You may know someone who is hesitating to pursue his or her Chautauqua dream due to finances. The Highlights Foundation offers scholarships and now is the time to find out more.A lot of children’s writers dream of the Highlights Foundation Writers Workshop at Chautauqua. “Next year,” they promise themselves. “Next year, I’m going to Chautauqua!”... Continue Reading →
Graphic Artists Guild Holiday Bash & Silent Auction
It's the SPGA/Seattle Chapter Graphic Artists Guild Holiday Bash and Silent Auction on Wednesday, December 15, from 6:30-9 p.m. Join us at the Pyramid Alehouse for nibbles and a chance to bid on some great items. Bring a guest and your cash or checkbook (NO PLASTIC, sorry!) to bid on items like:Wacom tabletTraining sessions with... Continue Reading →
BookScan info on Amazon
Here's an interesting turn of events for published authors: Amazon's providing BookScan figures on Author Central.I'm afraid to even look. What do you think — is this a useful tool that's long overdue, or just another way to obsess when we should be writing or creating art?
Article Opportunity for The Chinook
Greetings, fellow SCBWI-WWA members...In honor of Google's release of eBooks today, I would like to challenge one or more of you to write an article for The Chinook about the various e-readers and electronic book movement. I'm open to different takes on the issue, though I'd like to keep things positive and informative, rather than... Continue Reading →
More Than Six Reasons to Attend the Meeting Next Week
You're probably already planning on attending our Professional Series meeting next week, right? Our very own PEGGY KING ANDERSON will be speaking, as well as Bruce Holland Rogers from the Whidbey Island MFA program. That there is enough to get you in your seat at SPU come the 14th.But wait, there's more.Let me count the... Continue Reading →
Still a few spots left in THE GREAT CRITIQUE!
Help your work evolve from good… to GREAT! Your SCBWI Western Washington Region will again present THE GREAT CRITIQUE during our first 2011 meeting on January 11, 2011. This popular event offers you the opportunity to experience a model critique group led by a published professional. This year’s critique group leaders include Peggy King Anderson, Donna Bergman,... Continue Reading →
Next Kid Lit Pub Night…
Thanks again to everyone who came to the make-up Kid Lit Pub night last Monday in Bellevue. It's a great way to meet new faces as well as old friends. This time there was a lot of talk about current projects, NaNoWriMo fatigue, and industry chatter. The next date to mark on your calendar is... Continue Reading →
New SCBWI Benefit for PAL (or soon to be PAL) members!
The SCBWI website has a new feature especially for published or soon-to-be published members — a discussion board specifically for authors and illustrators with a book coming out in 2011. The new discussion board will be a great place to share notes, swap promotion ideas, or team up with other like-minded folks to coordinate on... Continue Reading →
Authors & Illustrators Book Signing!!
Nina Laden, Paul Owen Lewis, and Craig Orback will be signing books at The Bookworm Burrow on December 12, from 1-3 p.m. Come on in, have some fun and meet children's book Authors and Illustrators! For more information and location go to the Bookworm Burrow's website.
Holly Cupala’s Book Bash!!
Local SCBWI member, and former Assistant Regional Advisor, Holly Cupala is holding her very first public TELL ME A SECRET bash this Saturday, December 4, at 6 p.m. at Kirkland Parkplace Books. Join her for an evening of music that inspired the book, story secrets, tasty morsels from "Cafe Shiraz" (the restaurant in the book,... Continue Reading →