picture books - Majanka Verstraete

Author Interview with Lisa Sankar-Zhu

Today I’m interviewing Lisa Sankar-Zhu, author of children’s picture book “Harvey Hippo Wants To Fly”. Welcome, and thanks for answering my questions. Author Interview When did you know you wanted to be an author? Harvey Hippo Wants to Fly!” is one of the three books that I have written so far. Before I began writing […]

Majanka 8 years ago

Author Interviews Virtual Book Tours

Author Interview with Daniel Jude Miller

I’m interviewing Daniel Jude Miller, author of children’s book / picture book “Earclaw and Eddie”. Welcome to my blog, and thanks for answering my questions! Q. When did you know you wanted to be an author? A lot later than I realized that I wanted to be an artist. I’ve been drawing constantly since I […]

Majanka 10 years ago

Author Interviews Virtual Book Tours

Author Interview with Juanita Destra and Ronald Destra

I’m interviewing two authors today: Juanita Destra and Ronald Destra. Both authors worked on children’s picture book, “Fluffy the Bird”. I’ll be interviewing Juanita Destra first, and then I’ll interviewing Ronald Destra. Welcome to both authors, and thanks for taking the time to reply to my questions. Author Interview with Juanita Destra Q: When did […]

Majanka 10 years ago

Book Launches

It’s Release Day!

I got up extra early (nah, but anyway) to celebrate the release day for three of my books today. WHAT? THREE? Yep, you heard that right. I couldn’t be prouder. So today is the release of: Valentina and the Whackadoodle Witch (a picture book, and the sequel to Valentina and the Haunted Mansion), House of […]

Majanka 11 years ago

Picture Books Valentina's Spooky Adventures Virtual Book Tours

Book Tour for Valentina and the Haunted Mansion

I’ve been busy setting up a book tour for “Valentina and the Haunted Mansion”. There are still some empty spots left, so if you’d like to review the book, or have me on your blog with an author interview or guest post, or just host an excerpt, on one of the empty dates, please get […]

Majanka 11 years ago

Picture Books Release Day Party Valentina's Spooky Adventures

Happy Release Day Valentina and the Haunted Mansion!

Today is the release day of my debut novel, Valentina and the Haunted Mansion. Can you say WOW? I’ll work on revamping my blog and keeping it up to date with the purchase links this week. Meanwhile, go buy your copy on one of these places: Amazon (Paperback) or Amazon (Kindle), B&N, Evolved Publishing and […]

Majanka 12 years ago

Monthly Goals

Monthly Goals May 2013

April was a horrible month in terms of writing. Worst part is that I barely get why. I had time to write, but I wasted it doing God knows what else. Either way, I’m hoping to make up for that in May. This month I’ll mostly focus on finishing all (or some) of my works […]

Majanka 12 years ago

Picture Books Valentina's Spooky Adventures

ARCs available for Valentina and The Haunted Mansion

Great news, everyone! The ARC copies for my picture book, Valentina and The Haunted Mansion, are ready to go out into the world and (hopefully) capture some people’s hearts! The first 20 people to contact me on Facebook (just leave a message on my page), comment here, or contact me through email can get a […]

Majanka 12 years ago

Allegro Academy Picture Books Weekly Writing Goals

Weekly Writing Goals (11)

Each week I write down my goals for the week. Here’s my list of goals I hope to accomplish this week: Finish the first draft of Andante (Allegro Academy #2). Current status: 50k/65k words. Work on query critiques for clients. Redesign my author website (as you can see, I’m halfway through this already, but the […]

Majanka 12 years ago

Monthly Goals

Monthly Goals February 2013

One of my New Year’s resolutions is to keep track of my writing goals each month and to write them down on this blog. Here are my goals for February: Edit chapter four and five of Ghostslayer (around 10k words). Revise chapter six, seven, eight and nine of Ghostslayer (around 20-30k words). Write until the […]

Majanka 12 years ago

Majanka Verstraete

Tag: picture books

Author Interview with Lisa Sankar-Zhu

Author Interview with Daniel Jude Miller

Author Interview with Juanita Destra and Ronald Destra

It’s Release Day!

Book Tour for Valentina and the Haunted Mansion

Happy Release Day Valentina and the Haunted Mansion!

Monthly Goals May 2013

ARCs available for Valentina and The Haunted Mansion

Weekly Writing Goals (11)

Monthly Goals February 2013

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