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Aline Pereira,
on 9/1/2011
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Skipping Stones Youth Honor Award Winners Announced
Fremantle Children’s Literature Centre Exhibits and Programs~ Fremantle, Australia
Dromkeen National Centre for Picture Book Art Exhibits~ Riddells Creek, Australia
Books Illustrated Events and Exhibitions~ Middle Park, Australia
Screenings for Library of the Early Mind: a documentary film exploring childrens literature~ Canada and USA
International Youth Library Exhibits~ Munich, Germany
Seven Stories (the National Home of Children’s Books in Britain) Events~ Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Discover Children’s Story Centre~ London, United Kingdom
The National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature Exhibits~ Abilene, TX, USA
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1st Biennial IBBY Africa Conference~ ongoing until Sep 2, Polokwane, South Africa
IBBY Germany Presents Kein Kinderspiel! [No child's play!]: A Workshop for Translators~ ongoing until Sep 2, Hamburg, Germany
Western Australia Spring Poetry Festival and National Poetry Week~ ongoing until Sep 4, Australia
Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF)~ ongoing until Sep 4, Beijing, China
Delhi Book Fair~ ongoing until Sep 4, Delhi, India
Museum of Childhood Exhibit: Author and Illustrator Judith Kerr~ ongoing until Sep 4, London, United Kingdom
Nairn Book & Arts Festival~ ongoing until Sep 4, Nairn, United Kingdom
Children’s Books Link the World – Hans Christian Andersen Award 2010 & IBBY Honour List 2010~ ongoing until Sep 11, Tokyo, Japan
Meet Your Friends From Japan! An Exhibit at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art~ ongoing until Sep 20 Amherst, MA, USA
Submissions Accepted for Lee and Low Books New Voices Award~ ongoing until Sep 30, USA
Portland Kidlitosphere Conference Report...
Here's a quick rundown of the kidlit bloggers conference featuring a few words of wisdom from each of sessions I attended:
- Bloggers Jackie Parker (Interactive Reader) and Colleen Mondor (Chasing Ray) gave a session on Making the Most of the Community: Blog Tour Events. Jackie and Colleen coordinate the Summer and Winter Blog Blast Tours, the only mixed author blog tours offered online. They're not in favor of the blog-tour-like-bookstore-tour events set up by publishers. (These publishers tours have the same author on blog after blog day after day answering similar question which can't be exciting for readers.) These bloggers and the other handful who participate in the Blasts strive to offer a good mix of authors that fit in with their varying interests. Their big tip for authors: give good interviews and do them on time.
Reviewers Colleen Mondor & Jackie Parker - Next up I attended a session with Pam Coughlin, aka Mother Reader in which she offered tips to Kick Your Blog Up a Notch. Pam gave a dozen suggestions for being a bigger (not necessarily a better) blogger. These include having a distinct voice, filling a particular niche, updating daily, commenting on other blogs, and doing self-promotion. Self-promotional efforts can be as simple as including your blog on your email signature, sending out occasional updates to your email list, and asking other bloggers to mention something super-special that's going on on your blog. (Note: Pam volunteered to coordinate the 3rd Kidlitosphere Conference next year in D.C.)
- In Mark Blevis' session, he updated the classic book starring lovable, furry old Grover to There's a Podcast at the End of this Book. Mark, who along with his wife Andrea Ross, produce the popular podcasts for Just One More Book!!, emphasized content, context and delivery in terms of what makes a strong podcast. Then he talked about lots of techie audio geek stuff which I didn't fully understand but wrote down some of: libsyn.com, Samson Zoom H2 recorder, Skype, podsafe music network, Podcasting Legal Guide. Truthfully, all the podcasting business really didn't seem as complicated as I imagined. And I spied Mark with recorder in hand throughout the weekend.
Podcaster Mark Blevis (with Sarah
Vowell & David Sedaris on screen - After lunch (I had a great prawn salad with mint citrus dressing and mangoes in the hotel restaurant--the other option was eating at the airport) conference co-coordinator Laini Taylor and blogger Jen Robinson (Jen Robinson's Book Page) discussed The Bridge Between Authors and Book Reviewers with much focus on protocol. Bloggers should offer review policies on their blogs and authors should read them and follow them, says Jen. When authors contact reviewers, they should personalize their request as much as possible. (In Jackie and Colleen's session they noted that reviewers can tell if an author doesn't read their blogs when you contact them. That's a no-no.) Authors should never pester reviewers--they have a lot of material and get through, the majority of which comes straight from publishers (which Jen prefers, as it's less pressure for her).
Conference coordinators
Laini Taylor & Jon McCullogh - Greg Pincus (Gotta Book) offered Promoting Your Book and Yourself on Facebook/MySpace and Other Social Networking Tools. He conducted his own mini self-promo experiment which he ran through with us. Your goal as an author/blogger, he says, is "setting yourself up for the happy accident." He suggests you have a FeedBurner (rss) account. You should give blog posts a strong title (for example the stronger, "Goal!--A Soccer Poem" vs. simply "Goal.") You should link to your blog from your facebook page. It's much harder to reach people if you're not trying to reach people, he says. Check out this wiki link for more tips.
- The last session I attended was with the fabulous author Sara Zarr on Balancing the Personal and Professional on Your Blog. Sara starting blogging around 1999/2000, and ended up deleting five years' worth of posts that were very personal once she got her book deal. An author's blog, she says, needs a voice--posts should represent the face you want to show to the world. It's an author's most controllable aspects of publicity, wholly the author's, not dictated by a publisher. Don't be shy about sharing good news and don't assume that readers are equally interested in your bad news (save that for trusted friends). Don't post anything you wouldn't want your editor or agent to read. In terms of controversial subjects like sex, religion and politics, don't censor yourself, but those types of post must really be thought out, really composed.
Author/blogger Sara Zarr After the conference dinner and raffle (for which no one at my table was privy to the fact that we needed raffle tickets and therefore had no possibility of winning prizes) the amazing and awesome
readergirlz threw a party to celebrate the amazing and awesome
Holly Cupala's promotion to official readergirlz Diva!
Thank you for sharing this with us.
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quite possibly to worst conference ever. who actually attends these things. i bet the place was just crawling w/ attractive women
This was so interesting to read! I wish I'd known about it so that I could've attended! My nephew has tried to explain Skype to me countless times but it still leaves me clueless. I used to put personal stuff on my writing blog but no longer. That stuff is still there -- I'm not going to backpedal on anything -- but I've learned to focus the writing blog on writing-only topics. I do have another personal blog, but even there, I still have learned the importance of censoring some things. Especially after my in-laws started to complain. :/
ok.very good!!
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This is great. I really appreciate your recap of all these good points. Very helpful to those of us that couldn't be there.