Sue Eves

Member Sue Eves has volunteered to administer pbCritique, which will focus only on picture book texts. Sue, who was the voice and puppeteer of Tamba on the children's programme Tikkabilla, has just seen the publication of her picture book The Quiet Woman and the Noisy Dog. The book's early drafts were critiqued on eCritique.

pbCritique already has 15 members who signed up from the original roster at eCritique. The intention is to keep membership small, unlike eCritique which has 48 signed-up members and so for now, pbCritique will not be accepting members.

Who knows, perhaps success of this experiment may point the way to more eCritique sub-groups. YACritique, anyone?

Edit: If members are interested in volunteering to set up their own critique blogs and want to use the eCritique system, get in touch with Candy for more information.

eCritique uses a blog to post manuscripts and comment on work. the idea is that the conversation and comments are available even to latecomers to the blog. The blog is set to private and are not accessible to Google and can only be accessed with a password . Adminstrators keep an eye on appropriate use and tempers (although interestingly, on eCritique, we find that everyone is quite polite and nice -- when a comment has been a bit heavy, someone always comes along and says something to balance it off), as well as adding and removing members and responding to queries and troubleshooting technical problems.