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From all of us on SCBWI Team Blog, thanks for joining us for the 2016 SCBWI Summer Conference.
We hope to see you in New York City, February 10-12, 2017, for #NY17SCBWI. The 2017 SCBWI Winter Conference will include full-day intensives for both writers & illustrators, a juried portfolio showcase with a grand prize, workshops, keynotes, the opportunity to network with top editors, art directors, agents and publishers, and so much more!
From left to right, your SCBWI Team Blog: Don Tate, Jolie Stekly, Martha Brockenbrough, Jaime Temairik, and Lee Wind
Thanks to Kim Turrisi and Linda Sue Park for the pictures!
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SCBWI Team Blog, left to right: Lee Wind, Jaime Temairik, Jolie Stekly, Don Tate, and Martha Brockenbrough
What a conference!
We hope you'll join us for all the inspiration, craft, business, opportunity and community of the 45th Annual SCBWI Summer Conference in Los Angeles, July 29 - August 1, 2016.
SCBWI Team Blog Lee, Jaime, Jolie, Martha and Don
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From left to right: Lee Wind, Martha Brockenbrough, Jolie Stekly, Jaime Temairik and Don Tate
From all of us at SCBWI Team Blog, thanks for following along!
We hope you'll join us for the 17th Annual SCBWI Winter Conference in New York City, February 12-14, 2016.
Featuring:
Full-day intensives for both writers and illustrators, The juried portfolio showcase with Grand Prize, The opportunity to network with top editors, agents and publishers Workshops, Keynotes and much more!
Craft. Business. Inspiration. Opportunity. Community. We're your SCBWI.
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And how does Mem know when a story is ready to go?
"...the hairs on your arms have to stand up."
Great stuff!
Mem will be on faculty at #LA15SCBWI, giving the opening keynote on Friday July 31st, "Inside the Writer's Head: The Writerly Thoughts That Lead To Success." She'll also be doing a breakout session (on both Saturday and Sunday) with Editor Allyn Johnston, "Let's Talk Picture Books... Q&As and some read aloud fun!"
Thank you for joining us here on the Official SCBWI Conference blog!
Lee Wind (top), and left to right: Jolie Stekly, Jaime Temairik, Martha Brockenbrough and Don Tate!
We hope you'll join Team Blog from July 31-Aug 3, 2015 in Los Angeles for all the craft, business, inspiration, opportunity and community the SCBWI Summer Conference offers!
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Emma Dryden has edited over a thousand books for children and young readers and many of her titles hit bestseller lists in USA Today, the New York Times, Washington Post, and Publishers Weekly. Books published under Emma’s guidance have received numerous awards and medals, including but not limited to, the Newbery Medal, Newbery Honor, and Caldecott Honor.
Jill goes into detail on what you can expect from attending her 3 hour plot intensive, and she'll also be teaching two general sessions during the main summer conference, "20 master plots: go on a story brainstorming binge" on Friday afternoon and "In the hot seat: embodying your character with tricks from the theater"on Sunday morning.
If you want to be there to learn from Jill yourself, you'll need to join us at the SCBWI Summer Conference, August 1-4, 2014 in Los Angeles. The conference is nearly sold-out, so go here to find out all the details and register!
Illustrate and Write On, Lee
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We had a great time blogging the 14th Annual SCBWI Winter Conference! We invite you to read the posts from the sessions you were fortunate enough to attend, get a glimpse of the ones you missed, and think about the moments and insights that are still resonating for you. Share your take in comments.
And we hope to see YOU in Los Angeles for the 42nd Annual SCBWI Summer Conference, August 2nd-August 5th, 2013.
Illustrate and Write On,
Lee, Jaime, Jolie, Martha and Suzanne SCBWI Team Blog
ps - thanks to Emily Jiang for the top photo! pps - illustrator students - there's a scholarship you can apply for to attend the summer conference. Find out more here. ppps - for published authors and/or illustrators who are interested in switching children's book genres, you can apply for a Martha Weston Grant to receive an all-expenses paid trip to the Summer Conference.
3 Comments on Until the next time... In Los Angeles! (August 2-5, 2013), last added: 2/4/2013
Ahhh. It's not as good as being there, but following the conference blog helps me feel less bereft. And maybe it convinces me that I *must* go next year, no matter what. (My goal: sell two more books. Go to both national conferences)
Thanks for the great blog! With no way to be at all the sessions at once, this blog meets a need to help me catch up with what I missed. Thanks blog team! You're the best!
