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Houston SCBWI Conference

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Saturday, April 9th is the Houston SCBWI Conference. Here’s the lineup of great speakers in attendance.

Ruth McNally Barshaw
Author-Illustrator of the Ellie McDoodle Series

Kate Fletcher, Editor Candlewick

Leah Hultenschmidt, Sourcebook Inc.

Laurent Linn, Art Director, Simon and Schuster

Sara Megibow, Associate Literary Agent Nelson Literary Agency, LLC

Brenda Murray, Senior Editor, Scholastic

Abby Ranger, Editor, Disney Hyperion .

Anna Webman, Agent, Curtis Brown

This week I’ll be adding  some of the new work to my portfolio that I’ve worked on this year. I’ve finished my dummy book and will be taking it with me as well.  It will be a lot of fun to meet up with friends that I usually only get to talk to online! See you there!



Ruby Gets Color

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I thought it might be interesting to show how Ruby went from sketch to finished illustration. This is will be one of the color examples in my book dummy. I’ve got quite a few more pages to go, so…. back to work!

And of Course… Eye of Newt

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A light bulb moment at 5:00 in the morning… do I get up and draw it right now, or go back to sleep.Well… I didn’t get up, and I didn’t go back to sleep either!
There was no sleeping until Ruby got the new direction she was asking for.
Don’t you hate it… and love it when this happens!!!!

Ruby Rue and dummy book by Roberta Baird.