Vital Statistics Quality Assurance Supervisor /YA Author Freshman Focus Just Be Three Words That Describe Her Ambitious.  Procrastinator.  Daydreamer. Her Writing Style I still have not shed my teacher persona so that comes out in my writing.  I want to still be able to teach through my writing yet not have it feel like 300 [ Read the full article… ]

Vital Statistics Transportation Marketer by day/YA Author by night/Mommy and wife in between Author of The Del Rio Bay Series (Dafina, 2007-2009) Three Words That Best Describe You: Pop.Culture.Fanatic. Do not challenge me in a game of trivia. I warn you, my brain is a cauldron of mindless information. Her writing style My stories tend [ Read the full article… ]

Vital Statistics Illustrator and Author of Children’s Books Graphics Reporter and Illustrator for the Austin American-Statesman Recent books illustrated by Don Ron’s Big Mission, written by Corinne Naden and Rose Blue (Dutton, 2009) I am My Grandpa’s Enkelin, by Walter Wanergin, Jr. (Paraclete Press, 2007) The Hidden Feast, by Martha Hamilton and Mitch Weiss (August [ Read the full article… ]

Vital Statistics Stay-at-Home Mommy and Freelance Writer/Children’s Book Author NEATE: Eddie’s Ordeal (Just Us Books, 2004) Million Men and Me (Just Us Books, 2007) Three Words That Describe Her Hopeful. Appreciative. Evolving. Her Writing Style When I’m writing picture books, I strive for them to be lyrical and meaningful. When I’m writing middle-grade stories, I want them to [ Read the full article… ]

Hard as it is to believe, this is the last week of 28 Days Later. That loud crashing you hear are the Brown Bookshelf members slumping against their keyboards from exhaustion. But it’s a good exhaustion! (I hope, says the one member who’s been done her profiles since the 13th). Anyway, just a reminder that [ Read the full article… ]

We’re mid-way through our 2009 campaign and hope you’ve enjoyed this year’s interviews, so far. The last half of the month will be just as informative and fun. Normally, we here at The Brown Bookshelf tend to take a “vacation” of sorts once 28 Days Later ends. As much as I wish it were a [ Read the full article… ]

Shadra Strickland is the illustrator behind the book BIRD, written by Zetta Elliott. Congrats! (announcement here) (interview here).

I first met Vanesse J. Lloyd-Sgambati at BookExpo America. She congratulated me on the debut of One Million Men and Me and said she’d be in touch about having me sign at her book fair, The African American Children’s Book Fair in Philadelphia. I was thrilled, but had no idea about the event’s important history and what it would [ Read the full article… ]