SARAH TOWLE

AUTHOR * PODCASTER * PRESENTER * EDUCATOR * COACH

Excavating the secrets, scandals, and untold stories hiding below the surface of life, and giving voice to the characters who make or made those hiStories happen.

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#LA13SCBWI Conference Sneak Peek: App Chat w/ Author/Illustrator Roxie Munro

July 24, 2013 in SCBWI-LA, Digital Publishing, Video Tutorials, App Development

When I grow up, I want to be Roxie Munro. Roxie is an inspiration. Author and illustrator of more than 35 mostly nonfiction and concept books, she has also plunged into the app world with aplomb. What's fascinating is that Roxie’s a-MAZE-ing Vacation Adventure and Roxie’s Doors, both developed in collaboration with Omar Curiere and his team at OCG Studios in Amsterdam, offer two different potential paths to digital development. And the partnership is far from done.

They've got a third app project due to hit the streets this September that I'm just aching to get my fingers on. It's a series of augmented reality (AR) apps linked to Roxie's previously designed and illustrated kids interactive walk-in storybooks created with KIWiStoryBooks.

Roxie's next picture book, Slithering Snakes, is also on its way -- I had a chance to preview some of the spreads for this book when I visited Roxie in April 2012. It's great!

She's also stirring up some sort of "secret sauce", chock full of interactivity, that we should be hearing about soon...

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#LA13SCBWI Conference Sneak Peek #1: Lee Wind's Official Conference Blog

July 22, 2013 in SCBWI-LA, App Development

Okay, peeps, my groovy new website now launched, I turn my attention almost exclusively -- I still have a dog to walk and a few mouths to feed -- to preparing my presentations for the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Annual Summer Conference in Los Angeles.

This is my first SCBWI-LA Conference -- I've done NY, Bologna and New England, some of them more than once. And I'm all jazzed up because this time I'll also be presenting, which is exciting and scary all at the same time. Plus, I NEVER get to LA, so that's pretty cool too.

I am thrilled to be sharing the podium -- not once, but twice -- with the lovely, the dynamic fellow author, app developer and Hen&ink Literary Agency chick, Julie Hedlund. We will be talking on all the things, both wacky and wonderful, that we've learned through first-hand experience about publishing in a digital world.