Notes from the Slush Pile - Candy Gourlay's Blog on Trying to Get Published in Children's Books

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Shoo Rayner's Drawing School

Okay, I'm trying to be a good author and ignore all distractions.

However Shoo Rayner is evil and has started a drawing school over on his website. I can't resist watching illustrators draw so now Shoo's new page has seriously set back my plans for world domination.

Here's Shoo teaching us how to draw his archetypal character, the Ginger Ninja.

Labels: authors marketing themselves online, Illustrators, Online Marketing, who's afraid of the worldwide web

3 Comments:

Absolute Vanilla (and Atyllah) said...: Like I needed another distraction!
Brilliant stuff!; 10:02 AM
Benjamin Scott said...: I love the homemade feel of the video - the lights falling over adds to the realistic and friendly nature of it. Inspiring. Good find Candy!; 4:53 PM
Candy Gourlay said...: i suppose we writers could do the same thing. set up a camera and film ourselves working. but then we'd kill all our readers with boredom. we need them alive to buy our books.; 5:12 PM

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By Candy Gourlay

I've Got A Shop! I've Got A Shop!

This shop helps me at least pretend that the blog has some commercial value thus improving marital relations and preserving the myth that sitting in front of a computer for hours at a time can legitimately be termed as 'work'.

The designs are my original work apart from the stuff I ripped off other people.

www.candygourlay.spreadshirt.net

Me Talk Good — Catch me if you can!

Nov 23 British SCBWI's Writer's and Illustrator's Day, Winchester, UK

April 20 Brighton Children's Book Festival, Brighton, UK

March 29-30 SCBWI Before-Bologna Conference, Bologna, italy

March 8 Scattered Authors Society, Coventry, UK

Freebie Alert! Download these web survival tools that I helpfully compiled for my 2007 talk Who’s Afraid of the World Wide Web – on how authors can survive the New Realities of the Internet.

NEWS NEWS NEWS NEEEEWS!

The excellent Anita Loughrey interviewed me in anticipation of my talk in Bologna and here it is on the Cynsations blog.
Undiscovered Voices, the ground-breaking anthology published by British SCBWI in association with Working Partners is out! My novel Ugly City won a place in the anthology at last year's competition. Buy the anthology.

My cartoon is featured on the cover of Simon Morse's The Pregnant Guy: Journey to the Center of the Birth. Simon's book answers previously neglected issues that affect expectant fathers such as "Am I getting fat?". All pregnant fathers must buy this book - it will be a nice thing to read while sleeping on the couch once the baby is born.