{"id":4615,"date":"2018-04-26T09:07:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T15:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4615"},"modified":"2018-04-26T09:07:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T15:07:39","slug":"my-kirkus-qa-with-cozbi-a-cabrera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4615","title":{"rendered":"My <em>Kirkus<\/em> Q&#038;A with Cozbi A. Cabrera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/04\/Cabrera_Cozbi_RGBforpost.jpg\" style=\"float:right;\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">Truth be told, I\u2019ve always been a secret writer. That\u2019s the thing about writing. You can write on for a long time and tuck it all away with only your significant other in the know, because there are bins upon bins of paper that travel with you on every major move, that sit in the dark basement, that don\u2019t pay rent in storage.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Over at <em>Kirkus<\/em> today, I talk with illustrator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cozbi.com\/\">Cozbi A. Cabrera<\/a><\/strong>, pictured here, whose newest picture book is one she also wrote, her first book as an author-illustrator. <em>My Hair Is a Garden<\/em> is on shelves now.  <\/p>\n<p>The Q&#038;A is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/finding-glories-cozbi-cabrera\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. Next week, I&#8217;ll follow up here at 7-Imp with a bit more art from the book. <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Truth be told, I\u2019ve always been a secret writer. That\u2019s the thing about writing. You can write on for a long time and tuck it all away with only your significant other in the know, because there are bins upon bins of paper that travel with you on every major move, that sit in the [&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-4615","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\/4615","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=4615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}