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Carmela Martino and 5 other authors,
on 5/3/2013
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This will be a short post because I'm busy preparing to attend the SCBWI
Wild, Wild Midwest Conference. In fact, I've written this post in advance and scheduled it to publish right about the time I'll be hitting the road. :-)
For those of you unfamiliar with
SCBWI, it stands for the
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, the premier organization for those interested in writing and/or illustrating for children. SCBWI holds
two national conventions every year., The summer conference, held in Los Angeles, will be
Aug. 2-5 this year, and the winter conference, held in New York, will be Feb. 21-23, 2014. (
Click here to see photos from last year's winter conference.) I've never been able to attend either of these events, except virtually, via the
official SCBWI conference blog, so I'm especially excited to participate in this weekend's Midwest conference. I'm hoping it will be the first of many.
Speaking of SCBWI, congratulations to all the winners of the SCBWI Crystal Kite Member Choice awards, which were announced this week. If you're not familiar with this award, you can see the list of winners
on the SCBWI website and read about how they were chosen. And for more children's publishing news, be sure to check out
the official SCBWI blog.
In other good news, I've found a new home for the
Girls Write! summer camps I taught at the Hinsdale Center for the Arts for nine years. (Sadly,
HCA closed last year due to lack of funding.) The camps will now be held at the
Mayslake Peabody Estate in Oak Brook, Illinois. If you know any budding girl writers who live in the area, please help spread the word. The camp for girls entering grades 4-5 will meet June 24-June 28, 9:30 am–noon and for those entering grades 6-8 will meet July 15-July 19, 9:30 am–noon. For details, see the right sidebar
on this page of my website.
Finally, don't forget: there's still time to enter our blogiversary giveaway for a chance to win one of four $25 gift cards to Anderson's Bookshops.
See this post for details.
After you've entered, hop on over to
Elizabeth Steinglass's blog for this week's Poetry Friday round-up.
Happy writing!
Carmela
Don’t forget to cast your vote in this year’s SCBWI Crystal Kite Member Choice Awards! Voting ends March 15.
Here are the finalists for the California/Hawaii division:
• Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan ( HarperCollins Children’s Books)
• Tina Nichols Coury, Hanging Off Jefferson’s Nose: Growing Up On Mount Rushmore (Dial Books For Young Readers, Penguin Young Readers Group)
• Katherine Longshore, Gilt (Viking Children’s Books, Penguin Young Readers Group)
• Ginger Wadsworth, First Girl Scout, the Life of Juliette Gordon Low (Clarion)
• Melissa Wiley, The Prairie Thief (Margaret K. McElderry Books, Simon & Schuster)
You can see the other division finalists here. One Crystal Kite winner will be chosen for each division.
From the SCBWI website:
To cast a vote, go to your Member Home page, click on “See what’s going on in your region,” then on the Crystal Kites tab. The list of the finalists listed below will be there and all you have to do to vote is click the button next to the desired title for your region. [Note: To get to the voting buttons, you have to scroll all the way down to the bottom of the finalist list.]
Please remember there is no campaigning of any kind for individual titles but you are encouraged to promote the awards in general using all social media! This includes but is not limited to blogging, tweeting or social networking of any kind.
Anyone participating in an individual voting campaign (promoting a specific title) will be disqualified. This is to ensure the votes are based purely on personal opinion.
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Christine Brower-Cohen sent me this good news and nice note today. I thought I would share it with you:
A while ago you advised blog readers to find a niche and try getting published in a national parenting magazine to build an audience with moms. Well, I followed your advice and my first article in a national parenting magazine appears in the March 2013 issue of Parenting- School Years edition. I’ve also sold them a second article to be published at a future date, and am currently researching a third piece for them. Thank you for this great advice. For more info on the article which appears in the current issue, click the link to my blog below post below:
http://tinyurl.com/cgj5232
Illustrator Russ Cox, who was featured this year on Illustrator Saturday has been hired by Island Port Press to illustrate author Lynn Plourde book ”Merry Moosey Christmas” that is slated for release in 2014. Read the full release here: http://www.islandportpress.com/news.html.
You have the unique opportunity to have a one hour critique consultation with an experienced children’s book editor, Simone Kaplan at Picture Book People. Simone had a deal that I missed sharing with you, so I asked her if she would extend her $50 off a critique consultation with the visitors to my blog. She said she would extend it for a week to anyone using the Coupon Code KathyTemean. Simone has two decades of insider experience at Henry Holt and Company and HarperCollins Publishers during which she’s personally accepted, edited and rejected hundreds of children’s picture books. She knows, from beginning to end, how the words and pictures of your manuscript can jump off the page. You’ll find out where your manuscript is, where it should be and how you can best get there and spark the interest of an editor or agent.