Ginger, an agent at Curtis Brown LTD, will be taking the stage on Sunday January 29, 2012 as part of "The Current Market For Your Work: Four Agents' Views" Presentation at the Lucky 13th Annual SCBWI Winter Conference in New York City.
Their interview covers some excellent advice for conference-goers, strategies and tips on submissions, and the all-important 'how do you know when your work is ready to submit?'
And Ginger knows her stuff: her list includes Newbery Medalists, Newbery Honor and Printz Honor winners, Edgar and Lambda winners, a Sibert and Orbis Pictus winner and New York Times bestsellers!
There's even another SCBWI success story in their interview, and you can read it here!
And you can see Ginger yourself at #NY12SCBWI. Registration is open, and we hope to see you there!
Illustrate and Write On, Lee
2 Comments on #NY12SCBWI Pre-Conference Interview with Ginger Knowlton, last added: 12/14/2011
The 40th annual SCBWI Summer Conference has begun, and the first event was an optional first-timers attendee led by Jolie Stekly, a member of SCBWI Team Blog and a recipient of the organization's volunteer of the year award.
Jolie Stekly
Jolie, a conference vet, is helping newbies understand what to expect from the weekend.
She warmed us up by asking a variety of questions--Is this your first time here? Are you a writer? An illustrator? Both? Are you a man? (These events are known for being packed with women--just wait till you stand in a bathroom line for the first time.)
If you were here in this room right now, you might want earplugs. People are introducing themselves to each other and the noise is impressive!
A few tips from Jolie:
If you swap business cards, write a reminder on the back so you can connect the card to the person.
Chelsea Mooser of the SCBWI
If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. So don't feel as though you're in a competition with the people next to you. The SCBWI is a supportive tribe (with more than 22,000 members worldwide).
Passion, patience, and perseverance will see you through
If there's a book you want to buy, get it before the speaker does a keynote. Books do sell out.
With editors and agents, be respectful and interested in them as people (and don't slide manuscripts under the bathroom stall or ask to pitch). Good conversation topics are things the editors and agents said in their sessions, and the books they've worked on.
And here's an assignment useful for all participants: Write down three reasons you decided to attend this conference. (Achievable goals--editors and agents do not carry bags o' contracts to hand out at conferences.)
Jolie has walked all of us through the many events planned throughout the conference: the published attendee book sale, manuscript and portfolio consultations, the poolside dance party, the Golden Kite luncheon and more. (She also revealed that Judy Blume is here. THE Judy Blume.)
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The latest in our series of SCBWI TEAM BLOG interviews with Annual Winter Conference faculty is courtesy of Jolie Stekly who blogs at Cuppa Jolie. She interviewed Newbery Award-winning author Linda Sue Park.
Here's a bit from the interview with Linda Sue, which Jolie likened to a short writer's therapy session:
I've had the immense pleasure of hearing Linda Sue Park speak at a couple of SCBWI conferences. Not only that, but I've also had the opportunity to sit and talk with her, and let me tell you, the words that come out of her mouth are so great, so helpful, so smart that you won't want to dare miss them when she's gives her keynote presentation at the upcoming SCBWI Winter Conference.
Linda Sue Park is the award-winning author of many books for children, including A SINGLE SHARD which won the Newbery Medal in 2002. The list of awards Linda Sue has won is as long as my arm, and sure to keep growing. Linda Sue also serves on the SCBWI Board of Advisors.
Krista Marino is a Senior Editor at Delacorte Press (Random House Children's Books).
I'm peeking in on Day 3 (of 4) of her premium workshop Finding and Revising Your Protagonist's Voice in a Young Adult Novel.
The class was given pre-reading and movie watching assignments prior to the conference as well as homework during. Last night's homework: eavesdropping. (Now that's what I call homework!)
How about this one, coming from a teen overhead at a bookstore: "I think this is the supposed-to-be-a-good-book section."
The class is dishing on dialogue today.
Marino: A lot of people think voice means dialogue, but it doesn't.
Dialogue is more than just words. It has to feel real. But dialogue is not only what a character says, but it's also the character's internal monologue, which might be even more important.
