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A couple of weeks ago author/illustrator, Joyce Wan, tagged me to join in "The Next Big Thing", a blog tour about children's books that started in Australia and has spread around the world. (You can see Joyce's post here). Thanks, Joyce!!
I'll be answering questions about my two up-coming books. Here goes!!...
1. What is the working title of your next book?
Cupcakes Cousins by Kate Hannigan and Baby Love by Angela DiTerlizzi.
2. Where did the idea come from for the book?
The ideas came from Kate and Angela, authors extraordinaire!
3. What genre does your book fall under?
Cupcake Cousins is an illustrated middle grade book. Baby Love is a picture book.
4. What actors would you choose to play the part of your characters in a movie rendition?
The two main characters in Cupcake Cousins are Willow and Delia. For Willow I think I'd choose a 10 year old Megan Follows, from Anne of Green Gables fame. For Delia I think Amandla Stenberg, who played Rue in The Hunger Games, would be a good fit.
For
Baby Love I'd choose my cousin, Laura and her very cute baby, Harper!
5. Who is publishing your book?
Cupcake Cousins is being published by
Disney/Hyperion and
Baby Love will be published by
Beach Lane Books (an imprint of Simon and Schuster).
6. How long did it take you to illustrate the book?
Well, I'm still working on both books, but it looks like each book will take about nine or ten months.
7. What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?
Hm... I can't think of a book that I've read that reminds me of
Cupcake Cousins. Maybe Kate can field that one (you can see a link to her blog below).
Baby Love reminds me a little of
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes, by Mem Fox.
8. Who or what inspired you in illustrating this book?
For
Cupcake Cousins I was very inspired by Kate's writing. Her descriptions really brought the characters to life and I've loved exploring the world that Kate has created. The two main characters love to bake and so do I, so that helped, too.
For
Baby Love, Angela's text is really lovely and simple and left a lot of room for me to explore. I asked both Angela and my cousin, Laura, to send me pictures of their babies, which has been really helpful since I don't have a baby of my own. One of the most inspiring things has been to hang out with my friend Bethany and her darling baby and to see how they interact together.
9. What else about the book might pique the reader's interest?
Cupcake Cousins is such a warm, heart-felt, summertime story. And there are recipes!!
Baby Love will make a wonderful gift for new parents (or anyone who likes babies!) and is a very sweet story. It will be perfect to read to little ones at bedtime or anytime they need a little extra love.
And now it's my turn to do the tagging...
The fabulous
Kate Hannigan will be talking about
Cupcake Cousins. Hooray, Kate!
And my friend, critique partner, and amazing author/illustrator,
Tina Kugler, will be talking about her new picture book,
In Mary's Garden, which she is creating with her husband,
Carson Kugler.
Thank you again to Joyce Wan for inviting me to be a part of "The Next Big Thing". Please be sure to visit
Joyce's blog.
Thanks for reading and happy Tuesday!
This is Hazel and her best friend, Hare. They're heading off for a vacation to California's Muir woods. They're also going to visit the beach. Hare loves to go beach-combing and is especially fond of collecting interesting pieces of sea glass.
Also, here's
an interview with Mo Willems about writing for kids. Enjoy your weekend!
When I posted my "It takes courage..." illustration last month, a few peopled inquired about whether or not I would be adding the image to my Etsy shop. It's taken me awhile, but I finally have a new listing up for this illustrated E.E. Cummings quote! Hooray! You can see the listing
here.
I hope you're having a happy Monday!
I'm very excited to share that I will be illustrating my second picture book!
The story, which is by
Linda Ashman, is called "MORE!" and will be published by
Random House in fall of 2015. I
really love this manuscript and am over the moon to be a part of this project! Linda has written many wonderful books and you can see some of them
here. Hooray!!!
In other news, here are some blog posts that I think you might like...
An interview with illustrator, Trina Schart HymanA post on Mr. Schu's blog, "Watch Connect Read", about Marla Frazee, Chris Rashka, and David Ezra Stein And illustrator, Julia Denos presents the Fairy bell sisters. Happy reading! And happy spring!!
My studio is slowly coming together. The bulletin board and bookshelves are full and the unpacked boxes are hidden away for now. We've had over a foot of snow in the last few days and it's nice and cozy inside, which is where I'll be staying until I've finished the drawings I'm working on.
I hope that you're someplace warm and cozy, too, and that you're feeling inspired. :)
Phew! The move is over, although pretty much everything is still in boxes. But, with deadlines approaching things will have to stay in boxes a little while longer.
Here are a few girls I doodled to start off the day. I hope this week finds you well!
Yesterday I took a break from packing up my studio to do some doodling. This weekend we're moving into a new house. While I'm very excited to have a new studio that has several windows and isn't in the basement like my current workspace, I'm much less excited about the whole packing things into boxes and schlepping around furniture side of things. But, it will be over soon and I'm looking forward to a fresh start in a new home.
I hope that you will have a happy, springy, Easter-y weekend! I'll see you next week from my new house!
It's nearly March and I'm anxious for spring to arrive. So, here's a spring bunny to bring a little cheer.
Also, if you think that octopuses are as fascinating I as do, you might like
this article.And here's an
interview with Shaun Tan that you might like to read as well. Cheers!
