{"id":1487,"date":"2014-10-01T19:12:10","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T02:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2014-10-05T08:34:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T15:34:46","slug":"awesome-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/2014\/10\/01\/awesome-authors\/","title":{"rendered":"Awesome authors!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are two new fantastic graphic novels in the library:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/files\/2014\/10\/sisters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1489\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/files\/2014\/10\/sisters.jpg\" alt=\"sisters\" width=\"186\" height=\"271\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/files\/2014\/10\/amulet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1490\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/files\/2014\/10\/amulet.jpg\" alt=\"amulet\" width=\"183\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday night I had the opportunity to listen to the authors, Raina Telgemeier and Kazu Kibuishi, and meet them. It was a fabulous evening and I learned a lot about the creative process. There were so many kids there and they were all excited to meet the authors.<\/p>\n<p>A few things I remember:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Raina draws everything in a rough draft before she submits it to her editor.<\/li>\n<li>Kazu writes everything down like a script before he draws.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Repetitive practice is the key to sucess.&#8221; Kazu<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Try not to make decisions based on fear.&#8221; Kazu<\/li>\n<li>One of Raina&#8217;s favourite books as a kid was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Calvin and Hobbes<\/span>.<\/li>\n<li>After both author have drawn their comics in ink, they have colourists who add the colour.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Three great things about the night:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My daughter got to ask Raina a question in front of the whole audience.<\/li>\n<li>I met Raina Tegelmeier and she knows who I am on Twitter.<\/li>\n<li>Seeing students and former students at the event.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/files\/2014\/10\/rainakazu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1491\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/files\/2014\/10\/rainakazu-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"rainakazu\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/files\/2014\/10\/rainakazu-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/files\/2014\/10\/rainakazu.jpg 321w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can you guess who some of these mystery readers are?<\/p>\n<p>Come see me in the library to check out these new books and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two new fantastic graphic novels in the library: On Sunday night I had the opportunity to listen to the authors, Raina Telgemeier and Kazu Kibuishi, and meet them. It was a fabulous evening and I learned a lot about the creative process. There were so many kids there and they were all excited &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/2014\/10\/01\/awesome-authors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Awesome authors!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,44,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1494,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions\/1494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}