On Sunday, the final day of the SCBWI 2010 Winter Conference, Susan Raab, founder of Raab Associates, gave an informative talk on today’s children’s literature market. She’d done an impressive the amount of research on the topic. Here’s a recap of …
SCBWI NY: Writing for Teens
On the first morning of the SCBWI 2010 Winter Conference, I attended Ben Schrank’s session entitled “Writing for Teens”. Schrank is the President and Publisher of Razorbill. He shared the following words of advice and caution to authors. Writing for …
SCBWI NY: Post-Intensives Q&A Panel
After the Friday Intensives (critique sessions) portion of the SCBWI 2010 Winter Conference, Lin Oliver led a Q&A session with Wendy Loggia (Executive Editor, Delacorte Press), Ari Lewin (Senior Editor, Disney/Hyperion) and Allyn Johnston (V.P. and Publisher of Beach Lane …
Twelve Posts on Writing, Day Eight: Going fishing
When I was a kid, my family went camping. A lot. I’m not talking KOA-comfort, complete-with-showers camping, either. I’m talking the rugged, dirty, go-behind-a-tree type here. And on these trips, we always took our fishing poles. Mine was black with …