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LILA has taken over...
Lisa: How much would you pay to be at SCBWI LA right now?
Laura: *Logs into bank account and cries a little bit* $25. But I think that’s part of the problem.
Lisa: Maybe we should open up some sort of business on the side like Shelli. I mean, she’s at the conference right now.
Laura: YES. I wonder if anyone would pay for celebrity-inspired poetry. I could start that back up.
Lisa: *searches Craigslist* What are you doing next Saturday? There’s a want-ad for a couple face painters for a kids’ birthday party. I can paint a mean unicorn.
Laura: I’m actually busy. Cash for Gold is at the downtown Marriot. I have a few broken necklaces and my class ring.
Lisa: Well, after the birthday party I’ll probably have some writer friends over. I’m gonna host a few SCBWI-inspired workshops here.
Laura: When were you planning on telling me?
Lisa: Um…I mean…I don’t know…I just figured you’d be busy.
Laura: Yeah, well, I am. I mean, Cash for Gold is a popular event. Have fun “honing your craft.”
Lisa: What?
Laura: It’s just…that’s what the SCBWI Conference description says. You’ll hone your craft and take your writing to the next level. Is that what you’re going to be doing in your living room?
Lisa: Probably. I’ll have some snacks too.
What will you be doing while instead of going to LA?
Book Update: Bright is backin hadns of Awesome Agent. Cross your fingers! I feel its done - I rewrote beginning and ending in addition to edits _ added material resulting in an additional 12,000 words. Now tween book is at 63,000
It is 10 pm (LA time) and our day really just ended.
Went for breakfast this morning with Lindsey Leavitt, Katie Anderson, Sarah Francis Hardy, and Kimberly Derting. (SFH had the best egg pizza - yum! and LL had a tower of sticky buns!! Yum yum! Me? the healthy oatmeal boring. Tomorrow I am going all out :)
The morning started off with Sherman Alexie, author of ...Diary of Part Time Indian...
he was so funny. But under all the humor was a guy who turned his painful childhood into a dream existence. A kid with brain damage, bad vision, poor, lived on an Indian reservation. A kid who found a way to escape from his hard childhood with books.
Here are some of my "Ah ha" moments (for more detail you can go to scbwi's blog.)
"when you give a kid a book he naturally identifies with than you expect him to connect with it. But when you give a kid a book that is outside his normal comfort zone, and he finds a way to connect with it - that is when you begin changing the world."
"The power of books is amazing. They find a way yo the people that need them the most. Whether its 1 person or 100,000. Every book has the destiny to change at least one person."
"As a children's author - you must accept responsibility of writing for a young audience; prepare to be lonely because it is hard work, and know when you write it - it will impact people."
Next was David Weisner (Flotsam)
"He talked about the films and books that impacted his illustrations and writing. He showed a journey of how he got to Flotsam. How all of his books led up to that one."
"Writing is a personal journey. We don't write with a certain kid in mind. We write from our kid. From our hearts, experiences, and memory. Kids just happen to be touched by them."
"Think about all the stuff that you thought was cool when you were a kid. There is a story in each thing that stood out to you."
Ingrid Law - Savvy
Write with creativity and courage
Read the book "Spunk and bite"
Push voice further than you thought possible.
exercise: write a crazy sentence - then ask questions. This is how Savvy started - one crazy sentence and a bunch of questions.
Trust your instincts, be wild and playful, have a beginner's mind, be courageous, take risks, and don't be afraid to break the rules - you can always rein them in
pretend you are always a tourist and see things with a new eye.
be sure to look up when you walk around so you can observe the nuances of life
Sarah Davies - Greenhouse Literary (love her!!!)
world rights - all languages in world
world english rights - english language anywhere in world
hard to see Us fiction in UK. less space for YA market
Ways to spread international buzz:
Scouts - represent foreign publishers
Publishers marketplace - sign up and watch foreign right sales
understand foreign market
Pub weekly features on international authors
Bologna Frankfurt conferences/book fairs
Advice for global sales
consider world when you write
have market in mind
middle grade needs strong sales
YA fiction with unique voice and premise
Audio Books
1) primary - when they exploit own rights
2) secondary - sells rights to someone else
what helps international sales
global appeal
unique voice
Non fiction and PB do not sell as well as MG/YA
unusually ideas
awards/sales figures
love young boy fiction
concepts and setting that transcends cultures
see you tomorrow!
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LILA has taken over...
Wishing I were there :)
no, actually, we have company this weekend, so I won't be missing it too much (okay, that's kind of a lie).
We're out in Colorado, right now (nice, yes). BUT--this weekend (as in tomorrow), we will start our 22 hour drive back to Mississippi. Yes. 22 HOURS. With our children. In a minivan.
Pray for my soul.
sf
*waves from her hotel in LA* :D
@Hardygirl--I'm in Colorado too. Good luck w/ the 22 hour drive--you're braver than I am.
LiLa--hilarious! You make me want to hone my craft too. :)
I will be writing. Or at least I'd better be writing. I NEED the time to work on some stuff, which is why I am not letting myself go.
I am such a meanie.
Shelley
This weekend I will finally finish this last round of revisions!!
Yes!
Hope everyone at the conference (and those sitting home alone guzzling Prosecco and eating Twizzlers) has a good weekend, too. ;)
Wishing I was there too!
And enjoying family time :)
I'm not a member of SCBWI...but I've been a member of RWA for 15 years or so. I'm thinking I need to do both, I guess? I still write both, but mostly middle grade, but the problem is, there's no local chapter of SCBWI. RWA has a local chapter that meets monthly...are there SOME local SCBWI chapters, just not Nashville?
Hmm. Not sure. Probably drinking heavily. Or WriteOnCon. Or both. When is it again?
Today's guest blogger is Rose Cooper!
moving, and cursing the gods who made moving so damn difficult.
LOL! Us authors who write for adults miss out on all the fun!! (and yes, I could write crime or romance and still catch some fun, but I don't do that either... kinda sucks).
I'll be at home drinking champagne and playing on my new computer and waiting for the inevitably enviable blog posts next week!
You girls are hilarious! I wish I lived close.
I SO BAD wish I was in LA! But maybe not . . . YOU are all not there either!
What am I doing? Oh, I got this deadline where I gotta write, like, um, 5,000 words a day until next Friday when I turn in my next book to my editor. I started three weeks ago. I probably should get off blogger then . . . . see ya!
Languishing on the couch? Yeah, that sounds good.
Editing for clients--I am so, so bummed not to be going. :-(
WriteOnCon will have to make up for missing it!!
I'll be working on two WIPs that have been collecting dust. And exercising. Haven't been doing enough og that lately.
Stephen Tremp
I'm trying to contain my jealousy. So far it's not going very well, but I took my frustration out on the weeds in my garden, so that's good.
Tomorrow we leave for vacation. that will help much.
人不能像動物一樣活著，而應該追求知識和美德............................................................