Archives for anna hines

Why I agreed to partner with Alex to critique stories for Kwik users and what to expect from a story critique?

With the introduction of our new  Storyline Review service, find out why Anna Hines partnered with us to critique stories. The text below was written by her. My life’s work has been about creating stories for kids. As soon as the possibility of putting stories into apps came up, with some PhotoShop and Painter experience, and a tiny bit of html from years of maintaining my webpage, I jumped in to give it a try. When I first started looking at the story apps that were coming out (late 2010) I found most to be very disappointing. I found a few really nice apps based on already published books such as,…

Is my story good enough?

Introducing Storyline Review Services Most Kwik users are publishing stories for the first time. Their amazing excitement sometimes goes down when a reviewer says "the story is confuse" or "illustrations are gorgeous but story not much". To avoid (real) situations like that, we are offering a new service called Storyline Review. We have partnered with experienced, many times published, author and illustrator, Anna Hines, a long time Kwik user, to provide a detailed critique on how to improve your story, BEFORE starting to create your storybook app (with Kwik or with any other product or vendor). Save your time, money and frustration! Feel free to check Anna's thoughts on this service. I strongly...

Introducing the Artist Spotlight – Anna Hines

Starting today, once a month we will introduce an artist, using Kwik to create storybook or games. The idea behind the Artist Spotlight is to promote great users, creating amazing apps. For this introductory posting, I would like to present Anna Hines, who has used Kwik for a long time, creating beautiful storybooks, the last one, “Bean’s Night“, received the Kirkus’ Star’s Review, a very hard to achieve recognition. Kwiksher’s questions are in bold, to facilitate the reading. Feel free to send more questions to Anna via comments below. I am sure she will appreciate. Enjoy! Tell us a little bit about you. Where are you based, for how long are you…