All About My Author Visits My author presentation is a fun, fast-paced explanation of how I create my books. Using an interactive digital slide show, I explain the writing process from generating ideas to the final book. I emphasize all the revising and editing I do to my work to finish it. I share many rough drafts with the students and explain why it's so important to keep working and reworking the writing. I show how the story develops and improves as I continue revising my work. I also show how I create the artwork to go with the books. I share thumbnail sketches, reference pictures, final sketches. I explain how the writing and illustrating processes are linked for me and how words and pictures work together to build the story. I bring actual artwork from the books as well as sharing my current works in progress. I end the presentation with a drawing demonstration using an audience volunteer as a model. I also discuss what it's really like to be an author for a living and share “top secret” information about what authors do all day.