Please give a big welcome to one of my favorite kidlit people and dear friend, Paul Vinelli!
Some Highlights:
Bereavement books and crossing genres.
Collaborating with an artist to bring your book to life.
Physically staging the scenes of your book.
Taking a book to an art show.
Finding creative purpose.
Creating the story through staging and writing the text after the images.
What animal would you choose to be you in an anthropomorphic world?
Taking theater production as inspiration for telling stories.
The trust process between an illustrator and picture book author.
The benefits of mentorship and the relationships
How much Paul and I love our writing community and some of those people who’ve had the biggest influence on us♥️♥️♥️:
Susan Wroble (Co-RA of Rocky Mountain SCBWI)
Stan Yan (Co-RA of Rocky Mountain SCBWI
Laura Perdew (Connect Leader for Boulder, CO)
Julie Rowan-Zoch (Connect Leader for Northern CO)
Beth Anderson (her blog is SO HELPFUL)
Kaz Windness (author-illustrator and AMAZING educator)
Laurent Linn (art director and author)
Lynn Becker (author)
Debbie Ridpath Ohi (the kidlit bluesky fairy godparent also author-illustrator)
Christiana Doucette (author)
Claire Noland (author)
Pattie Toht (author)
Karen Grencik (literary agent)
Harold Underdown (author, illustrator, publisher, educator)
Eileen Robinson (editor, educator)
Pamela Courtney (author, educator)
Valerie Bolling (author)
Links Mentioned🔗:
The Sartorial Librarians Podcast on Apple and Spotify
Paul on Instagram and Bluesky
SCBWI – Rocky Mountain – Central California
Wolverine Farms in Fort Collins, CO
Mary Krienke at Sterling Lord Literastic
Check out the next episode of Why We Write podcast with Roxanne Chester. And don’t forget about this gem with author Beth Anderson!
