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Feliz Día del Libro • Feliz Sant Jordi • Happy World Book Day. • This is a B&W Illustration from POLLY DIAMOND AND THE MAGIC BOOK (written by #AliceKuipers + illustrated by #dianatoledano) that I colored just for fun. • What are you doing for fun today? ••• #kidlitart #childrensillustrator #kidlitartist #diadellibro #worldbookday2020 #santjordi2020 #diadellibro2020 #internationalbookday #chapterbooks #chroniclebooks https://www.instagram.com/p/B_VQsD4HENm/?igshid=1th1rzfdtzybm
Q&A with Author Alice Kuipers Part 1
1. What does your writing space look like? Are you an office person, or a laptop and anywhere kind of person? - I work anywhere. I have a laptop with headphones, which are a crucial tool for me. When I put music on, I can switch off the noise and the world and get writing. I have four small children so being able to tune out the noise they make is very useful. But I do have an office space too. It's in the basement at our house, which is nicer than it sounds, and I love to settle down there with our family dog, Bamboo, put on headphones and write. Often, however, the kids come in and want to start drawing or chatting with me, so I tend to grab my laptop and go to cafes to work. 2. What is your writing process like? Outlines and rough drafts for days? Or let it flow from chapter to chapter and worry about story structure and editing later? - I have learned over the years that I write better with some structure. I used to just let it flow, but now I have a mixture of rough outlining and crazy writing binges where I write a thousand words in an hour. I have to do a lot of editing later either way, it seems. Tons and tons of rethinking and rewriting. I'm very lucky to work with some great editors. I've attached a photo of one set of edits for your readers to peak at -- often an editorial letter will have hundreds of these comments! All the sections you read in these edits have been cut from the final book. It's a lot of work to rewrite a book but it always gets me closer to the story I'm trying to tell. ** photo will be part of part two** 3. Do you enjoy reading reviews and thoughts from bloggers? If so, do you feel their thoughts change your ideas for your next work? - I love getting feedback from readers. Reviewers make me nervous because often they are spot on with their comments, but it's too late to change the book. I wouldn't say that comments from readers or reviewers change my ideas for stories, but they certainly help me to become the writer I want to be. And they do this by being honest and open about what works and what doesn't. Some things I can't change -- my tendency to be interested in emotional relationships can feel sentimental to some readers. But I try to learn as a writer and make each book stronger than the one before, and astute reviews are a great place for me to learn.
Happy Galentine’s Day! ¡Os quiero amigas! • Here are two friends walking hand in hand. Isn’t that the greatest feeling? Who do you like to hold hands with? • Illustration for the second book on the POLLY DIAMOND series. It will be out this spring with @chroniclebooks! •••• #galentinesday #galentines #kidlitart #womenwhodraw #valentinesday2019 #childrensbookillustration #dianatoledano #chroniclebooks #alicekuipers https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt1dwwEnTvD/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=x3roq111vjou
Polly sure knows to have fun! I want her energy... I’m feeling exhausted these days. • Illustration from the book POLLY DIAMOND AND THE MAGIC BOOK. Find it in your neighborhood bookstore. ••• #childrensliterature #earlyreader #kidlitart #dianatoledano #alicekuipers #chroniclebooks #childrensbookillustration #blackgirlmagic #diversebooks
Names NOT to call your new baby brother. - From “Polly Diamond and the Magic Book”. Although I happen to think that Galaxy would be a pretty cool name. •••• @alicekuiperswritingprompts #childrensliterature #childrensbookillustration #kidlit #kidlitart #dianatoledano #diversebooks #womenwhodraw #chapterbooks #alicekuipers
Q & A with Author Alice Kuipers Part 2 4. What do you find your favourite thing is about both genres you write in? - I love writing for kids and for teenagers because both age groups give frank responses to books. If a young child is bored by a book, they don't pretend to love it. A teenager tells you with great enthusiasm if they love your books and they tell you with clear frustration if they hate the work. But, more than that, both age groups are really interesting to me as a writer because of the ideas for stories that come to me. I love exploring these ages when things happen to characters for the first time in their lives. These moments of new experiences- whether that's writing a book for the first time, like Violet does in my Violet and Victor picture books, or having to make a terrible choice, like Lark does in the newest YA novel, these first time moments make for fascinating stories and characters. 5. How do you feel being published has changed your creative thinking process? - I work harder now I'm a published author because I know people are eventually going to read the words I write. When someone takes time out of their life to read one of my books, they never get that time back. So I have to earn it, I feel. I edit hundreds of times. And through the publishing process, I get to work with great editors, book designers, and then, once the book is out there, I get to meet all sorts of great readers. 6. If you were ever in an impossible situation similar to Larks, what would you hope your choice would be? - I suspect, like Lark, I would be paralyzed by the choice. Sometimes I find it hard to even pick out items in the grocery store. The options presented to Lark in Me and Me are so difficult that she doesn't know what to do - whose life should she try and save? That's the sort of question that makes a character really have to figure out who they are. If it were me, after I'd dithered about what to do, I'd probably make an impulsive choice. A lot of my decisions have been made impulsively. I'm not the sort of person to weigh out pros and cons, more the sort of person who just dives in and then wonders what they've done!
Spoiler Free Review of Me (and) Me By Alice Kuipers
This book was my introduction to the body of work by Alice Kuipers and I wasn’t disappointed. I went into this story with the complete wrong idea of how it would play out. I was so sure that the book would be basically divided in two, where she picks Annabelle and where she picks Alec. I couldn’t have been more wrong, Alice weaves you into this story that becomes so much more complex then the tough choice it is at the beginning.
We meet Lark on her seventeenth birthday, on a date with her crush Alec. Lark is the high school girl that I wanted to be, singer, songwriter, loyal group of friends, her band on the cusp of something big and then a boy of course. Then … the choice … As weird as this may sound, Lark is sort of an onion type of character … her layers are revealed with every chapter, every choice, every moment. With her mother having passed away years before, Lark is no stranger to regrets, because of this I think she feels each decision and it’s repercussions to a stronger degree. Which ends up that on both sides of the choice, Lark is paralyzed wondering who to save and what the outcome will be. As she struggles with her choices, the one who is in the hospital and their families, strange occurrences start to happen more and more frequently leaving us all wondering how the story will end.
They are moments in this book that leave you crossing your fingers and holding your breath hoping it all turns out okay.
I’m so happy with my introduction to Alice and her work, will definitely be picking up another one. I hope you consider giving Me (and) Me a read in the future, it’s worth your time.
I give this book 4⭐️
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Me (and) Me By Alice Kuipers One Choice can change everything. Tragedy strikes on Lark's seventeenth Birthday -- Alex, her date, and Annabelle, her former babysitting charge, are drowning. She can save only one of them. At this moment, everything changes for Lark. Strange messages start appearing on her phone, her new boyfriend has mysterious secrets, and tensions are rising at home. Her band is taking off, they're preparing for an upcoming gig, and she has a new passion for free climbing. Nonetheless, Lark feels like she's drowning. She has to face up to the choices she's made and what they mean to her. Unless it's already too late ... @hccfrenzy
