“Advocacy in the Off Season” at TLA, and connecting with Texas authors

Greetings to those […]

By Chris Barton|2026-03-23T21:06:22-05:00March 23rd, 2026|Advocacy in the Off Season, Authors Against Book Bans, Chris Barton, Education Service Centers, How Now Booking, Lone Star Literary Life, SCBWI, Texas Institute of Letters, Texas Library Association, Writers' League of Texas|0 Comments

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Glitter Everywhere! is a Crystal Kite winner!

What award […]

By Chris Barton|2024-06-30T15:03:55-05:00June 30th, 2024|Chaaya Prabhat, Charlesbridge, Chris Barton, Crystal Kite Award, Glitter Everywhere, SCBWI|0 Comments

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Discovering Texas creators of books for young readers

Greetings to those […]

By Chris Barton|2024-06-04T06:04:21-05:00May 31st, 2024|Chris Barton, Cynthia Levinson, Education Service Centers, Lone Star Literary Life, SCBWI, TASLA, Texas Association of School Library Administrators, Texas Institute of Letters, Texas Library Association, Texas library visits, Texas school libraries, Texas school visits, Writers' League of Texas|0 Comments

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“Writing a book is like making a friend. Some … open up immediately…” (2-question Q&A and giveaway for June 2018)

Welcome […]

By Chris Barton|2020-06-17T13:59:26-05:00June 1st, 2018|2-question Q&A, and the Beast, Austin SCBWI, Bartography Express, Chris Barton, giveaway, Samantha M. Clark, SCBWI|5 Comments

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Sign up now for my summer online classes about school visits

Registration […]

By Chris Barton|2020-10-05T17:24:04-05:00May 22nd, 2018|Austin SCBWI, author visits, Chris Barton, SCBWI, school visits|0 Comments

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A great idea for local authors and indie booksellers

And it comes from Austin, Texas — home to me, […]

By Chris Barton|2018-04-23T06:03:27-05:00April 23rd, 2018|Austin SCBWI, BookPeople, Chris Barton, SCBWI|0 Comments

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Key steps on my journey with Don Tate (so far!)

Yesterday morning marked the debut of a new presentation with […]

By Chris Barton|2016-08-14T08:07:44-05:00August 14th, 2016|Charlesbridge, Chris Barton, Don Tate, Eerdmans, Peachtree, Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton of Ch, SCBWI, The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch, Whoosh!|1 Comment

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Bartography Express for January 2015, featuring Trent Reedy’s Burning Nation

This month, one subscriber to my Bartography Express newsletter will […]

By Chris Barton|2015-01-22T14:11:45-05:00January 22nd, 2015|88 Instruments, Bartography Express, Burning Nation, Chris Barton, Don Tate, Eerdmans, Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival, giveaway, How Not to Be Popular, Jennifer Ziegler, Let's Get Busy, Matthew Winner, Mighty Truck, NCTE, podcasts, Revenge of the Angels, Revenge of the Flower Girls, SCBWI, Shark vs. Train, Stony Brook Southampton's Children's Literature Fellows, Texas Library Association, That's Not Bunny!, The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch, The Nutcracker Comes to America, Tom Lichtenheld, Trent Reedy, Whoosh!|0 Comments

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2015 Austin SCBWI Conference: You will win!

(What’s with the Shark Vs. Train reference in the post […]

By Chris Barton|2014-11-30T07:17:32-05:00November 30th, 2014|Austin SCBWI, Chris Barton, Conference, SCBWI, Shark vs. Train, Tom Lichtenheld|0 Comments

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Greg Pincus’ The 14 Fibs of Gregory K.

(Note: The following is from the most recent edition of […]

By Chris Barton|2014-11-30T07:29:00-05:00December 6th, 2013|Chris Barton, Greg PIncus, SCBWI|0 Comments

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