Marsha Qualey, Author at Bookology Magazine https://www.bookologymagazine.com/author/marsha-qualey Children's Literature Sun, 14 Mar 2021 15:19:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 69996714 Cloth and the Picture Book: Storytelling with Textile Techniques https://www.bookologymagazine.com/listology/cloth-and-the-picture-book-storytelling-with-textile-techniques https://www.bookologymagazine.com/listology/cloth-and-the-picture-book-storytelling-with-textile-techniques#comments Wed, 15 Nov 2017 13:00:20 +0000 https://www.bookologymagazine.com/?post_type=article&p=12583 Author and illustrator Debra Frasier was invited to lecture on this topic to the Western North Carolina Textile Study Group, and the public, in mid-November 2017. This is the bibliography that accompanies Debra’s presentation, with book selections by Debra Frasier and Vicki Palmquist.
If you would like to invite Debra to give this presentation to your group, please contact her.… more

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]]> https://www.bookologymagazine.com/listology/cloth-and-the-picture-book-storytelling-with-textile-techniques/feed 1 12583 Pigs Galore https://www.bookologymagazine.com/listology/pigs-galore https://www.bookologymagazine.com/listology/pigs-galore#comments Tue, 24 Oct 2017 21:38:49 +0000 https://www.bookologymagazine.com/?post_type=article&p=12431 This past September, after years of writing and teaching the writing of realistic YA fiction, I was pleased to launch into the world a set of four early chapter books. Not surprisingly, the challenge of telling a story in 1000 words instead of 60,000 was huge. It was not the only challenge.
Instead of focusing on a teen girl in turmoil, I was now writing about a talking pig.… more

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]]> https://www.bookologymagazine.com/listology/pigs-galore/feed 2 12431 Skinny Dip with Stephanie Greene https://www.bookologymagazine.com/skinny-dip/skinny-dip-with-stephanie-greene https://www.bookologymagazine.com/skinny-dip/skinny-dip-with-stephanie-greene#respond Wed, 30 Dec 2015 13:00:24 +0000 https://www.bookologymagazine.com/?post_type=article&p=7809 What keeps you up at night?
Not much. If I do wake up and start worrying about something, I put my newest plot dilemma into my brain. Puzzling over it puts me right to sleep.
What is your proudest career moment?
I guess I’m most proud that I’m still coming up with fresh ideas after twenty years.… more

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]]> https://www.bookologymagazine.com/skinny-dip/skinny-dip-with-stephanie-greene/feed 0 7809 In Memoriam https://www.bookologymagazine.com/features/in-memoriam https://www.bookologymagazine.com/features/in-memoriam#respond Wed, 30 Dec 2015 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.bookologymagazine.com/?post_type=article&p=7931 2015 saw the passing of several authors and illustrators of English-language children’s books. We share this in their honor and to say “thank-you” once again.… more

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]]> https://www.bookologymagazine.com/features/in-memoriam/feed 0 7931 At the Dying of the Year https://www.bookologymagazine.com/knock-knock/at-the-dying-of-the-year https://www.bookologymagazine.com/knock-knock/at-the-dying-of-the-year#comments Tue, 29 Dec 2015 13:00:29 +0000 https://www.bookologymagazine.com/?post_type=article&p=7875 by Virginia Euwer Wolff

Now winter downs the dying of the year,
And night is all a settlement of snow… 
—Richard Wilbur, “Year’s End” 

 We all have our circles of particularly mourned lost ones. As our hemisphere darkens down in this elegiac season of the winter equinox, and death has been so relentlessly in the air during 2015, I wave my own little flags of gratitude to some of my mentors and accidental teachers.… more

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