{"id":2568,"date":"2013-05-17T00:01:38","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T06:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2013-05-17T08:32:11","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T14:32:11","slug":"what-im-up-to-at-kirkus-this-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2568","title":{"rendered":"What I’m Up To at Kirkus<\/em> This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been chatting it up with people this week. Here’s the run-down:<\/p>\n

I’ve always wanted to chat with picture book author Linda Ashman<\/a><\/strong>. Today, I get to. That link is here<\/a><\/strong> today.<\/p>\n

Legend has it that Tom Jones—I’m sorry, but I just gotta<\/em> post his picture now—passed out in the studio when hitting the final, dramatic note of “Thunderball”<\/a><\/strong> for the 1965 James Bond film of the same name. I sort of imagine author\/illustrator Brian Floca<\/a><\/strong> similarly falling to the ground after having finished the artwork for Locomotive<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (coming from Atheneum this Fall), because it’s rather masterpiece’y. (That’s professional speak.) I won’t be at BEA this year, but I wrote about the book for Kirkus’<\/em> special BEA supplement<\/a><\/strong> (page 42!) in their current issue, and I chatted briefly with Brian about it. I’ll chat with him even longer in August and share some art then, too, from this beautiful piece of nonfiction.<\/p>\n

Finally: Yesterday, I chatted with author Matthew Olshan<\/a><\/strong> and illustrator Sophie Blackall<\/a><\/strong> about The Mighty Lalouche<\/em>, released by Schwartz & Wade this month. That Q&A is here<\/a><\/strong>, and next week I’ll have some of Sophie’s artwork, some sketches, and some of her research images.<\/p>\n

Until later …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been chatting it up with people this week. Here’s the run-down: I’ve always wanted to chat with picture book author Linda Ashman. Today, I get to. That link is here today. Legend has it that Tom Jones—I’m sorry, but I just gotta post his picture now—passed out in the studio when hitting the final, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-interviews","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}