. For the past week, I’ve been emailing contacts and posting it on Twitter and Facebook – getting my first real taste of promoting a book. Hands off to published authors – it’s very [...]
Happy Thanksgiving!
Posted in Autumn, Family, Friendship, Poetry, Thanksgiving, tagged Family, Friendship, Gratitude, Holidays, Julie Hedlund, Poetry, Thanksgiving, Writer on November 24, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Giving Thanks For the hay and the corn and the wheat that is reaped, For the labor well done, and the barns that are heaped, For the sun and the dew and the sweet honeycomb, For the rose and the song and the harvest brought home – Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving! For the trade and the [...]
300th Post – My Bucket List
Posted in Authors, Charity, Children's Books, College Football, Cooking, Creativity, Dogs, ebooks, Entertaining, Family, Friendship, Garden, Goals, Gratitude Sunday, Holidays, Parenting, Picture Books, Poetry, Publishing, Self Publishing, Skiing, Social Media, Spirituality, Travel, Travel Writing, Volunteer/Community, Writing, tagged Adventure, Authors, Books, Bucket List, charity, Children's Books, College Football, Community, Cooking, Family, Friendship, gardening, Gratitude, Gratitude Sunday, Hiking, Julie Hedlund, Parenting, Personal Essays, Publishing, Self Publishing, Skiing, Spirituality, Things to Do Before You Die, Travel, Travel Writing, Volunteering, Wordless Picture Books, Writer, Writing on November 15, 2011 | 48 Comments »
ETA: As soon as I published this post, I immediately thought of more things I want to do and places I want to see. Rather than keeping track of them elsewhere, I will add them to the lists here. I will also cross them off when I’ve completed them (except for the last list, because [...]
A Thousand Thanks
Posted in Authors, Children's Books, Friendship, Italy, Picture Books, Poetry, SCBWI, Travel, Travel Writing, Writer's Platform-Building Campaign, Writing, tagged Blogging, Friendship, Gratitude, Italy, SCBWI, Social Media, Travel Writing, WriteOnCon, Writer's Platform-Building Campaign, Writing on October 7, 2011 | 10 Comments »
A couple of weeks ago, I asked for help choosing between two blog posts I’d written in order to revise one of them for submission to a travel-writing anthology. I was once again amazed at the generosity of this writing community when I got nearly 20 responses. You all helped me so much, not just [...]
How I Got My Agent: Linda Ashman with Agent Jennifer Mattson
Posted in Agents, Authors, Children's Books, Giveaway, How I Got My Agent, Picture Books, Poetry, Publishing, Queries, Rhyming, Writing, tagged Andrea Brown Literary Agency, Children's Books, How I Got My Agent, Jennifer Mattson, Linda Ashman, Literary Agents, Picture Books, Poetry, Publishing, Queries, Rhyming on October 4, 2011 | 22 Comments »
I am so excited to present my first-ever author/agent duo for the How I Got My Agent Series. Thanks to Jennifer Mattson for agreeing to go under the microscope participate alongside Linda. I decided on a She Said/She Said format, with their pictures as the indicator for their responses. Of course I couldn’t resist sprinkling [...]
Inspired by Aspen
Posted in Poetry, Writing, tagged Poetry, Writing on October 1, 2011 | 7 Comments »
I wrote this poem in my head as I drove through the mountains today… Aspen ablaze Quaking with rage. Soon it will be spent. Leaves petal down Soft, to the ground. Down the river they went. The tree stands bare, Arms in the air, Pleading with the sky. Buried with snow, Roots come aglow. [...]
Adam Rex Rocks the House
Posted in Authors, Children's Books, Picture Books, Poetry, Publishing, Rhyming, Works in Progress, Writing, tagged Adam Rex, Authors, Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich, Picture Books, Publishing, Rocky Mountain Chapter SCBWI, SCBWI, Works in Progress, Writing on September 23, 2011 | 12 Comments »
Author/illustrator extraordinaire Adam Rex was the keynote speaker at last weekend’s Rocky Mountain SCBWI conference in Denver, and I would be willing to bet folks in Boulder could hear us laughing. In fact, I hardly took any notes both because I was laughing so hard and because I didn’t want to miss anything he said [...]
Random Acts of Publicity: CO Picture Book Writers
Posted in Authors, Autumn, Children's Books, Dogs, Giveaway, Picture Books, Poetry, Rhyming, SCBWI, Works in Progress, Writing, tagged Authors, Big Sur in the Rockies, Children's Books, Jean Reidy, Linda Arms White, Linda Ashman, Picture Books, Random Acts of Publicity, Rhyming, Skype an Author, Stella Unleashed, Too Many Pumpkins, Too Pickley on September 7, 2011 | 13 Comments »
This is the third annual Random Acts of Publicity week, founded by Darcy Pattison as a way to promote favorite books or favorite authors. I’m focusing on three Colorado picture book writers, all of whom have reached out a hand to help me in my own budding career (and their books are great!). In fact, [...]
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