{"id":3780,"date":"2015-07-03T00:01:17","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T06:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3780"},"modified":"2015-07-03T10:08:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T16:08:12","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-daniel-miyares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3780","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at <em>Kirkus<\/em> This Week,<br \/>Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Daniel Miyares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/07\/sketches01cutting.jpg\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/07\/01large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/07\/01small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge second image)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a wee picture book round-up over at <em>Kirkus<\/em> today. That link is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/cats-and-ponies-and-pigs-oh-my\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>I wrote over at <em>Kirkus<\/em> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/new-beginnings\/\">last week<\/a><\/strong> about Daniel Miyares <em>Float<\/em> (Simon &#038; Schuster, June 2015), so today I follow up with some final spreads from the book. Daniel also sent some early sketches. <\/p>\n<p>Note: I wrote in that column last week that Daniel created these illustrations digitally. That wasn&#8217;t entirely correct, and it&#8217;s since been corrected over in my piece. These were rendered via watercolors with digital tools. <\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/07\/sketches04large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/07\/sketches04small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge sketch)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/07\/sketches01large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/07\/sketches01small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge sketch)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/07\/sketches02large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/07\/sketches02small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge sketch)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/07\/sketches03large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/07\/sketches03small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge sketch)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/07\/02large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/07\/02small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge spread)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/07\/03large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/07\/03small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge spread)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/07\/04large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/07\/04small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge spread)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/07\/05large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/07\/05small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge spread)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/07\/06large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/07\/06small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge spread)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/07\/07large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/07\/07small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge spread)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/07\/floatcover.JPG\" border=1><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>FLOAT. Copyright \u00a9 2015 by Daniel Miyares. Published by Simon &#038; Schuster Books for Young Readers, New York. Illustrations and sketches reproduced by permission of Daniel Miyares.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Click to enlarge second image) &nbsp; I&#8217;ve got a wee picture book round-up over at Kirkus today. That link is here. * * * I wrote over at Kirkus last week about Daniel Miyares Float (Simon &#038; Schuster, June 2015), so today I follow up with some final spreads from the book. Daniel also sent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780","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=3780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}