{"id":3933,"date":"2015-11-27T11:38:36","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T17:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3933"},"modified":"2015-11-27T11:38:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T17:38:36","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-week-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3933","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Doing at <em>Kirkus<\/em> This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/11\/Keith-Negleyuse.jpg\" style=\"float:right;\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">I never thought I\u2019d spend so much time re-writing a few sentences.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\nYesterday over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I wrote about <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomie.com\/\">Tomie dePaola&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> slim new book for children, <em>Look and Be Grateful<\/em>. That is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/look-and-be-grateful\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>This morning, I chat with illustrator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.keithnegley.com\/\">Keith Negley<\/a><\/strong>, pictured here (and quoted above), about his debut picture book, <em>Tough Guys (Have Feelings Too)<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Keith&#8217;s client list includes such names as <em>The New York Times<\/em> and <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, but this is his debut as a children\u2019s book creator. <\/p>\n<p>That Q&#038;A is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/toughing-it-out-keith-negley\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Happy holidays to all!<\/p>\n<p>Until Sunday &#8230; <\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of Keith Negley used by his permission.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I never thought I\u2019d spend so much time re-writing a few sentences.\u201d &nbsp; Yesterday over at Kirkus, I wrote about Tomie dePaola&#8217;s slim new book for children, Look and Be Grateful. That is here. * * * This morning, I chat with illustrator Keith Negley, pictured here (and quoted above), about his debut picture book, [&hellip;]<\/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-3933","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\/3933","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=3933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}