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Ben Rosenthal is a senior editor at Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Children’s Books. He acquires middle grade and YA fiction but also loves fresh and surprising nonfiction. At Harper, he has worked with such authors as Patrick Carman, Mindy McGinnis, and Jordana Frankel. Before arriving at KT Books in 2014, Ben spent seven years at Enslow Publishers, where he edited more than 150 nonfiction and middle grade fiction titles and created a teen fiction imprint, Scarlet Voyage. Raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, he now lives in New Jersey with his wife.
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| Ben Rosenthal |
Ben shares a ton of material (and a great handout!)
Some highlights:
The trend of Nonfiction moving away from big bulky books to smaller chunks, trade books that teachers and librarians will want to use, is a "tremendous opportunity."
He cautions us to not over-value information over narrative: Use back matter for essential information. Make bulk of it about the story. "Books that are not just facts and figures, but that tell a story."
Citing the maxim that the three most important things about real estate are location, location and location, Ben says that for Nonfiction it should be "Narrative, narrative, narrative."
To illustrate the power of re-constructing scenes and creating a compelling narrative, Ben reads us a few excerpts, including from
"The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi" by Neal Bascomb
and "Bomb: The Race to Build - And Steal - The World's Most Dangerous Weapon" by Steve Sheinkin
It's a talk packed with great information, opportunities he sees for NF writers, and even exercises as homework!
Here's one that popped:
Do at least one piece of real-world research for your nonfiction work. If you don't have a topic, consider beginning with real-world exploration of something that interests you."
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| Beverly Horowitz |
Beverly Horowitz is Vice President and Publisher of Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books. She began her career in the editorial department of Little, Brown and has held positions as publicity/promotion director at Bradbury Press and Academic Marketing and School and Library marketing director at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Beverly has never stopped being an editor. She works with Judy Blume, Louis Sachar, E. Lockhart, Laura Hillenbrand, Caroline B. Cooney, Wes Moore, and many other beloved and debut authors. Throughout her career, she has been an advocate of First Amendment rights and has fought against censorship.
In her answers and introduction Beverly talks about so much, including:
How "Frozen" merchandizing books (so many different kinds of books) have shown that "a phenomenon can filter down from one kind of platform to another." It tells us all that there are wider audiences for books than we might have thought.
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| just a few of the many "Frozen" books |
How "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart crossed over from teen to also get adult readers.
How if your book is made into a movie, it gets a wider audience of non-readers to your book. (Like James Dashner's "The Maze Runner.")
"We want to bring people back to the book."
How the family read - adults and kids reading together - is a growing trend. (Like their release of Laura Hillenbrand's "Unbroken.")
She also cites the roll of nostalgia in the market, the success of Diane Muldrow's "Everything I Needed To Know I Learned From A Little Golden Book."
And the power of a title that lets audience know exactly what they're going to get.
She ends with telling the rapt audience,
"What we want is what you want. To sell as many of your books in as many formats as possible."
During the Editors Panel, Vice President and Publisher of Delacorte Press Beverly Horowitz shared about the impact George Nicholson had on our industry, including:
The innovation of paperback books for children (when he was at Dell Publishing in the 1960s.) And Beverly tells us that at the time, nay-sayers complained that paperback books would "ruin" the children's book industry.*
Clearly, they didn't. They sold more books!
Across his career, he was an editor, publisher and literary agent. George Nicholson passed away earlier this week.
Learn more about George's career in
this obituary in Publishers Weekly.
*Beverly also pointed out that perhaps, there may be a parallel to what people are saying about e-books today...
Children's Books 2015: Report From The Front Lines gets underway with, left to right:
Stephanie Owens Lurie, Associate Publisher, Disney-Hyperion
Laura Godwin, Vice President and Publisher, Henry Holt Books for Young Readers
Beverly Horowitz, Vice President and Publisher, Delacorte Press
and
Justin Chanda, Vice President and Publisher, S&S Books for Young Readers
The long view:
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| Lin introduces the panel! |
Close-ups from right before the panel began...
