If you liked Rachel Orr's presentation at the conference last week, she's teaching a middle grade writing class through MediaBistro. Signup deadline is tomorrow (Tuesday). Here's the link: http://www.mediabistro.com/courses/middle-grade-novel-writing/online/9038/ Don't delay---To repeat, TUESDAY, APRIL 28 is your deadline!!
Conference faculty profile: Tricia Lawrence
Not-so-secret agent: Tricia Lawrence will critique your work during the Roundtable sessions. An associate agent with Erin Murphy Literary Agency (“Pacific Northwest branch”), Tricia Lawrence was born and raised in Oregon, and now lives in Seattle. After 19 years of working as a developmental and production-based editor (from kids books to college textbooks, but mostly... Continue Reading →
Conference faculty profile: Genevieve Nine
Genevieve Nine is looking for authors! Genevieve Nine has always been drawn to the fantastic, the curious, and the unexpected. As a recently promoted agent at Andrea Hurst Literary Management, she’s looking to represent authors who weave layered tales with well-developed worlds and characters that threaten to burst from the page of middle-grade and young... Continue Reading →
Conference faculty profile: Mandy Hubbard
Mandy Hubbard, double-threat: Published author AND literary agent! Literary agent Mandy Hubbard joined D4EO Literary in February 2010, specializing in YA and MG fiction. Her clients include Cindy Callaghan (Lost in London, 2013, Aladdin Mix), Joy Hensley (Rites of Passage, Harper, 2014), and Jessica Martinez (Kiss Kill Vanish, Harper, 2014). Mandy signed local author... Continue Reading →
Conference faculty profile: Clelia Gore
Clelia Gore As an agent and Literary and Media Manager at Martin Literary Management, Clelia Gore is based on Mercer Island and specializes in books for children and young adults. Clelia is a former attorney from New York City, but much prefers her life in Seattle representing talented authors and illustrators and helping to... Continue Reading →
Conference faculty profile: Christa Heschke
Christa Heschke will demystify the process of writing a mystery. Christa Heschke started in publishing as an intern at both Writers House and Sterling Lord Literistic, where she fell in love with the agency side of publishing. As an agent at McIntosh & Otis, where she has been in the Children's Literature Department since 2009,... Continue Reading →
Conference faculty profile: Rachel Orr
Rachel will turn your Flat opening pages into Fab ones! Rachel Orr is celebrating her eighth year as an agent at the Prospect Agency, celebrating her eighth year there. She previously worked for eight rewarding years at HarperCollins Children's Books, and uses those editorial skills to help prepare her clients’ work for submission. Her clients... Continue Reading →
Conference faculty profile: Jennifer Rofé
Agent Jennifer Rofé is looking for "adorkable" heroes. Jennifer Rofé, an agent with Andrea Brown Literary Agency, represents projects ranging from picture books to young adult, with middle grade being her soft spot. Some of her representative titles include: the middle grade novels The Year the Swallows Came Early by Kathryn Fitzmaurice and How Lamar’s Bad Prank... Continue Reading →
Places for today’s events
Last night's fall kickoff went swimmingly! And for those who will be meeting with Writers House agent Brianne Johnson today, just to eliminate any confusion: The agent consults (for those already registered and confirmed for them) are in the library, conference room A from 9 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.. The master class is from 3... Continue Reading →
Don’t forget your passport to fun and career education!
Okay, now that the idyllic summer weather is fading and the back-to-school rush is over, don't forget to get your passport to all of SCBWI Western Washington's 2014-2015 monthly events, which will start on October 16 with a perennial favorite, our fall kickoff with an agent. (Specifically, Brianne Johnson of Writers House, who you can... Continue Reading →