Exercise: Krista reads an excerpt from Jennifer Donnelly's REVOLUTION (pre-reading homework). She then reads it again but removes the inner monologue to look at how it changes it. Without, the character becomes kind of one note.
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Korman uses a “lighten up” kind of approach to writing page-turners. Lighten up already!
He notes, kids are pretty sophisticated in ways you don’t expect them to be.
Korman thinks writers, like Seinfeld, are the ultimate did-you-ever-notice guys. If any of us look at our work, he bets there is, somewhere, a kernel of did-you-ever-notice in there.
An example from his own life: If a team gets sponsored, it’s always by someone humiliating. His hockey team was sponsored by “Pretty Polly Paint and Wallpaper.” How about that on your jersey?
Korman loves observation-fed writing.
During school visits he likes to ask kids, “What are the did-you-ever notices in your life.”
What the weirdest school bus driver you ever had?
What’s the worst food in your cafeteria?
What would a sixth graders comedy routine be like? This is the question Korman had to ask himself when writing MAXX COMEDY.
School visits are a way to subversively keep an eye on your audience, to see what’s funny to them. The failures during school visits are much more interesting than the ones that succeed.
“Not bad, pretty good” is about the best praise you’ll get from an eighth grader. Korman looks at eighth graders as New Yorkers; they’ve seen it all and done it all. They’re hard to impress. That’s our audience. Tough crowd!
Jolie Stekly offers the latest SCBWI TEAM BLOG Annual Summer Conference faculty interview on Cuppa Jolie--she interviewed Curtis Brown agent Ginger Clark, a first-time LA conference presenter.
Ginger will offer two sessions at the Summer Conference: HOW TO APPROACH AGENTS WITHOUT SCARING THEM OFF and BRING YOUR QUESTIONS: AN AGENT ANSWERS THEM ALL. She'll also participate in a panel LITERARY AGENTS VIEW THE MARKETPLACE.
Here a bit form Jolie's post:
How can it be that the SCBWI summer conference is only a few short weeks away? Is it that the weather has been so cold it doesn’t seem possible that the end up July could be that close? Okay, I suppose that only goes for those of us in the Pacific Northwest. But still! How excited are you to be there? Or…OR are you still deciding?There’s still time. You don’t want to miss the many fab agents attending and critiquing, like Ginger Clark.
As Jolie said, there's still time to register for the event--don't you want an agent to answer all your questions? Click here for registration info.
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I hope you've been enjoying our SCBWI TEAM BLOG pre-conference interviews--and they're getting you excited about our upcoming event! Our latest Summer Conference faculty interviewee is editor extraordinaire (and SCBWI board member) Arthur Levine who chatted with Jolie Stekly. Check out the full interview on Cuppa Jolie.
Arthur will be presenting Strong Emotions on the Page: A Master Class at the SCBWI LA event. Here's a bit from Jolie's interview:
"It was such a pleasure for me to interview one of my favorite people in the children's book world: Arthur Levine.
Arthur A. Levine is a Vice President at Scholastic Inc. and the Editorial Director of Arthur A. Levine Books, a literary, hardcover imprint of Scholastic. He is also an author and has a new book coming out (keep reading to find out more about it) in Spring 2011.
Let's jump right in..."
You can meet Arthur Levine in person (along with a ton of other terrific presenters) at the Annual Summer Conference in Los Angeles.
If Cheryl Klein is a reflection of what you will learn from one of Mr. Levine's workshops...it's a must for those of you who are lucky enough to attend LA.
Jaime interviewed the always awesome Allyn Johnston, Vice President & Publisher of Beach Lane Books, who will be offering three breakout sessions on THE REAL DEAL ABOUT PICTURE BOOKS. Click here to read the interview with Allyn.
And be sure to tune in *RIGHT HERE* starting Friday, for exclusive live Winter Conference coverage by our crack team of bloggers, Jaime, Jolie, Lee, Suzanne and Alice!
I'm back in the Nati, the humid humid Nati, and still coming down from the from the fantastic SCBWI Summer Conference in LA. If you weren't there I hope you followed the event on our equally fantastic Official SCBWI Conference Blog.
