Irene has been attending the annual Put Your Heart in a Book conference run by the New Jersey Romance Writers for years. It’s been a long time since I tagged along. I usually just stay at home and try to write, write, write, or if the print deadline for SCI FI magazine intervenes, edit, edit, edit. But this year I was able to set up a reunion some old friends and I have been trying to pull off for a long time (about which more later), so I decided to make the trip.

But since that reunion wasn’t going to happen until 2:00 p.m., which meant that I had the morning and early afternoon free, I had time to fit in an event I’d read about on one of the comic-oriented blogs I follow.

It turns out that John Scieszka was scheduled to speak Saturday morning at 11:00 as part of the annual meeting of the Lewis Carroll Society, and the event was open to non-members. Scieszka, author of The Stinky Cheese Man and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, had recently written a children’s book version of Alice in Wonderland based on the concept drawings done by artist Mary Blair for the 1951 Disney theatrical adaptation. (more…)