Official Participant in the Julie Hedlund 12 x 12 Picture Book Challenge
Soooo excited – I’ve signed up as a Golden Book Member of Julie Hedlund’s 12 month picture book challenge for 2014.
(I find I need deadlines to actually finish fiddling with manuscripts and let them go.)
There’s lots of support and encouragement from fellow participants – many who’re also members of SCWBI.
Julie offers the amazing chance to send a manuscript to an approved agent each month.
At the very least, I’ll have quite a few new picture book ideas to hawk to local publishers at the end of the year!
SUZETTE THE SNAKE
Suzette the snake was swish.
She slithered with style
and spoke with a lisp.
Her sensitive stomach
seeks special cuisine,
especially cleaned
in rivers and streams.
She swims in salt lakes
with sensuous ease,
sleeps under shade trees,
shivers out in the breeze.
Skin silvery bronze
sun-yellow striped along.
Speeding through leaves
she startles a feed.
Surely her sparkle
and shimmering shape,
proves beauty is found
in a slithering snake!
Frances Macaulay Forde @ 2001
From my 1st book of poems ‘Hidden Capacity ~ a poet’s journey’ Published in Cork, Ireland, 2003.
So the gauntlet has been thrown and I must rise to the challenge.