TEAM BLOG's posts, photos and video were terrific (not to mention fast and furious) and I think we offered a good taste of the conference and shared some useful information for those who weren't there as well as for attendees who could only attend one session at a time. (We could attend 6, and a few times we attended 9 or 10.) If you haven't visited the Conference Blog, click here to check it out.
And below are a few more of my photos from the Blue Moon Ball on Saturday night. (I posted some on the conference blog after the event.) There were drink tickets. There were quesadillas. There was dancing. And, of course, there were outfits.
This year they're blue butterflies; last year they were literary lady bugs.
This conference-goer's cow stopped jumping over the moon to pose for a picture.
These Royals fans were happy about the party theme.
This conference-goer got wiggy with it and enjoyed the Mexican food buffet.
Jay Asher is without mermaids but still ready to disco as he poses with Linda Sue Park.
I'm not sure if she's a superhero or a cheerleader who mistook her pom-pom for head gear.Either way I like this outfit.
Great meeting you at the greatest conference to date. Old friends. New friends. And agents and editors on fire. I am reading team blog's blog and loving it.
After Kathleen Duey's inspirational farewell keynote address, conference goers enjoyed the Farewell & Autography Party where they were able to meet and greet the authors and get their autographs! Fresh lemonade, pretzels, and candy treats were provided for everyone as they headed out the door and back to their homes.
It was clear that close friendships had blossomed between conference goers over the past four days and that everyone - from aspiring newbie writers to published veteran authors - were inspired to rush home and WRITE WRITE WRITE.
The room was full of camaraderie and everyone enjoyed the celebration at the farewell shindig. Tonight, the faculty will meet for a final celebratory wrap-up party.
The entire SCBWI TEAM BLOG - Alice Pope, Jolie Stekly, Jaime Temairik, Lee Wind, Paula Yoo, and Suzanne Young - would like to thank SCBWI for giving us this opportunity to share the highlights of the 2009 national conference with everyone. We had a blast attending all these panels - our one regret was that we wish YOU were there! :) If you would like to find out more about SCBWI and join as a member, please go here for more info: http://scbwi.org
Remember, we are an interactive forum, so please comment away on our blogs. We look forward to the dialogue between SCBWI members about this year's conference.
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10 Comments on Farewell and Autograph Party, last added: 8/12/2009
Alice Pope, Jolie Stekly, Jaime Temairik, Lee Wind, Paula Yoo, and Suzanne Young - You've done a great service for those of us who couldn't be there. Thanks for all your excellent blogging.
Hi from New Zealand, I've been following the SCBWI team blog the whole weekend and you guys did an amazing job...I laughed, I teared up, I was inspired...I was jealous...I am in awe... In 37 days the National Children's Writers and Illustrators conference begins here for New Zealand. It is our first conference in 16 years and My team and I have been planning it for 18 months...I can't thank you enough for the inspiration you have been for me and my team and the wider community of writers and illustrtors in this country.
Kia Kaha..ake ake ake... Be strong for ever and ever.
Maureen Convenor Spinning Gold Conference NZ Childrens writers and Illustrators.
I'm still on a high from all the wonderful workshops and speeches I heard at the SCBWI conference. This was my second time around and it was as enjoyable as the first. Learned so much about the writing process. Thanks.
Hi. Wow. Thank everyone for the kind comments. We really appreciate it. I've also noticed some comment dialogue going on in the other blogs as well - yay! If you would like to keep up with SCBWI post-conference information, please follow twitter.com/scbwi as well as our individual blogs listed below:
Alice Pope: http://cwim.blogspot.com/ Paula Yoo: http://paulayoo.com Lee Wind: http://www.leewind.org/ Jolie Stekly: http://cuppajolie.blogspot.com/ Suzanne Young: http://www.suzanne-young.blogspot.com/ Jaime Temairik: http://www.cocoastomp.blogspot.com/
We've all started posting post-con photos and wrap-up blogs at our sites. I myself have posted some blogs and photo galleries today and will continue to post some wrap-up conference blogs throughout this week. We also all blog regularly re: SCBWI events as well as blogs on the craft of writing for children/teens and industry/publishing advice, so keep in touch with SCBWI TEAM BLOG throughout the year!
We're counting down to the Summer Conference ... only four more days! More exclusive interviews to come this week (including one right here), and then our conference blog-o-rama begins.
