Current Scratch: Local Events, Publishing News, For the Illustrator, And A Bit Of Fun

Howdy, folks! Can you feel it? Spring is all abuzz. I hope your writing and illustrating projects are zooming with invigorating energy. If not...grab a pen / pencil and a notebook and head outdoors. Let nature inspire you!

Mark your calendars. Our next Schmooze will fall on 3-27-13 at the College Station Barnes and Noble. Bring copies (up to 5) for gentle critique at 9:30 a.m. Our Schmooze program begins at 10 a.m. This month: Kid-lit discussion boards - Why? What? How? Speaker: Molly Blaisdell, moderator for Children's Writer and Illustrator Board. See you there!

SCBWI Brazos Valley presents "Self-Publishing: When, Why & How to

Professionally Self-Publish Your Book" with Erin Casey, author, editor, and self-publishing expert. More info? http://www.erin-casey.com/

Date: Saturday, April 6, 2013
Time: 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. 

Place: Arts Center, 2275 Dartmouth St., College Station, Texas 77840

Fee: $20 for SCBWI members/$25 non-members

Bring your own lunch and join us at the Arts Center!  Click for registration form.

Also mark your calendar. It's national poetry month, and our local region of SCBWI promotes poetry in the our town every year by holding a contest for 6th through 8th graders in the Brazos Valley. Consider attending the award ceremony.  Want to know more? Please email our regional advisor, Liz Mertz.

Young Poets on the Brazos poetry reading and award ceremony

Date: April 16, 2013
Time: 7 p.m.
Place: A&M United Methodist Church, 417 University, College Station

LOCAL EVENTS

Bestselling & award winning author presents a 2-part workshop
Writing Workshop with Beth Wiseman

PUBLISHING NEWS

Check this out
Bestselling Children's Books of 2012

FOR THE ILLUSTRATORS

"Art is a language"
Speak the Language by E.B. Lewis

AND FOR A BIT OF FUN

Who doesn't love cupcakes and books?
Have Your (Cup)Cake & Read it Too


The views expressed here are my own, and not necessarily those of the SCBWI.

Current Scratch: Local Events, Shout Out, Awards, App, New Adult

Howdy, folks!  Spring is in the air! Proof positve: my redbud tree is covered with buds. I hope that you are springing up with new projects, too. I've heard there are bluebonnets in North Bryan already!

Mark your calendars. Our next Schmooze will fall on 3-27-13 at the College Station Barnes and Noble. Bring copies (up to 5) for gentle critique at 9:30 a.m.  Our Schmooze program begins at 10 a.m. This month: Kid-lit discussion boards - Why? What? How? See you there!

LOCAL EVENTS

Children's Literature Book Club
Date: March 28
Time: 4:30 PM
Place: The ArtsCenter

Please learn more by following this link: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChildLitbookclub/

SHOUT OUT!

Congrats!  Beautiful new cover of Sherry Garland's book, Voices of Pearl Harbor. Available locally at Barnes and Noble.

AWARDS

This year's SCBWI Golden Kite has been announced along with Sid Fleischman Award winners and honorees. The Golden Kite for fiction goes to: The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook by Joanne Rocklin. For the complete list of winners, follow this link.

Check out the Charolotte Zolotow Award for picture book text awarded by the Cooperative Children's Book Center. This year's winner is  Each Kindness, written by Jacqueline Woodson and illustrated by E. B. Lewis. Follow the link to learn the rest of the honorees.

APP

Here is an app that may be of some interest to you. Check out Scholastic's Storia.

New Adult

One buzzing genre out there is a new adult and may be of some interest to those who write books for readers between teens and adults. Here is an article discussing this new genre. Check out this article about  a "new adult" imprint.


The views expressed here are my own, and not necessarily those of the SCBWI.