Read for the Record!

Tomorrow, October 19th is Read for the Record day! 

Read for the Record is the world's largest shared reading experience! Join us tomorrow as we attempt to break a world reading record. All you have to do is read Quackers and sign up at Readfortherecord.org in order to be counted!

If you are in Seattle, I'll be at the Beacon Hill Library on October 19th at 10:30 am for storytime, and at University Bookstore in Seattle at 7 pm. Come help celebrate Read for the Record day!

Goodreads giveaway

I'm doing a Goodreads giveaway for Quackers! Enter by June 12th!

Goodreads Book Giveaway

Quackers

by Liz Wong

Giveaway ends June 12, 2016.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

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Upcoming Events

A few upcoming events:

Sunday, May 22nd at 10 am, 
Third Place Books Seward Park, 5041 Wilson Ave, Seattle, WA 98118

I'll be helping to celebrate the Grand Opening of Third Place Book's new Seward Park location! I'll be there on Sunday, May 22nd at 10 am. Come by and I'll draw you a picture!


Saturday, May 28th at 11:15 am,
Barnes and Noble Lynnwood, 19401 Alderwood Mall Parkway, Lynnwood, WA 98036

Come by for a story time combo deal! Following the 11 am story time of Our Great Big Backyard, I'll read Quackers and draw some cats and ducks. Two story times in one!


Tuesday, June 7th at 11am
University Book Store, 4326 University Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105

I'll be at the main branch of University Book Store for story time, reading Quackers, answering questions and drawing pictures!

Quackers Coloring Page

Do you like coloring? You're in luck! You can download the Quackers coloring page here!

Story Time at University Book Store

I'll be doing story time at University Book Store Seattle on Tuesday, June 7th at 11 am!

Quackers Book Launch Party!

I'll be having a book launch party to celebrate the release of QUACKERS at Mockingbird Books in Seattle, April 2nd at 1:00 pm.

Writing process blog tour!

I got tagged in this writing process blog tour, by the massively talented Jen Corace. I've been a fan of Jen's work for years, but have gotten to know her through the magic of Twitter. Follow her on twitter, folks. She's really funny.

(To be completely honest, I actually got tagged in this tour some time ago by the lovely Laura Zarrin, but took so long to write my post that I got tagged again.)

What am i currently working on?

I'm currently working on my debut picture book, QUACKERS, which I wrote and illustrated. It's about a cat who is rather confused about his identity.

Cat or duck: you decide

How does my work differ from others of its genre?

Well, let me just lay it out here: I have a bizarre sense of humor. I fell out of a lot of trees as a child, and was raised on a steady diet of weird Japanese TV shows and terrifying picture books. All of which have combined to make me the extra special person I am now.

Why do i write what i write?

I am a very visual person, so I generally start with some odd image that pops into my head, and start wondering just what the heck is happening in this picture. How did they get here? Where are they going? How'd that bird get on that elephant's head? Etc, etc.

What's happening here? No one knows... yet.

how does my process work?

For QUACKERS, I started with an idea years ago, made the story far too complicated, and promptly misplaced the paper on which I had written out the story. Which, as it turns out, was a good thing.

Then I had a baby. This is an optional, and not necessarily recommended, part of the process. Good for the adorableness quotient of the household, bad for productivity and spare time.

Multiple years passed (due to aforementioned baby).

Eventually I emerged from the haze of sleep deprivation and remembered this story idea and wrote it out anew. Having read about 1 million picture books in the meantime (rough estimate), I ended up with a much snappier story.

I did thumbnail sketches to plot it out and make sure it fit into 32 pages, then sketched out the whole story and assembled into a dummy.

Hey, here's a sketch!

I transfer the sketches to watercolor paper, and spend way too long agonizing over it. I mean... I paint it. With my totally expert and really awesome watercolor skills. Then, when that doesn't work out, I tweak it using the wonders of Photoshop.

I work in my incredible studio space, aka a cramped desk in the playroom. Sometimes I use the Barbie dream house as a desk. 

Jealous?

Okay then! Who's next?

I'm tagging my critique group partner, Kathryn Dennis. She's an author/illustrator and a middle grade writer. Not so coincidentally, I did some illustrations for one of her middle grade novels, Camp Secret.