Posts Tagged ‘biographies’

When a Fault Maybe Isn’t

Posted on: January 24th, 2019 by Jennifer Bryon Owen

“Jennifer reads too many library books” wasn’t the only comment my elementary school teachers regularly wrote on my report cards. The other was “Jennifer talks too much.” I absorbed these comments as failures. But, through the intervening years when these comments resurfaced, I gradually decided what they wrote was not what they meant. One can… Read more

Bothered by Idea Fairies?

Posted on: January 12th, 2018 by Jennifer Bryon Owen

  Through the years, my career has allowed me to work with numerous authors and illustrators. I’ve conducted publicity tours for them, interviewed them, written articles about them. I’ve talked one-on-one with them and have listened as they talked with audiences and individual fans. Invariably someone asks: “Where do you get your ideas?” The question… Read more