Kiwi and Pear’s World Adventure iPhone and iPod Touch app for children has finally launched! Learn more, read reviews, and download on the iTunes App Store
 

 
Based on my picture book Greetings from Kiwi and Pear and produced by Zephyr Games, Kiwi and Pear’s World Adventure, is an interactive/animated storybook that follows the two lovable [...]

I just received a sales sample of one of my books coming out next year with Cartwheel/Scholastic and I am over the moon with excitement! There is glitter on the cover!! What is better than a book with a sparkly pink cover??? Here is a sneak preview:
 

 
I can’t believe I have to wait until August [...]

 
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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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!
 

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 [...]

“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!!!

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 [...]