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| Stephanie Lurie (left) and Laura Godwin (right) |
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| Beverly Horowitz (left) and Justin Chanda (right) |
Writes: YA novels, playright
"This is my first SCBWI conference. My daughter, author Kelly Starling Lyons, encouraged me to attend."
It's a face-freezing cold kind of day in New York City, but that's not keeping anyone from basking in the warmth of this thrilling event, the 16th of its kind in the Big Apple.
We're looking forward to keynotes by Newbery Medal winner Kwame Alexander; bestsellers James Dasher, Anthony Horowitz, and Kami Garcia; and picture book revolutionaries Herve Tullet and Laura Vaccaro Seeger, as well as breakout sessions by top editors, agents, and art directors.
SCBWI Co-Founder Steve Mooser welcomed a record number of attendees:
"It's no mystery why you did make the decision to come. A conference on an iPad is never the same as in person. What makes the difference here are the friendships you make, the personal connections, some of which last a lifetime."
Lin Oliver reminded us that we're here to practice our work, to network, and to make friends. She asked us to turn to the person on the right and get acquainted—and the volume in the room went to 11.
There are 1,133 people at this conference, coming from 47 states in the U.S., and 16 additional countries, including Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Hong Kong, Iceland, Israel, Japan, Portugal, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, and the U.K.
No one is here from Kansas, Wyoming, Oklahoma.
"This is the 12th year that we've had no one from North Dakota here, so I propose a constitutional amendment to eliminate North Dakota from the union," Lin said.
The best represented state is New York, followed by California and Massachusetts. She gave New Jersey a break on account of their bridge-closing governor (zing!).
Thirty-two percent of attendees are published authors and illustrators, and more than 375 illustrators are here—a new record. There is also a clown, a bartender, and a writer-dentist. (A clown, a bartender, and a writer-dentist walk into a conference...)
And away we go!
There are 375 illustrators in the house! The largest numbers of illustrators at this conference.
The crowd takes their seats, as the 2015 SCBWI Winter Conference is about to begin!
The 2015 SCBWI Winter Conference starts tomorrow with a full day of intensives, and then on to the weekend's main two days! Having been to this rodeo before (warning - city boy using cowboy language!) here's a handful of tips:
1. When you meet Kwame Alexander, you might want to congratulate him on winning the Newbery Award for his novel in poems, THE CROSSOVER. It just happened on Monday of this week, and it's a pretty big deal. Congratulations, Kwame!
2. Wear your conference nametag all the time. It's how you'll know other attendees are part of the same tribe you are - even if you're getting pizza in the Grand Central Station food court! And when you meet that person in line ahead of you for pizza, and they're wearing their conference nametag (because they read this, too), be extra-gracious. Share about you and what you're working on. Ask questions about them. They might be an agent. They might be a future Newbery- or Caldecott-winner themselves. Most exciting? They might be a future friend.
3. Even if you don't have a twitter handle yourself, check out the #NY15SCBWI feed. You can do that by the twitter-searching on that hashtag
here:
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23NY15SCBWI&src=tyahIt's like one of those rolling tickers of stock numbers, but all about things kid lit and conference. There will be great quotes and information tid-bits, and even photos to give you a sense of being there. (And if you are at the conference, it's fun to contribute to! Just add the #NY15SCBWI to your tweets.)
4. Keep another tab open for updates on
The Official SCBWI Conference Blog (here!) That's where myself, Martha Brockenbrough, Jolie Stekly, Jaime Temairik and Don Tate (who'll be joining Team Blog for this conference) will be posting live updates throughout the conference Saturday and Sunday. While not a
transcript, it's a real taste of the conference keynotes and sessions.
5. Be Social. Go to the Gala on Saturday night from 6:15pm - 8pm. And then, check out one of the four socials that run from 8pm - 9pm:
First Time Attendees
Illustrator's Social
International Social
LGBTQ Chat
Most of all have
fun, stay open to
inspiration and
opportunity, learn more about the
business and
craft of writing and illustrating for children and teens, and revel in being with your
community!
