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Hope you are working on creating a logo for our bags.  Winning will get you into the Faculty Dinner.

Talk tomorrow,

Kathy

Only 10 days left to get the “Early Bird” pricing for the June 3-5, 2011 New Jersey SCBWI Conference being held in Princeton, NJ.

http://www.newjerseyscbwi.com/events/110604%20conference.shtml 

You may pay by using PayPal.  Just go to www.paypal.com. Figure up your total, add $10 and send it to [email protected]. PayPal does not charge the sender a fee for using their service.  You will still need to snail mail your registration or if you have a scanner, you can scan and e-mail.  
 
FIRST TIMERS:  We have a special session for you to get the most out of your conference experience. Sign up on the registration form near the bottom of the first page.  

BOOKFAIR: If you are a published author and plan to participate in the book signing, you need to let Kelly [email protected] know what books need to be ordered.  We are having a bookstore in Princeton sell the books. This is another reason to sign up early.  We are planning to do local promotion this year, so if you register late, you may miss this important opportunity.
 
ILLUSTRATORS:  We are having our Fourth Annual Logo Contest.  The winner will be recognized, receive an award at the June Conference and will have their artistic logo with their name appear printed on the tote bags given to the faculty.  The top three winners will be invited to the Faculty Dinner on Saturday night. Here is how you can enter:
 
Tote Bag Logo will need to be 4″ wide by 6″ high and submitted at 300 dpi resolution. 
 
Other possible sizes for additional give-a-ways:
6″ wide X 2″ high
3″ wide X 4″ high
5″ wide X 3″ high
4″ wide X 6″ high
 
There isn’t any shadowing in logo art, so it must be solid one color art.  Print color white.  If you can use Photoshop, send the art with a transparent background.  If not, we will take out the background. The picture on the left is this year’s faculty bag. You can submit more than one design, so even if you don’t get chosen for the tote bag you may get your work printed on one of the other size items above.  

Please e-mail to: [email protected] by April 8, 2011. Make sure you use your name in the file names you submit.  And put ” 2011 Logo Contest” in the Subject area.   

See Last Year’s Winner

Click for Runners-ups

Other Submissions

Illustrators’ Exhibit: 

Actress/author Meg Tilly is coming to Book Bites for Kids today to talk about her new YA novel, Porcupine.The show is LIVE on blogtalkradio.com at 2:00 central time this afternoon.

Actress/Author Meg Tilly from her film, The Big Chill

You may remember Meg Tilly from such films as The Big Chill, and Agnes of God, but you might not know that she’s also an author - with two books for adults and now an impressive first YA novel.

Porcupine is the story of twelve-year-old tomboy Jack Cooper (or Jacqueline, as her mother insists on calling her).

When her father is killed by “friendly fire” in Afghanistan, Jack “watches as her mother crumbles under sorrow and depression. Jack and her younger sister and brother, Tessa and Simon, end up across the country, living on a run-down farm in a small town on the Prairies with a great grandmother they didn’t know existed.”

Learn more about Porcupine, today, October 30th, when Meg Tilly guests on Book Bites for Kids at 2:00 central time.

Listen to the show at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bookbitesforkids or call in and ask a question or make a comment at 1-646-716-9239.