Wednesday, January 02, 2013

A New Year to Look Forward To



I am very excited to embark upon a trip up the snowy mountain this coming weekend, along with a group of talented children's book illustrator friends.  It's a Book Dummy Weekend, in which we plan to do nothing but lock ourselves in a cabin and work super hard to finish our ongoing dummy(s).  I cannot wait to read my friends' stories!  Thanks, Erin O'Shea, for making this weekend happen!  (I will follow up on this event in another blogpost, for sure!)

Personally, I have several dummies in process, and I especially hope to finish up the one about elephants.  That particular story has been brewing for a while, and this weekend is THE weekend to wrap it up! 

Another event I look forward to is the New York SCBWI conference at the beginning of February!  I have never attended the New York conference and simply can't wait to meet up with old friends and make new ones!  Whoohoo New York!

Happy 2013, everyone!

3 comments:

Elizabeth Rose Stanton said...

Hi Maple! Lucky you to go on such a creative retreat. I think you can't go wrong with that adorable looking elephant. I am looking forward to seeing more!

Maple Lam said...

Thank you, Elizabeth. :)

Julie Rowan-Zoch said...

I'm jealous too! Maybe I just need to get an illustrator's group started, already have the snow and the mountains! Hope you had a blast!