09/08/10
Seems like my summer is ending with quite a bang! Three new wonderful reviews on my book Greetings from Kiwi and Pear just came in within the last few weeks. I provided excerpts for the first two reviews, to read the rest, click on the links to the blogs. For the third I posted the [...]
Tags: children's book, cute everything, dianne de las casas, Joyce Wan, kiwi and pear, reviews, thats it mommy, the story connection
07/12/10
The wonderful people at Jade Magazine, the online magazine aimed at professional Asian and APA women in their twenties and thirties, interviewed me recently for a profile piece about myself and my company Wanart. I’ve provided an excerpt below, to read the entire interview visit their website here.
In the Cards: An Interview with Joyce Wan
Although [...]
Tags: design, entrepreneur, greeting cards, greetings from kiwi and pear, Joyce Wan, kiwi and pear, small business, Wanart
06/13/10
What a crazy week! I attended the NJ SCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators) 2010 Conference last weekend in Princeton then flew off to Las Vegas for a few days to check out the Licensing Expo! My head is buzzing with new ideas about books, licensing, and design.
Check out my recap of the [...]
Tags: art licensing, bumblebee, Joyce Wan, licensing, Licensing Expo, NJ SCBWI Conference, NJ-SCBWI, picture books, transformers, Wanart, writing conference
05/24/10
There’s a SCBWI New Jersey Chapter conference in a couple of weeks. These conferences are great as we get to take workshops on a variety of book topics as well as sign up for a one-on-one critique on a manuscript with an editor or literary agent! They also get me motivated to work on [...]
Tags: children's book, Joyce Wan, NJ-SCBWI, picture books, scbwi
01/20/10
Gearing up for the New York International Gift Fair at the end of the month. I will be debuting new Kiwi and Pear designs among other items! Please stop by and see us in the Wanart booth #1848 if you will be attending. Take a sneak peek at our new gift enclosure collection!
Tags: gift enclosures, greeting cards, Joyce Wan, new york international gift fair, nyigf, stationery, Wanart
03/22/09
I was reflecting a little about how this year is going so far and it seems to be in keeping with what the Year of the Ox is supposed to be about. Here’s a postcard that I sent out to my customers at the beginning of the year to promote some of my ox products:
The [...]
Tags: barack obama, chinese astrology, chinese zodiac, Joyce Wan, lunar calendar, lunar new year, ox, oxen, Wanart, year of the ox
03/18/09
“Greetings from Kiwi and Pear” is finally available on the web! Here are the direct links to places where you can find it:
Chronicle Books
Amazon
Barnes and Noble
Borders
So exciting!!!
Tags: children's book, children's book author, children's books, cute monkeys, geography book, hugging monkeys, Joyce Wan, kiwi and pear, monkeys, travel books, Wanart, world map
02/14/09
It was so exciting to see my book in the Chronicle Books booth along with all the other books at the New York Gift Fair a couple of weeks ago – it was almost surreal! It’s fun to think that I met my publisher at this very show just a year ago. I got some [...]
Tags: children's book, Joyce Wan, kiwi and pear, Wanart
12/15/08
Here are scanned pages from the catalog showing the Greetings from Kiwi and Pear book and the Travel Flash Cards!
(Greetings from Kiwi and Pear – left side of spread) “Travel around the world with Kiwi and Pear! – Kiwi and Pear are a pair of monkeys who do everything together, and now they’re off on [...]
Tags: Books, children, children's book, children's book author, cute monkeys, flash cards, greetings from kiwi and pear, Joyce Wan, kiwi and pear, monkeys, picture books, travel, travel books, Wanart
11/19/08
Welcome to the Kiwi and Pear blog where you will find the latest news along with information pertaining to the highly-anticipated Kiwi and Pear book “Greetings from Kiwi and Pear” which is coming out in Spring of 2009! Here are some concept sketches I did for the book dummy before taking the book to finish:
Tags: blue apple books, Books, children, children's book, children's book author, cute monkeys, flash cards, greetings from kiwi and pear, Joyce Wan, kiwi and pear, monkeys, picture books, travel, travel books, Wanart