Sams) and The Snowman (by Raymond Briggs). It’s the worst stage.Īnyway, this latest story idea is related to winter, so I decided to see what was out there in the realm of ‘winter-based picture books.’ There are the obvious ones, of course: The Mitten (by Jan Brett), The Snowy Day (by Ezra Jack Keats), Stranger in the Woods (by Carl R. Until finally…there’s nothing left to do.Įxcept pray someone publishes it. Make a dummy (a mock-up of the layout of the book). Then I print it out, draw big, angry lines through the text and write it in new words. I look up the idea to see who else has written something similar to it (to make sure I’m not just rehashing something that’s already been…hashed).
I think it’s the most brilliant thing I’ve ever thought of and I write down a rough ( very rough) draft.Usually, when I get an idea for a new book, three things happen: I’m in the final stages of editing my latest picture book and, frankly, it’s good. So I’ve been chasing that high ever since. I’ve been paid to be a children’s entertainment writer for 19 years, but I hadn’t been *officially published* (read: not self-published) until last year. But it wasn’t the first picture book I’d ever written. As most of you know, I not only love to review books, but to write them too! In fact, my first book was published last year.
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