by SCBWI Western Washington
Reported by Kerri Kokias: Martha Mihalick, associate editor of Greenwillow Books, spoke on Hidden Spaces: Building Memorable Characters and the Ties Between Them. She said writers need to develop characters that their readers can identify with, love, sympathize with, or love to hate. It’s important to develop your main character, your secondary characters, and just... Continue Reading →
Justin Chanda is vice president and publisher at Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. Justin started his talk about the future of publishing by dispelling a couple of myths: 1) Myth: Simon and Schuster isn't interested in literary books. This isn't true--they have literary imprints. But he wasn't about to disparage any sort of... Continue Reading →
Lionel Bender, who's on our Editorial and Art Director Faculty spoke about visiting book fairs and exhibitions. A valuable event because:You can see huge number of publishers (all at one place).Publishers will display what they are about to publish (new products).You can get key information for submitting knowing the new products.Only place you stand a... Continue Reading →
Developing Flaws in the Characters You Love Rosanne Parry is the author of DADDY'S HOME and the middle-grade novels THE HEART OF A SHEPHERD and SECOND FIDDLE. What you need in a story is conflict. People in this industry are nice people. A lot of nice people write nice characters. Rosanne sees others write many... Continue Reading →
A favorite conference tradition we do here at the annual SCBWI Western Washington conference is to host a panel discussion by editors, agents, and art directors, who talk about what they do, what they're looking for, and their perspectives on the industry today. Lionel Bender, editorial director Bender Richardson White: Most work is work-for-hire commissioned... Continue Reading →
Jolie is welcoming us all and sharing some delicious trivia: the most common question asked by a first-time attendee: What should I wear? Jolie Stekly welcoming the crowd Fortunately, everyone got the message this is not a clothing-optional conference. Everyone is appropriately dressed. Yay! The room is now buzzing as people introduce themselves to each... Continue Reading →
Hip Hip Hooray! Today is opening day for our 20th Annual Writing and Illustrating for Children Conference!! For those of you who are joining us we have a rich & full day of programming! Make sure you check your schedules for information about the day! If you are missing the conference (and we're missing you!)... Continue Reading →
Happy Friday All! The pre-conference fun starts today! To add to the fun here's the last Faculty Q & A from our 20th Annual Writing and Illustrating for Children Conference Faculty! Enjoy these answers from Keynote Speaker Deborah Wiles. Deborah will be our first keynote speaker on Saturday, and you can read her Conference Bio... Continue Reading →
The SCBWI WWA Store will be open during Conference and located at the Registration Desk. Come by during the Conference and stock up on new t-shirts, pens, USB drives, plus much, much, more. Remember, we only take Cash or Checks, so plan accordingly. All proceeds go to our SCBWI Western Washington Chapter.
IT'S THURSDAY!! Has everyone packed? Have you brought your notebook to write down all the incredible things that you'll hear? Packed your cash and/or checks for the SCBWI store? Picked out a fun costume for the Dance Party? Well, if haven't you've got one more day to get it done before our 20th Annual Writing... Continue Reading →
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