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So You’re a Writer…

I’m a writer / illustrator. These days I’m mostly an illustrator. But a couple of decades back, I was mostly an author, and at one point had the happy experience of putting 13 novels into print with HarperCollins and Avon Press, along with a host of non-fiction books with smaller presses. During my time as […]

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Authors: Study This and Improve Your Writing Style

I think the best English writing of the last 150 years is easily Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine. I wish I’d found and studied this book about 30 years ago when I was starting my writing/illustration career. Bradbury crafts sentences in a way that makes each a little gem; paragraphs absolutely glitter and shine with refracted […]

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