We're counting down to the Summer Conference ... only four more days! More exclusive interviews to come this week, and then our conference blog-o-rama begins.
0 Comments on Exclusive TEAM BLOG Interview with Karen Cushman as of 8/3/2009 1:11:00 PM
I'm going to do triple duty this week. I'm going to CELEBRATE!, give some revision tips for the SUMMER REVISION SMACKDOWN with Holly Cupala and Jolie Stekly, and add something about First Drafts (Vijaya Bodach, I hope you are humming along.)
First up, a big shout out for my author friend Conrad Wessehoeft. Congrats to him and yay! for his fab agent Erin Murphy. Conrad and I have been in the same critique group for 11 years (yes), and this is a book you will will want to watch for. Persistence is everything, folks. Really.
Here's the announcement: World rights to Conrad Wesselhoeft's YA debut ADIOS, NIRVANA, about a teenaged poet-musician who survives the first anniversary of his twin brother's death with the help of a dying blind man, the best group of thicks a guy could have, a demanding school principal who wants him to play the "pussiest song in the world" at graduation, and one very special guitar, for publication in fall 2010, to Kate O'Sullivan at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children's, at auction.
Here is my wonderful group:
From left to right. Back row: Louise Spiegler, me, Conrad Wesselhoeft. Front row: Susan Greenway, Cathy Benson, Megan Bilder.
(Note: this is not my only wonderful group. I'm blessed beyond measure when it comes to the writing journey.)
Now for all the Smackdown folks. You never finish books. You only abandon them. I always feel like a worn-out, wrung-out dishrag when I'm finished with a revision draft.
As promised, here are some tips to handle flaw types.
Typos- It's a good idea to keep a list of your most likely typos so that you can keep an eye out for them.
Stuff that doesn't make sense: You are working too fast. Slow down and give yourself extra time to think as you move forward.
Deleted stuff: Never really delete anything. I keep an extra file called the dump. Any time I delete, that bit goes into the dump and occasionally I do go dumpster diving.
Stuff I've got to move is orange. I use symbols to make moves, like "o, p. 22" and on page 22 you will find the 'o'. That is the destination.
Stuff that is awkward or needs better wording is yellow. It's called a thesaurus, folks. Use it and often.
Stuff that I need to add to is green. If it is short, I just write the addition on the manuscript. If it is longer, I often keep some lined paper nearby and freehand a needed paragraph and staple it to the page.
I hope one of these tips helps you.
Now for the first drafters, what happens when you are stuck? Yes, sometimes a draft grinds to a halt. This is the most disheartening thing ever. I've found a few things that can help this. You can try rereading the manuscript from the beginning. Print it all out and don't take a pen. Just read. This can jump start you. Another thing to try is to skip ahead. Jump to a section where you are sure what to do and get to writing. Here's another thing to try. Pull out the Hero's Journey checklist and start marking off your story points. Is something missing? The last one is stick the manuscript in a drawer for a month. Let you unconscious mind work the problem out. It will sometimes. Hope this get you out of any miry patches.
This week's playlist hit: Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey singing "When You Believe". I hope it inspires you to keep going forward whatever stage you are at.
No doodles this week, hopefully my computer will come back someday and my tech stuff will be set right.
So here is your quote for the week. Have faith, folks.
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog. Corrie Ten Boom
4 Comments on Novel Writing: Celebration, Revision, and First Drafts, last added: 6/20/2009
Oh, Molly, wonderful news about Conrad's book! I know you'll remind me again when it's out. Things are humming along ... but not fast enough.
Anonymous said, on 6/15/2009 10:27:00 PM
You guys all look great! Conrad-I couldn't be happier for you. You so deserve this. I've tried to e-mail you congratulations but, I seem to have lost your e-mail--Can't wait to read your book. Here's to rave reviews! Shelley S. P.S Molly-love the dumpster idea!
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1 Comments on Gordon Korman: The Page-Turner Principle, last added: 7/30/2010
Ahhh. It's not as good as being there, but following the conference blog helps me feel less bereft. And maybe it convinces me that I *must* go next year, no matter what. (My goal: sell two more books. Go to both national conferences)
Thanks for the great blog! With no way to be at all the sessions at once, this blog meets a need to help me catch up with what I missed. Thanks blog team! You're the best!
Thank you for all your great work! You guys are amazing :)