To take advantage of this offer, simply use this link: http://bit.ly/XJu3HJ and the coupon code: KathyTemean March 1st to March 8th to receive your discount or LOVE2013 if you do it today Feb. 28th.
PLEASE VOTE: The first round of voting continues until midnight (PST) today. The top 5 titles that receive the most votes in each Regional Division will advance to the semi-final round of voting which begins on Monday, March 4, 2013 at 9am PST and closes on Friday March 15th at 6pm PST. You will be able to vote for a winner from these 5 titles.
To cast your vote simply log in to the www.scbwi.org website, click on the See what’s going on in your region, click on your regional page, then click on the Crystal Kite tab. Read through the list and then cast your vote for your favorite book.
The votes will then be tabulated and the top vote getters put on a short list for the next round of voting. Round Two voting opens on Monday March. 4th
Below are the books that were published in 2012 in the Atlantic Region (Pennsylvania/Delaware/New Jersey/Wash DC/Virginia/West Virginia/Maryland) Note: I listed all the books for the Atlantic Region, because the list is very impressive and it should give you inspiration to keep moving forward. Just imagine how long the list would be if I had the time to list all the regions. There are a lot of picture books on this list, so things are looking up in that area, too.
Elaine Allen
Mallory the Forgetful Duck
Gregory Allen
Chicken Boy: The Amazing Adventures of a Super Hero with Autism
Gigi Amateau
Come August, Come Freedom
Mary Amato
Guitar Notes
Kell Andrews
Deadwood
Beth Arnstein
I’M NOT AFRAID OF ANYTHING
Cyn Balog
TOUCHED
Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen
Pirate Princess
Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen
Half-Pint Pete, the Pirate
Gene Barretta
Timeless Thomas: How Thomas Edison Changed Our Lives
Charlotte Bennardo
Sirenz Back In Fashion
Kathy Beynette
When Your Porcupine Feels Prickly
Ann Bonwill
I Don’t Want to be a Pea!
Alfred Bortz
Meltdown: The Nuclear Disaster in Japan and Our Energy FutureJacqueline Boulter
Where Horses Fly
Monica Carnesi
Little Dog Lost: The True Story of a Brave Dog Named Baltic
Angelique Clarke
Boomer Explores Annapolis
Daryl Cobb
Pirates: The Ring of Hope
Carol Cole
The Penguin Lady
Debbie Dadey
Trouble at Trident Academy, Book one in Mermaid Tales series
Debbie Dadey
Battle of The Best Friends
Lorraine Dey
The Rain Forest Party
Natalie Dias Lorenzi
FLYING THE DRAGON
Frederic Durbin
The Star Shard
Ame Dyckman
BOY + BOT
Kelly Ehasz
Anna Abel Takes a Tumble
Marty Figley
Emily and Carlo
Kelly Fineman
At the Boardwalk
Elizabeth Foley
Remarkable
Alison Formento
THESE BEES COUNT!
Jennifer Gladen
Angel Donor
Cynthia Grady
I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of American Slavery
Jean Heilprin Diehl
Three Little Beavers
Wendy Higgins
Sweet Evil
Jennifer Hubbard
Try Not to Breathe
Ana Jennings
Gopher to the Rescue, A Volcano Recovery Story
Catherine King
Santa’s Glee
Alethea Kontis
Enchanted
Alethea Kontis
The Wonderland Alphabet: Alice’s Adventures Through the ABCs and What She Found There
Lana Krumwiede
Freakling
Karen Leggett
Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt’s Treasured Books
Kristin Levine
The Lions of Little Rock
Maggie Lyons
Vin and the Dorky Duet
Maggie Lyons
Dewi and the Seeds of Doom
Dionna Mann
Freedom Pen
Donna Mayers
Wish Upon a Chil.d
Donna Mayers
My Pets Are Always Getting Me Into Trouble!!
Margaret Medina
The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind
Jodi Moore
Good News Nelson
Dorothy Morrison
The Lapis Key
Michael Muller
Mirabelle and the Butterfly
Michael Muller
Mirabelle Goes for a Walk
Michael Muller
Mirabelle and the Bouncy Red Ball
Kim Norman
I KNOW A WEE PIGGY
Anna Olswanger
Greenhorn
Anne Marie Pace
Vampirina Ballerina
Sydelle Pearl
Hope Somewhere in America: the Story of a Child, a Painting, and a President
Mary Quattlebaum
Jo MacDonald Had a Garden
Candice Ransom
Rebel Mckenzie
Candice Ransom
Iva Honeysuckle Discovers the World
Ron Rauss
Can I Just Take A Nap?
