Pen and Link
Pen and Link is my quarterly email newsletter about writing, illustration, and making picture books. It's completely free, and well worth the paper it's printed on, which is none at all.
You can click here to subscribe to Pen and Link, or read recent issues below.
| Kuler, Google Alerts, Where the Wild Things Came From, Book Autopsies, How to Draw a Head, Freelancing Tips, The Mystery of the Face on the Cake | |
| Backbeard: Pirate For Hire, How to Write a Book (The Short, Honest Truth), How to Draw Little Orphan Annie, SmudgeGuard, Name That Color, The Lester Dent Pulp Fiction Plan, Underwear and Medieval Literacy, Built-in Books | |
| Bean Thirteen, Beautiful Dorena Painting Software, Tiny Writing, Paperback Swap, Carved Crayons, Writers/Illustrator's Block, Reading Off The Screen, 3-D Pulp Covers, Greatest Eraser Ever? | |
| Seamonkey, Rough Drafts and Revisions, Copyright Navigator, Peter Callesen's Paper Cuts, The Writing Automaton, Illustrationclass.com, Pirate Toast | |
| Survey results, The Envelope Collective, Norman Rockwell and Binky the Skunk, The Purple Crayon, On Someone Else's Desk, The Birth of Punched Paper, Books in One Syllable | |
| Google SketchUp, Digital Gallery of World Picture Books, English Mistakes That Really Aren't Mistakes, Pencils, Procrastination as a Good Thing, Paper Money as a Showcase for Art, Invisible Bookshelf | |
| Art Rage 2 (free painting software), Advice from Elmore Leonard, Artnatomy, Fun With Words, What Do Publishers Do?, Mad Magazine covers, Peter Rabbit in Hieroglyphics | |
| Richard Scarry Then and Now, The Life Expectancies of Books, Free Graph Paper, Day Jobs, Howtoons, Caricaturist Busts Bad Guy, Sketch Swap | |
| The Open Library Project, The British Library's Online Gallery, How to Make a Quill Pen, Soviet-era Children's Books, The Illustration Business, Language is a Virus, Beating Procrastination Part 2, The Zoomquilt. | |
| Project Gutenberg, Space Art in Children's Books, The Book House, Bookbinding, Painting Techniques, Brush Your Teeth! | |
| Random Name Generator, Expression 3, Beating Procrastination Part 1, Japanese Children's Books. |