Illustrate and Write -- and Conference -- On!Lee
(Cross-posted at SCBWI: The blog.)
Dear conference goers, everyone.
Don Tate here. My clothes are packed. My manuscripts are safely tucked away. My post cards are ready to be shared and traded for yours. I am now ready for the big SCBWI conference in NYC! Aren't you?
I arrive today (Thursday), early enough to attend the Writers' Intensive: World Building on Friday. Yes, I'm putting on my writers hat for this conference. But I'm also looking forward to meeting some illustrator peeps, too. On Saturday and Sunday, I will cover the event live in real time, here on this blog. Be sure to tune in. I look forward to meeting everyone. THINK BIG!
Cheers!
Don
Ben Rosenthal is a senior editor at Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Children’s Books. He acquires middle grade and YA fiction but also loves fresh and surprising nonfiction.
I connected with Ben to find out more about his two breakout sessions at the Winter Conference, one on "Creating Nonfiction" and the other on "Thrillers and Mysteries." It was a great discussion, covering the lessons to be learned from fiction to nonfiction and vice-versa, the lines between MG, YA and Adult, and much more!
If you'd like to attend Ben's sessions and be part of all the craft, opportunity, inspiration, business and community of SCBWI's Winter Conference, we hope you'll join us in New York City, February 6-8, 2015.
You can find out all the details and register here.Illustrate and Write On,Lee
Check out this very informative post, The Benefits of A Writers' Roundtable, by author and team blog member Martha Brockenbrough. In it, Martha tells us about the Writers Roundtable Intensive at the upcoming 2015 SCBWI Winter Conference in New York City, February 6-8.
In addition to sharing what happened to her four years ago at the roundtable, Martha is now the intensive's moderator, and shares her thoughts on how to maximize this remarkable opportunity.
Illustrate and Write On,Lee
Jessica Dandino Garrison is senior editor at Dial Books for Young Readers and edits picture books, middle grade and young adult novels.
In our interview, we discuss the upcoming 2015 SCBWI Winter conference, her take on writers trying to do it all, got the scoop on her rule-breaking picture book breakout sessions, and learned more about the process of selecting an illustrator for a picture book manuscript. She even shares some of her favorite childhood books!
If you'd like to attend Jessica's session and be part of all the craft, opportunity, inspiration, business and community of SCBWI's Winter Conference, we hope you'll join us in New York City, February 6-8, 2015.
You can find out all the details and register here.
Illustrate and Write On,Lee
Stephanie Lurie is the associate publisher of Disney-Hyperion, an imprint that publishes approximately eighty titles a year, for preschoolers through young adults. Stephanie manages a team of eighteen people and also edits picture books and novels.
In our interview, I asked Stephanie to tell us what she's most looking forward to hearing from her fellow panelists on the Saturday morning Keynote Editors' panel, "Children's Books 2015: Report from the Front Lines." Her fellow panlists will be Justin Chanda (Simon & Schuster), Laura Godwin (Henry Holt) and Beverly Horowitz (Delacorte)!
We also discussed writers writing for more than one age category, diversity as a reflection of modern life, and Stephanie shared some surprising advice. (We even find out her favorite ice cream flavor!)
Check out
the full interview here.
And to find out more about the upcoming SCBWI Winter Conference in New York City, February 6-8, 2015,
you can find out all the details and register here.Illustrate and Write On,Lee
SCBWI's spectacular 16th Annual winter conference, held February 6-8, 2015 in New York has an amazing line up of keynote speakers, panels, breakout sessions and intensive workshops.
Here's the faculty,
And here's the conference schedule.
Note: The Conference promises to sell out as it has in the past several years.So set your calendars and cell phone alarms to register online at
http://www.scbwi.org/ Tuesday October 7 at 10am pacific time!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Illustrate and Write On,Lee
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