You
just need one person to open that door for you. In the fall of 1999,
Tracy Gates was an editor at Knopf Books for Young Readers at Random
House. One of my promotional postcards landed on her desk, and it
piqued her interest, so she followed the URL listed on the card to my
website. Now, in the late 90s, that was a commitment—those
portfolio images took a long time to download. That same day, I fired
up my dial-up modem to check my email, and there was an email from
Tracy—inviting me in to show my work, wondering if I had written
any stories. From that meeting came GOOD NIGHT, MONKEY BOY, published
on June 12, 2001. Tracy also edited two of my other early picture
books—BAGHEAD and BUBBLE BATH PIRATES. What a thrill it was to see
her at last week’s reading of HEY, KIDDO in Brooklyn.
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