tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84518245161298474432024-03-05T15:17:53.010-08:00Popularity Papers: THE BLOGMore Stuff About Lydia and Julie's Quest for Popularity! (exciting stuff that you want to look at right now)Amy Ignatowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103347284079664106noreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8451824516129847443.post-87415094314186799562013-02-28T18:20:00.002-08:002013-02-28T18:20:54.385-08:00How to Get Published!Okay, this ones for all the aspiring writers out there...
This past weekend I gave a talk at the Moore College of Art Alumnae Reunion. Moore is my alma mater and it was an honor and a pleasure to be able to share my experiences and wisdom with my fellow alumnae, and I think it went pretty well although to be honest I don't remember much of what I said.
What I think I meant to say:
Hello, youAmy Ignatowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103347284079664106noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8451824516129847443.post-72283448352412651692013-02-14T05:42:00.001-08:002013-02-14T05:42:10.159-08:00Hey Everybody, Here's What I Think About Valentine's Day
Look, hearts and stars and cupcakes! Also a horse with a horn on it's head.
There are many many many many many many many reasons not to like Valentine's Day:
1. If you're in a relationship, you feel pressure to do something special.
2. If you're not in a relationship, you feel pressure to be in a relationship.
3. Some people feel the need to show off things they received from their Amy Ignatowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103347284079664106noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8451824516129847443.post-85193953826860967082013-02-12T10:18:00.000-08:002013-02-12T10:18:05.778-08:00This is AMAZING.I'm often asked, "Why did you want to become an author?" And the answers are pretty simple:
1. I love writing stories.
2. I love drawing.
3. Having a job doing what I love has always been my goal.
But there's a lot more to being an author than just writing and drawing stories. I go to schools and libraries and bookstores and conferences and I get to meet readers and teachers and other authors Amy Ignatowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103347284079664106noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8451824516129847443.post-38517136094915582052013-02-07T16:52:00.000-08:002013-02-07T16:52:10.783-08:00I'M BACK!!!
First things first...
I AM SO SORRY THAT I'VE BEEN THE WORSTEST MOSTEST NEGLECTFULLEST BLOGGER EVER!!! But I have excuses! Beautiful, glorious excuses!
Excuse #1: I was workingworkingworkingworking
I realize that to the outside world, it kind of looks like I just sit around in my pajamas all day watching old episodes of Star Trek*. This is not entirely untrue. But I'm also writing and drawingAmy Ignatowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103347284079664106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8451824516129847443.post-12572761564041289482012-10-21T06:45:00.000-07:002012-10-21T06:45:02.165-07:00Tweens Read 2012!
Howdee, Houston!
After bidding a fond farewell to my brother and his family (and stealing all their grapes) we left Dallas and hit the road for Houston.
Best photo I could get from the speeding Huh Huh Ruh of a gigantor roadside sculpture of Sam Houston.
This was my first time at the Tweens Read Festival, and something I learned very quickly was that the amazing people Amy Ignatowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103347284079664106noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8451824516129847443.post-65249311397081901672012-10-18T19:09:00.003-07:002012-10-19T05:30:13.390-07:00Yeehaw!
Mark and I are excited to be in Dallas! Anya has doubts.
I am writing this from my brother's house in a suburb of Dallas. That's Dallas, Texas, mind you, not Dallas, Pennsylvania, which apparently is a place that exists.
Look, they have an official tee shirt and everything.
Yesterday we got up at the absurd hour of You Really Don't Want To Know O' Clock and made our Amy Ignatowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103347284079664106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8451824516129847443.post-86365289736300497192012-10-02T19:00:00.000-07:002012-10-02T19:02:33.487-07:00What Makes You Beautiful
These guys have a really impressive amount of hair.
Okay guys, I'm about to go on a RANT. This happens every now and then, and tonight as I was ranting my husband suggested that I put it on the blog because it's a rant that my readers might be interested in.
Earlier today an extremely popular song came on the radio. I'd heard it a few times before, but this was the first time I really Amy Ignatowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103347284079664106noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8451824516129847443.post-10474204737481001412012-09-26T16:40:00.000-07:002012-09-26T16:40:10.703-07:00NEW PAPERBACK COVERS!!!
WHUT??? New paperback covers?
Yes, surprised cat! New paperback covers! We thought it would be fun to do something that would distinguish the paperbacks from the hardcovers, especially since the paperback version of Words of (Questionable) Wisdom will be coming out soon. What do you think?
Oooooooooh.
Aaaaaaaahhh!
Ohhhhhhh!!!
Also, just now I've learned Amy Ignatowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103347284079664106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8451824516129847443.post-24965842470023144672012-09-21T19:09:00.002-07:002012-09-21T19:11:51.775-07:00And now, a Guest Post from Maggie the Wonder Editor!
Hey, look, it's my editor, Maggie! I don't actually get to see her that often, but I'm pretty sure this is an accurate depiction of how she dresses to edit.
Hello! This is Maggie, Amy’s editor at Abrams Books. A few weeks ago, Amy and Publicist Overload Morgan asked me to write a little bit for the blog. I agreed right away before even stopping to consider that I didn’t have any ideasAmy Ignatowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103347284079664106noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8451824516129847443.post-17535486999067972452012-09-09T11:04:00.002-07:002012-09-09T11:04:54.277-07:00The 2012 Princeton Children's Book Festival!
Actual readers reading my actual books!!!
Dear readers, if you are squeamish about things like phlegm you may want to not continue reading, because I'm about to tell you all about it. A LOT. There will also be descriptions of all the great books and authors and readers that I hob-nobbed with yesterday at the Princeton Children's Book Festival, but mostly I'm going to whine about how Amy Ignatowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103347284079664106noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8451824516129847443.post-50830724666160287482012-09-02T16:28:00.003-07:002012-09-02T16:28:53.858-07:00The Awesomely Awful Melodies have been UPLOADED!!!!!!
