I received an invite the other day to give an interview in WhoHub. It's a new site with a pretty groovy idea - interviews with creatives. I'm not sure how they found me, or what their criteria of who they invite is - but I enjoyed answering the questions. They were thoughtful and made me think.      You can read my interview here .      I hope they add more children's book creators!

     In my recent talk about "Self-Promotion for Illustrators (on the Cheap)" I mentioned the need to be able to create one's own promotional materials. That means, even artists who work in traditional...from anybody who does. Also, if you know of other options online - please add it in my comments section. Let's make this a resource for illustrators who need to promote themselves - on the cheap

For those who are curious and have been asking, letting me know, etc., the answer is no, I don't intend to participate in NaNoWriMo , this year or any other year. I'm not really a joiner. I don't do writer's... Speaking of, I have writing to do. *goes to write* P.S. Neil Gaiman has a wonderful pep talk over there . I might be a loner-type, but I do like knowing other authors do the same thing I do

I've been kind of down for the past couple of days... Jared has been gone for about a week .. and we were fighting .. I said something along the lines of .. your parents don't like anything I do, they...date today.. him and AL : drank juice & ate snacks watched Wubbzy tortured Doe attempted to shared toys played trucks I'm so glad Maddox has a friend .. hes still a brat.. God I need to clean.....

Just Breathe The Midnight air will do you well Believe I miss your taste, I miss your smell The past mistakes that brought you here I'll break the fall for you my dear I'll ask the nurse for bandages...natural safe cleaning products.... SAFE for those ducks in the land field.. the products are sort of costly. .. ( I just spent $60) .. but so worth it ... I have so much shit to do .. sorry LJ

Yes it is the old "Mad Hatter" again setting in again. I am sort of going crazy in the writing of a play. I want to go forward with it, but am getting those old mental headaches. Not quite writer's block but something close. I want to go forward, but where? Sometimes reading is the only way out of it. Hopefully some traveling will help as well....

...get to a plateau, but it's been so long now. I really want to continue losing weight and soon. I'll see what happens on Sunday. By then, hopefully, something will have changed. I still believe in my method, but I still need to do more. Change something so I'll start losing weight again. First of all I need to understand why it's stopped working, if that's what's happened. I still hope it's just a...

     This is a fascinating peek into the process of a master in our industry - I highly recommend you check it out!

Is it sad that I got a total kick out of the "handy dandy sponge holder" on the top of [ Error: Irreparable invalid markup (' ') in entry. Owner must fix manually. Raw contents below.] Is it sad that I got a total kick out of the "handy dandy sponge holder" on the top of method's Le Scrub ? I need to start ordering straight from the method website, it's cheaper there.

     I mentioned earlier that my hubbie is a long distance motorcyclist and one of his favorite websites is Adventure Rider where people post amazing photos of their motorcycle adventures around the world. Recently they've become wise as well in this thread on m-m-m-motovation . I think this is just as helpful for writers and illustrators: