The Book Echoes podcast interviewed me about TROUBLE WITH PARSNIPS

Connie B. Dowell of the Authoring Onward podcast (formerly called BookEchoes) interviewed me about Trouble With Parsnips It’s about a quiet inventor princess and is the first book in the Seven Kingdoms Fairy Tale series for ages 9 to 12. For more about this zany fairy tale and our heroine’s public speaking problems, listen to […]

Want to read a brand-new children’s book? Spoiler: It’s mine. :)

My first children’s book is coming out today in paperback!!! And ebook!! and Kindle!! YAY! *dances from living room to kitchen and back* WARNING: There are root vegetables involved. And princesses. And a dessert sluice with cream puffs. But the nameless princess of Cochem has it, um, under control. Because I’m shy and retiring, you […]

Join me over at SCBWI Germany + Austria: I’m blogging about doodling

My doodle for the SCBWI Europolitan Conference in Belgium. ©Laurel Decher, 2017. Hanging out with all of the illustrators at the 2017 SCBWI Europolitan Conference in Belgium must have rubbed off on me. I created the doodle above on the train ride home. Just what I needed, a quick way to ‘revisit’ the conference in […]