And this is what the computer saw while we were sending all the files to the book designers at Amulet!
Amy Ignatowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103347284079664106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8451824516129847443.post-36784078374860958282012-08-24T16:20:00.000-07:002012-08-24T16:20:12.415-07:00And now, a Guest Post from Publicist Overlord Morgan!Hello! Publicist Overlord Morgan here to say a quick HELLO (in a non-threatening, no-weapon-yielding-today kind of way) to Amy’s loyal blog readers. I think we can all agree that answering YES to Amy’s initial question, “To Blog, or Not to Blog,” was a great idea. (If you disagree, please let me know @moregan on Twitter as not to spoil the array of positive reinforcement Amy receives in her Amy Ignatowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103347284079664106noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8451824516129847443.post-74934930517585807842012-08-18T10:35:00.001-07:002012-08-18T10:37:45.053-07:00And the title of the 5th Popularity Papers is...Coming up with a title for a book is not easy. Not only does it have to sound good, and not already be taken, and make sense, but it also has to be agreed upon by approximately 784 people at Amulet Books, as well as my literary agent, my husband, and my cat.
THIS IS A LIE! NO ONE LISTENS TO ME. Close the shower curtain, I need to be alone.
Usually I come up with a bunch of ideas. Some of Amy Ignatowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103347284079664106noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8451824516129847443.post-12403619351776915102012-08-12T01:12:00.000-07:002012-08-12T01:12:06.569-07:00PP5 Progress Report (wee hours edition)
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Demonstrating the important skill of drawing a bathing hamster in love
with a roll of toilet paper at the Hudson Library and Historical Society.
Ohio! Here we are once again, back in Mark's home state. We've traveled somewhere around 800 miles so far, from Philly to Pittsburgh to Hudson to Grandpa's Cheese Barn to Oberlin back past Grandpa's Cheese Barn to Dayton, where we are Amy Ignatowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103347284079664106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8451824516129847443.post-87793173109816675022012-05-23T16:17:00.000-07:002012-05-23T16:17:11.245-07:00On the road again...We have found ourselves in a La Quinta Inn in Moon, PA on the outskirts of Pittsburgh, and hooray, the internet is finally working. Yesterday we set off from Philadelphia, and after a day of driving through sun and rain (and sometimes both at the same time--the weather was weird yesterday) we made it here.
It's not so different from the last time we took a major, longer than a
long-weekend roadAmy Ignatowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103347284079664106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8451824516129847443.post-64720096746136943202012-04-02T05:37:00.006-07:002012-04-02T06:45:44.447-07:00The Popularity Papers 4 has LAUNCHED!!!IT'S HERE!!! IT'S HERE!!! PP4 IS HERE!!!!!April 2008Six years after graduating from art school (six years filled of the oddest assortment of part-time jobs, freelance work, and the general drama that comes with being a 2-something single, under-employed illustrator) my literary agent, Dan Lazar, asks, "Have you ever considered writing a graphic novel for kids?" and Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Amy Ignatowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103347284079664106noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8451824516129847443.post-7502088959566347202012-02-16T05:24:00.000-08:002012-02-16T06:28:06.784-08:00Merry Old England!Coming soon in paperback, hooray!Next month the paperback edition of my second book, The Popularity Papers 2: The Long-Distance Dispatch Between Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang is coming out! In it Lydia and her family relocate to London for six months, and she and Julie email and chat online about starting junior high and living in another country.I'm often asked if my books are based on Amy Ignatowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103347284079664106noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8451824516129847443.post-2156769091763863572012-01-11T06:49:00.001-08:002012-01-11T07:23:49.399-08:00Why I've Been a Negligent BloggerMeet Anya! She's pretty new.Hi Everyone!So we went and had a baby. She's pretty great, but taking care of her takes a lot of time (mostly doing laundry). But no worries, I'm back to writing and drawing books and I'm training her how to color them in. So far she just wants to put the markers into her mouth. It's an uphill process. But I'm really excited about PP4 coming out in April (The Amy Ignatowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103347284079664106noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8451824516129847443.post-3236413613363423792011-03-22T18:26:00.000-07:002011-03-23T04:17:44.588-07:00FATIGUE!3:15am EST. Wake up, shower, finish packing.4:04am EST. WAWA! Because you can't leave for a journey/come home from a journey without first going to Wawa. PHILLY LAW.4:43am EST. My dearest most wonderfullest husband drops me off at Philadelphia International Airport.4:51am EST. An airport worker tries to convince me that my rolly suitcase is too large for the overhead compartment, and that I need Amy Ignatowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103347284079664106noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8451824516129847443.post-24925325807760976672011-03-20T16:20:00.000-07:002011-03-20T16:57:44.907-07:00A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad JokeFred the Fish and Sam Clam were best friends, even though Fred the Fish was pretty square (he always goes to school) and Sam Clam was a little wild (he never met a mussel that he didn't want to pump). But still they were the best of friends.One day, Fred's school was caught and he became an excellent entree at a local bistro. But Fred's little fishy soul went to heaven, where he got some white Amy Ignatowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103347284079664106noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8451824516129847443.post-37088668254295851152010-11-21T03:00:00.000-08:002010-11-21T07:13:58.441-08:00Cartoons and Panels and Fish, Oh My!This picture doesn't have much to do with the rest of the Miami Book Fair, but it was an awesome sandwich.One of my biggest fears about coming down to the Miami Book Fair was that I'd make no friends. Mark told me not to worry--I'm a relatively social person, I'd make friends, it would be fine. But I had visions of myself alone in my room crying over my dinner of Nutrigrain bars on a Friday Amy Ignatowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103347284079664106noreply@blogger.com0