As a co-founder of Children’s Writers of the Hudson Valley, I’m thrilled to share news of our First Impressions: A First Page and Query Event happening on November 15, 2014 at St. James Church in Hyde Park, NY!
Participants can submit either a first page or a query letter, and will receive feedback from our two panelists:
Susan Kochan is an Associate Editorial Director of Putnam Children’s at Penguin Group. She has been with Putnam for twenty years after a short-lived career as an elementary teacher. She acquires fiction and nonfiction from young picture books through middle-grade novels. She looks for lively picture books that have a perfect combination of humor and heart and chapter book and middle grade characters who kids can’t help but want to befriend.
She is the editor of Betty G. Birney’s Humphrey and Stephanie Greene’s Princess Posey series, as well as the I Wanna books by Karen Kaufman Orloff, The Three Ninja Pigs and Ninja Red Riding Hood by Corey Rosen Schwartz, The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School and Loose on the Fire Truck by Laura Murray.
Jennie Dunham (AAR and SCBWI member) has been a literary agent in New York City since 1992. In August 2000 she founded Dunham Literary, Inc. Her clients have been New York Times bestsellers and have won awards such as Boston Globe Horn Book Honor, New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year, the Charlotte Zolotow Award, and International Reading Association Award. Her agency represents children’s books for all ages from novelty and picture book through middle grade and young adult as well as literary fiction and non-fiction for adults.
Registration can be found here, and you can also sign up for event updates through our newsletter.