I am touched and a little overwhelmed. Last Friday, Tara Lazar featured my blog "Alli Brydon Recycles" for Day 25 of Storystorm (which you can read more about here). In this blog post, I spoke about taking your own old picture book ideas and turning them into something new. As a result, a huge number of new readers subscribed to my blog. Thank you, and welcome! It's freaking freezing out here, amirite? I hope you took away something valuable from that post, enjoyed my silly r

Last week was a bit of a crazy one! In addition to the umpteenth snow storm/Nor'easter we've seen this month (and 10th snow day off from school), there was some exciting news over here at Alli Brydon Creative: (for more on this, including my Twitter thread and the YouTube clip, click here) Yup, I was the editor and project manager on the picture book A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, aka the #BetterBundoBook, published by HBO's Emmy-Award winning show Last Week Tonight with

#kidlitbot mascot and logo created by children's book illustrator Mike Ciccotello The hilarious and talented children's book author, Tara Lazar, was so kind to feature me on her blog this week! And what am I guest blogging about over there, you ask? Something I dreamed up called #Kidlitbot, a weekly children's book writing prompt that I started on Twitter. #Kidlitbot is an idea generator for authors, illustrators, and author-illustrators to use as a springboard to write the f