This post is Part II on picture book advice from the 17th Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas.  This time, … Continue reading Picture Book Advice From the 17th Texas Book Festival, Part II – Language Serves the Story

Cool dry air descended on the Austin capitol for the 17th Texas Book Festival but the authors and illustrators shone … Continue reading Picture Book Advice From the 17th Texas Book Festival, Part 1 — How Children See the World

Originally posted FEBRUARY 2ND, 2010 on joeyverse.com I’ll leave the debate about how good/bad/faithful the movie was to the critics … Continue reading Magic vs. Science: Meta in Sherlock Holmes

Beaulah Pedregosa Taguiwalo (also known as Beaulah The Magnificent) treated Hen&ink to a clucking good chicken chuckle when she sent … Continue reading Chick Hen speaks kinaráy-a!

Today henandinkblots welcomes guest blogger Mercy Pilkington, a young adult author and a staff writer for GoodEReader covering ebooks and … Continue reading A Time of Change for Authors and Readers (guest blog)

New Year’s day. My life is in tatters and what remains is grey and full of rain. I’m looking for … Continue reading Of Bards and Black Hens: Ringing in the New Year

We’ve all heard that when you try to analyze humor, it dies in the process.  But we writers and storytellers … Continue reading HUMOR’S FUEL AND DESTINATION

I wake up to a rare New Orleans day without heat or humidity. The bougainvillea blooms bright orange in my … Continue reading Meditative Moments