Marissa Moss
Marissa Moss
Marissa Mossis an American children's book author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth29 September 1959
CountryUnited States of America
allow attracted kept mixing notebooks since
Notebooks allow for all kinds of record-keeping, and I kept one myself as a kid. I was attracted to mixing up words and pictures freely, since that's how I think.
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More than conventional picture books, the notebook format allows me to leap from words to images, and this free-flowing back-and-forth inspires my best work. It reflects the way I think - sometimes visually, sometimes verbally - with the pictures not there just to illustrate the text but to replace it, to tell their own story.
promote
With the big publishers, they publish 50 books and promote five.
harry next publishing sell york
New York publishing is about, 'What's the next Harry Potter? What's the next Twilight?' When I've approached people, I've asked, 'What is the book you've been dying to do, but New York won't do?' I want the books that they think won't sell - because I think they will.
historical knowledge
When I'm working on historical books, I'm much more organized. I usually read about 100 books to get the depth of knowledge I need.
hard work
Writing is hard, hard work; that's just the way it is.
frame life rather shows
Amelia shows that it's not what happens in life that counts, but rather how you frame it, how you talk about it.
good hoping
You write, hoping to write a good book; that's it.
became wrote
I sat down and wrote what I remembered about being nine, and that eventually became 'Amelia's Notebook.'
nine since ten time
My memories of being nine or ten years old are especially vivid, since this is the time when you have a real sense of who you are - before the self-conscious preteen years start.
graphic innovative novel press risk small willing
Long before 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid', 'Dork Diaries', and the graphic novel explosion, only a small press like Tricycle was willing to take a risk on such an innovative format.
compelled drawn felt finish opened
Once I opened a book, I felt compelled to finish it. I was drawn into a world, and I had to know what would happen, how it would end.
art cluttered design literacy matters recognize send visual
Not only is writing more important than ever, but visual literacy is vital. We don't teach enough design, art, visual things. We have to recognize what we're seeing. It matters if you send someone a cluttered design. It matters more than ever.
most-amazing
It is often while you are looking for something else entirely that you make the most amazing finds.