Catherine Reef
The Bronte Sisters: The Brief Lives of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne
Brian Rock
WITH ALL MY HEART
Mara Rockliff
My Heart Will Not Sit Down
Mara Rockliff
Me and Momma and Big John
Luis Rodriguez
The Klampie Mystery
Madelyn Rosenberg
The Schmutzy Family
Madelyn Rosenberg
Happy Birthday, Tree: A Tu B’Shevat Story
Rachel Ross
Claws
Tiffany Schmidt
Send Me a Sign
Tracy Searight
Images in America Salem Township and Delmont
Marilyn Shank
Child of the Mountains
Jason Smith
Shoo Fly Please Bother Me
Jessica Spotswood
Born Wicked: Book 1 in the Cahill Witch Chronicles
Ann-Michele Sproviero
Caution: Under Construction
Vesper Stamper
The Night the Tooth Fairy Didn’t Come
Laurie Steckler
Lewis the Lamb
Mark Steensland
Behind the Bookcase
Lois Szymanski
Wild Colt
Audrey Vernick
Brothers at Bat: The True Story of an Amazing All-Brother Baseball Team
Audrey Vernick
So You Want to Be A Rock Star
Kristin Walker
7 Clues to Winning You
Sara Walsh
The Dark Light
Kate Walton
Cracked
Mark Weakland
Sports Illustrated Kids Football ABCs
Mark Weakland
Sports Illustrated Kids Football Opposites
Stephanie Weis
The Star Child
Timothy Young
Shadows On My Wall
Timothy Young
They’re Coming!
Natalie Zaman
Sirenz Back In Fashion
Glenn Zimmer
Dollars and Sense
Hope to see your name and book on this list next year!
Timothy Young posted in I Hate Picture Books! Book Launch Party! at Books of Wonder Saturday with cupcakes!
Talk tomorrow,
Kathy
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Africa: Finding Aunt Joan, Jenny Hatton and Joan Rankin: Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd.
Australia: The Last Viking, Norman Jorgensen: Fremantle Press
California/Hawaii: Won Ton – A Cat Tale Told in Haiku, Lee Wardlaw, Eugene Yelchin: Henry Holt Books for Young Readers
Florida/GA: Cleopatra’s Moon, Vicky Alvear Shecter: Arthur A. Levine Books (Scholastic Press)
Kansas/LA: Between Shades of Gray, Ruta Sepetys: Philomel Books (Penguin Young Readers Group)
Middle East/Asia: Orchards, Holly Thompson: Delacorte Dell (Random House)
Minnesota/Iowa: Bluefish, Pat Schmatz: Candlewick Press
Nevada: Black & White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene “Bull” Connor, Larry Brimner: Boyds Mills Press
New England: Pearl, Jo Knowles: Henry Holt Books for Young Readers
New York: Thelonious Mouse, Orel Protopopescu: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.
PA/DE/NJ: The Absolute Value of Mike, Kathryn Erskine: Philomel Books (Penguin Young Readers Group)
Texas/OK: MINE! Patrice Barton: Random House Children’s Books
Americas: Witchlanders, Lena Coakley: Atheneum Books for Young Readers (Simon & Schuster)
UK/Europe: Dark Parties, Sara Grant: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (Hachette Book Group USA)
Washington: The Friendship Doll, Kirby Larson: Delacorte Dell (Random House)
Congratulation to all the winners and to everyone who was dominated. I wish you much success with your books.
Talk tomorrow,
Kathy
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If you had a book published in 2011 don’t miss out on submitting it for the Golden Kite Award.
DEADLINE: DECEMBER 16th
Presented by the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators the Golden Kite Awards, given annually to recognize excellence in children’s literature, grant cash prizes of $2,500 to author and illustrator winners in four categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Picture Book Text, and Picture Book Illustration. Authors and illustrators will also receive an expense-paid trip to Los Angeles to attend the award ceremony at the Golden Kite Luncheon at SCBWI’s Summer Conference in August and a lifetime membership in SCBWI. A commemorative poster with the winners will be created and distributed to, among others, various schools, libraries and publishers.
In addition to the four Golden Kite Award winners, four honor book recipients will also be named by the panel of judges which consists of children’s book writers and illustrators.
Individuals: http://www.scbwi.org/Pages.aspx/Submission-Guidelines–Individuals
Publishers: http://www.scbwi.org/Pages.aspx/Submission-Guidelines–Publishers
Important dates for the 2012 Crystal Kites Members Choice Awards.
- Tuesday, January 31st – Last day to make sure your book is posted in your profile.
- Wednesday, February 1st – Round 1 Voting Begins.
- Wednesday, February 29th – Round 1 Voting Ends.
- Friday, March 2nd – Round 2 Voting Begins.
- Friday, March 16th – Round 2 Voting Ends.
- Monday, April 30 - 2012 Winners announced.