I was doodling whilst watching the Oscars last night and had fancy hair-dos and pretty dresses on my mind. And poodles apparently.
In other news, this weekend we had the first proper snow storm of the season here in Fort Collins. Everything is sparkly white and lovely today. I hope that things are lovely where you are, too.
I hope your day is filled with great love and lots of chocolate! And Happy Birthday to my niece, Kate, who turns 6 today, and to my best friend, Kimi, who I've known since preschool. xoxo
Happy Holidays! I hope that you are surrounded by family and friends, and all things healing and cheerful. I'm going to take a break from the internet for a little while, so I'll see you sometime in January. And, in the meantime, I'm raising my mug of hot tea to you and wishing you love and peace and a new year full of good things. Cheers! :)
Usually I'm not big on New Year's resolutions, but this year I have several. I've made the usual ones like eat more veggies, floss more often, and keep my studio better organized. And I've also made several that have to do with hopes and dreams and goals and things like that.
One of my resolutions is to do a better job of showing you how much I appreciate that you take the time to visit my blog. It always makes me a little nervous to put up a new blog post. I'm sort of a quiet, private sort of gal, and sometimes posting a little snippet of my life makes me feel just a tiny bit vulnerable. So, when you take the time to peruse my blog and even leave a comment, I really really really appreciate it.
And so, to better show my appreciation I'm going to do two things...
The first is that I'm going to try to be better about responding to your comments. I'll respond to your questions and remarks in the same comment thread where you left them, so please check back.
And the second is that I'm hosting a GIVEAWAY!! Hooray! One winner will receive everything pictured above...
2 8x10" prints
3 5x7" prints
6 note cards (3 of which are valentines)
1 something secret (not pictured)
TO ENTER: Please leave a comment under this post (Maybe you'd like to mention one of your New Year's resolutions?). Or you can enter by sending me a tweet, @BrookeBHughes, with a link to this post...
http://brookeboynton.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-thank-you-giveaway.html
and the hashtag, #NameInTheHat. If you leave a comment AND send me a tweet, you'll be entered twice! Huzzah!!
The giveaway will be open until the end of the day (midnight, Mountain Standard Time) next Wednesday (the 16th).
Thank you again for visiting my blog and good luck!! :)
Hello, Friends! I hope that 2013 is off to a good start for you!
So far this year has been full of lots of drawing and painting and getting ready for the
SCBWI conference in New York, which I'm really looking forward to.
I'm planning a giveaway post for Wednesday so please check back if you'd like to throw your name in the hat.
Also, if you're looking for some blogs to visit, my critique group friends have been doing some lovely work...
Lisa Anchin,
Jessixa Bagley,
Jill Bergman, and
Tina Kugler.
Happy New Year!!
Thank you so much to everyone who entered the giveaway! I put all the entries in a hat and the first name I pulled out was... JOSHUA NASH! Hooray! And because there were far more entries than I anticipated, I decided to pull out a second name. And it was... Z-KIDS! Hip hip hooray!
So Joshua will receive a package with the items mentioned in my original giveaway post. And the Z-kids will receive a similar package (but with some different prints).
Thank you again for entering! Happy Monday!
Tuesday Greetings! I took a break from getting ready for my trip to New York to do some doodling. Now I'm off to finish my laundry, run some errands, and pack up my postcards and portfolio. If you're attending
the conference, please keep a look out for my name tag. I'd love to say hello!
Also, I'm very smitten with the work of
Tor Freeman. I think you'll like it too!
I'm back from the Big Apple! The
SCBWI Winter Conference in New York was wonderful and exhausting and inspiring.
My friend (and conference roommate / critique group partner),
Jessixa Bagley was a runner-up for the portfolio showcase, which is super exciting! Congratulations, Jessixa!!
Lori Nichols was the other runner-up and
Andrea Offermann, whom I had the pleasure of meeting, was the showcase winner. Way to go gals!!
Jessixa,
Lisa Anchin, and I had our photo taken with
Tomie DePaola, who was a hoot!
Mo Willems' keynote speech was really inspiring. I met
Julie Andrews! I caught up with old friends and made some new ones, like
Sharee Miller. I had a great chat over lunch with the extremely talented
Kelly Light. Kelly introduced me to the very warm and lovely
Heidi Stemple, who later introduced me to her mom,
Jane Yolen. (Jane Yolen!!!) I'm looking forward to reading their book, "
Bad Girls" which they both signed for me.
I visited the amazing New York Public Library and
the Met (one of my favorite New York places) and spent a few hours at
Books of Wonder where I picked up Oliver Jeffers' "
The Heart And The Bottle" and "
Shadow" by Suzy Lee. I had a great lunch with a good friend at a lovely spot in the West Village called
Tea and Sympathy (scones with clotted cream!). On the flight home I fell asleep before the plane even backed away from the gate.
Now that I'm back in Colorado I'm working on book projects, story ideas, and website updates. Tomorrow I'm heading to California for a quick Hughes family vacation. Things are feeling a bit whirlwindy these days... whirlwindy, but exciting. Did you go to the conference, too? How was it for you? What was your favorite part?
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Great interview, Brooke! I am very excited about your books deals, super cool!