Veronica Miller Jamison

It helped me so much when I was working on my first book!

If I could go back to my novice self, I'd tell her to just have one tiny sketchbook for ideas, and keep it on her at all times. Ideas get lost if you try to take a mental note, or rely on a phone picture, or have too many sketchbooks lying around! #kidlitchat

The best advice I've gotten as an illustrator was to not chase perfection.

"Every spread doesn't have to be perfect" - in the sense that perfect doesn't exist, and you burn precious time trying to reach it. For me, this mantra relieves some of the pressure of an project as big as a PB. #kidlitchat

Sitting down just in time to take part in #kidlitchat tonight. Hi #kidlit and #kidlitart friends! 👋🏽

Muscle memory is a wild thing, isn't it? I have to retrain my hands to go to B instead of T when I'm looking to see what folks are talking about online. I do enjoy that BlueSky is becoming a cozy #kidlit community. I'm aiming to jump in more.

Oh, thank you kindly! 💜

Hi Debbie! I've worked with Candlewick and have several books with LBYR!

Veronica is making art on Substack! Follow me as I share my illustration process, my art inspirations and musings on making a creative life.

#Booksky friends, I've started a Substack. It's where I'll be sharing process videos of my work and musings about being a professional illustrator. Would love to have you there! 🩵💜💚

open.substack.com/pub/veronica...

When we say “tech guys need the humanities too” we’re not talking about diluting the pool of Linus Torvalds with underwater basket weavers, we’re talking about arming them with enough literacy to comprehend Sci-Fi in a way that doesn’t get them sued by Scarlett Johansson

It's amazing how much of this overlaps with book #publishing. Production and book costs are steadily increasing while sales in various segments decrease + employees aren't well compensated. Analyze the business model & make it accessible for consumers instead of overflowing the market w/ product.

“Don’t trust everything you read on the internet.”

AI search results: what if I did tho

Art Talk with Jason Reynolds

A Kweli Journal newsletter pointed me to this 2020 Q&A with Jason Reynolds, which is GOLDEN for #kidlit writers:

"I think every person who reads wants to feel like they're turning those pages rapidly... It's a progress clock. Who doesn't like to see their progress?"

www.arts.gov/stories/blog...

Over the last few months, I've noticed the heads of non-tech companies announcing that they're "leaning into AI"... but they never explain HOW.

It feels very similar to when random companies were jumping onto the NFT bandwagon. We see where that went.

More support for the theory that OpenAI is equal parts “never have an original idea” + “steal other people’s work because you’re constitutionally incapable of imagining anything on your own”—with a hefty dollop of “fetishize women and refuse to take no for an answer.”

Welcome! 😁

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 4/20 #booksky

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 3/20 #booksky

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 2/20 #booksky

Oh no, I've missed days 2, 3, and 4. Lmao.

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 1/20 #booksky

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Oh, it's #booksky over here now? I'm with it.

Oh gosh, I've had this account for a while but didn't realize haven't posted yet. I promise I'm real! 🫣