Eligibility
To be eligible for the 2012 Crystal Kite Awards, be sure to update your member profile with the publication information about your book published in 2011 by a P.A.L. publisher by January 31, 2012. Simply log in at SCBWI, click on “Manage Profile” and the “Publications” tab. Enter your book published in 2011, and click the box that reads “Yes, I would like to submit this publication for Crystal Kite Awards nomination.” Once voting has begun on February 1, 2012, no books will be able to be added to the competition.
Talk tomorrow,
Kathy
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Betsy Davany e-mailed me yesterday to let me know she won the New Voices in Children’s Literature: Tassy Walden Award for her middle grade manuscript titled, Savannah’s Mountain.
She was quite excited, because ever since the news broke yesterday she has had newspapers and editors contacting her about the win. We are quite excited too for Betsy. Even though Betsy lives in Connecticut, she really is a New Jersey member and belongs with us, well at least that is how we feel.
New Voices in Children’s Voices in Children’s Literature: Tassy Walden Awards program is sponsored byEvergreen Woods and Barnes & Noble with additional support from Helen H. and J. Sanford Davis. The Tassy Walden Awards ceremony is scheduled for May 18, 2011. It will be held at the Blackstone Memorial Library, Branford, CT at 7pm and is free and open to the public. So if you live in the area, it should be enjoyable to attend and hear the winners read selections from their manuscripts.
Betsy says, “Savannah’s story started as a first page, read at the very first SCBWI event I attended. Kathy Temean took me under her wing and encouraged me to sign up for the March 2007 Mentor Weekend. When she told me there would be a first page session, I decided to venture away from writing picture books to follow the voice of Savannah, an eleven-year-old girl. The writing caught the attention of the two editors present, one asked me to send her the first fifty pages of the novel. At that time, only the one page existed. Guided by belief in the work, and with much patience from the editor, I completed fifty pages, and then went on to finish writing Savannah’s story. The novel is currently with several editors at this time.”
In case you didn’t notice. The Crystal Kite Awards were announced this week. New Jersey had two members make the finals, but they were up against some stiff competition with the winning book. I’d like to point out how valuable it is to win this contest. I already have ordered four of the winning books. Books I would have not thought to order. Isn’t that what an author wants? I think, “Yes.” So don’t stick your nose up or take for granted these contests. They can really make things happen for you. I have listed three regions below:
Pennsylvania/Delaware/New Jersey/Wash DC/Virginia/West Virginia/Maryland
Kathryn D. Erskine – Mockingbird (Philomel Books – Penguin Young Readers Group)
Congratulations to the finalists for the 2011 Crystal Kite Award. New Jersey is proud to see two of our members make the list – Linda Bozzo and Alison Formento.
You have until April 15th to vote in round two. Winners will be notified the following week, and formally announced on April 30th, 2011.
To cast your vote, simply log in with your email address and password, then click the link on your member home page that says “See What’s Going on in Your Region!”
| PENNSYLVANIA/DELAWARE/NEW JERSEY/WASHINGTON DC/VIRGINIA WEST VIRGINIA/MARYLAND |
| Title |
Author |
| Freestyle |
Monica Baker |
| Mockingbird |
Kathryn Erskine |
| Service Dog Heroes |
Linda Bozzo |
| The Strange Case of Origami Yoda |
Tom Angleberger |
| The True Story of Sea Feather |
Lois Szymanski |
| This Tree Counts! |
Alison Ashley Formento |
Alison Ashley Formento is the author of This Tree Counts!, This Tree, 1, 2, 3 and in 2012, These Bees Count! (Albert Whitman & Co.). She has written several plays, short stories and poetry and was a co-writer of the romance/thriller, Pandora. Alison has written for several national publications including The New York Times, The Writer and Parenting. She’s a proud member of the SCBWI and the KidLit Authors Club. Besides writing about trees, Alison enjoys climbing them, too, and dreams of living in her own magic tree house. Alison visits schools and libraries across the country, sharing her writing and books with kids and donates a portion of her book sales to AmericanForests.org to help plant more trees. www.alisonashleyformento.com
It was when I started reading picture books to my children that I felt compelled to write and submit my work to magazine and book publishers. I spent endless hours on the internet and at the library learning everything I could about writing. It wasn’t long before I joined the Society of Children’s Writers and Illustrators. After I attended my first writing conference, I was hooked. Okay, I became obsessed!
It was only a few months after I started writing that I received my first acceptance. I was thrilled to find out that Babybug magazine was going to publish my poem, Playground Fun.
I write every day and I’m always working on something new while polishing so
Quite the melting pot of good news! And I know who’ll be getting MY vote for the Crystal Kite 
I hope there are more Wild Wild Midwest conferences, too, since I didn't get to go this year. Enjoy!
So glad you found a new place for Girls Write!
Have a fabulous time, Carmela--and thanks for the link to the Crystal Kite awards. And I hope to see you at SCBWI's summer conference some year!