Welcome to my author/anime color palette series! Where my obsession with hex codes and middle grade/graphic novels come together. I'll break down an author's photo color palette and which animated character they remind me of. Karah Sutton, @karahdactyl, is the author of A Wolf for Spell. Published in 2020 and nominated for a #GoodReads Choice Award, readers voted on this "fantastical tale of a wolf who forms an unlikely alliance with Baba Yaga to save the forest from a wicked

Welcome to my author/anime color palette series! Where my obsession with hex codes and middle grade/graphic novels come together. I'll break down an author's photo color palette and which animated character they remind me of. Jenny Adams Perinovic, @JennyPerinovic, is an alumna of Blue Stoop’s 2019 YA Novel Intensive and the 2021 Tin House YA Workshop. Her books specialize in historical fantasy. While working on her WIPs for her agent, Jenny has also participated as a 2021 #P

Welcome to my author/anime color palette series! Where my obsession with hex codes and middle grade/graphic novels come together. I'll break down an author's photo color palette and which animated character they remind me of. Maedeh B. Saaina, @MaedehSaaina, is recognized for not only being one of Iran's youngest female university professors but also for providing great mentorship to fellow writers (including mentoring in #PitchWars). She contributes as a director's assistant

Welcome to my author/anime color palette series! Where my obsession with hex codes and middle grade/graphic novels come together. I'll break down an author's photo color palette and which animated character they remind me of. Co-host of Of the Publishing Persuasion podcast, Melanie Schubert, @M_L_Schubert, is proactive about connecting writers with the right insight. She is also the author of Gregory and the Grimbockle, published by New Wrinkle Publishing in 2017, and was a 2

Welcome to my author/anime color palette series! Where my obsession with hex codes and middle grade/graphic novels come together. I'll break down an author's photo color palette and which animated character they remind me of. Former #PitchWars mentee, Angela Montoya, @montayasangel, currently co-hosts Of the Publishing Persuasion podcast. She is also represented by boutique literary agency Jill Grinberg Literary Management. Angela is currently working on her YA Latinx fantasy

Welcome to my author/anime color palette series! Where my obsession with hex codes and middle grade/graphic novels come together. I'll break down an author's photo color palette and which animated character they remind me of. Hannah V. Sawyerr, @HannSawyerr, is a noteworthy 2021 #PitchWars Mentor and former Youth Poet Laureate of Baltimore (an honor awarded by DewMore Baltimore, the Baltimore Mayor's Office, Urban Word NYC, and Enoch Pratt Libraries). Her debut novel-in-verse

Welcome to my author/anime color palette series! Where my obsession with hex codes and middle grade/graphic novels come together. I'll break down an author's photo color palette and which animated character they remind me of. Talented returning #PitchWars mentor and graphic novelist, Aty S. Behsam, @ASBehsam, rocks a warm and icy author color palette. Aty has published stories in the UK, is working on a manga, Daryan, and YA novel, Dime a Dozen, and directs and produces one o

I get it! You want the good stuff. HOW DID I LAND MY AGENT!? First, let's start here: despite decades of writing, I only consider myself an actual author over the last 6 years. Once I realized the difference between "writer" and "author" everything changed. Nearly 6 years ago, I also met the love of my life. I met an exceptionally brilliant and equally obsessive creative (director/animator) who understood that I am an iron-willed author determined to pursue traditional publis