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Post-PiBo Day 1: Corey Rosen Schwartz Looks for What POPS (plus a prize!)
by Corey Rosen Schwartz So, you have your list of 30 or more ideas. Now what? First of all, DON’T STOP. Your mind is fertile right now. This is when most of my ideas come… the week after PiBoIdMo. The...
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Post-PiBo Day 2: Kristi Valiant Focuses on the Big Picture (plus a prize!)
by Kristi Valiant Isn’t it fun to hone and revise your hilarious dialogue in your manuscript until it’s just perfect? To give your character another tiny quirk that makes them that much more them? To...
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Post-PiBo Day 3: Stacy McAnulty Engineers Her Story (plus prizes!)
by Stacy McAnulty When I tell people that I have a mechanical engineering degree and that I’m also a picture book author, they look at me like I’m trying to mate two different species. Like I’m part...
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Post-PiBo Day 4: Ame Dyckman’s Idea Herding Method (plus a prize pack!)
by Ame Dyckman There they are! Your PiBoIdMo ideas! Staring at you with perky eyebrows and expectant smiles and wiggling like puppies. Now, whatddya DO with ’em?! Your 30 ideas all have potential for...
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Post-PiBo Day 5: Artie Bennett Brings Up the Rear
by Artie Bennett It’s only fitting that Tara would choose me, the author of THE BUTT BOOK, to bring up the rear, closing out the guest blogs of Post–Picture Book Idea Month—or Post-PiBoIdMo, to the...
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Post-PiBo Final Day: Tara Lazar Gets Emotional
***blows into hankie*** Yes, I’m emotional because the 5th annual PiBoIdMo has come to a close. It’s been an incredibly satisfying few months for me—from organizing guest bloggers, to reading their...
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PiBoIdMo 2013 Grand Prize Winners
Drum roll, please! (Did I ever mention I’m a huge Muppets fan?) It’s time to announce our PiBoIdMo 2013 GRAND PRIZE WINNERS! How were these winners selected? Every participant who signed the PiBoIdMo...
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Pre-PiBoIdMo Prize Winners!
I’ve already asked Animal for a drum roll twice on this blog, so it’s time to give someone else a chance. Take it away, Mr. Astaire! What poise! What grace! What shiny white spats! So here are the...
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Post-PiBoIdMo Prize Winners!
Who shall roll the drums this time? Sorry, Anna Kendrick canceled last minute and this is all I could get on short notice. So there’s more prizes to give away…all the Post-PiBo goodies! Again, winners...
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Final PiBoIdMo 2013 Prize Winners!
Hey look, Jerry won a prize in a box of cereal! Well, he’s going to be mighty jealous of you PiBoIdMo’ers—because your prizes sure beat a Honey Comb tattoo. (Your prizes are BIG, yeah-yeah-yeah....
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