Saturday, January 30, 2010

The Real Deal about Visual Storytelling with Laurent Linn, Part One

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MUPPET IN THE HOUSE! You all should know by now that Laurent Linn worked for the Muppets for about eleven years starting when he was seven y...

Peter Sis is on stage!

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His keynote is called "Making Sense of Life Through Books" He is happy to be here in our big group because he feels like he belong...

Ben Schrank Hot Tip

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A common mistake: writing for the market. There's a market. You can think about it. But Ben recommends that you not write for it. What ...

The Real Deal About Picture Books with Allyn Johnston

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A knockout first session with the VP and Publisher of Simon & Schuster's Beach Lane Books. Allyn spent the session talking only abou...

Ben Schrank's Real Deal: When Everything Goes Right

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All the factors that went into success of "13 Reasons Why" (Jay Asher's amazing YA debut, which has sold nearly half a million...

Alvina Ling: Literary Novels (cont.)

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Many editors want to hit the sweet spot of a combination of both literary and commercial. Loves literary fiction with a commercial hook. HO...

Ben Schrank gives us the Real Deal About Writing For Teens

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Ben Schrank is the publisher of Razorbill, and he's sharing the true dream story of why he acquired a book... what grabbed him: he loved...
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Alvina Ling: Literary Novels

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Alvina Ling, Senior Editor, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Alvina's main love is literary fiction. But what is it? (A general def...

Series Fiction with Francesco Sedita

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Francesco Sedita--vice president and publisher, Grosset & Dunlap--is completely charming!! One of the things that he's focusing on r...

Jacqueline Woodson's Keynote: More Amazing Moments

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"It makes us better people in this world to do our art... art creates change." "When I write it's not physically autobiog...

Jacqueline Woodson Hot Tip

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So much great stuff - here's one moment: Jaqueline just shared that when she was in a writing class years ago, she got a piece of advice...

Jacqueline Woodson's Lunchtime Keynote: This is going to be awesome!

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Jacqueline Woodson, moments before taking the stage! Jacqueline Woodson is an amazingly accomplished and celebated author, of picture books,...

Jenn Bailey: Viral Marketing/Promotions

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Jenn Bailey - Graphic Designer/Professional Blogger (Jenn Bailey is coming! Jenn Bailey is coming!) Lesson #1: you can’t teach viral marketi...
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Amazon's Jon Fine Announces $25,000 grant to SCBWI to support work in progress grants!

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Wow! He also mentioned Amazon's breakthrough novel contest, which for the first time this year has a YA category... entries accepted unt...

Edward Necarsulmer-The Exciting World of Contracts!

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I walked into a packed room to observe McIntosh and Otis agent, Edward Necarsulmer's speech on contracts. And Jane Yolen was in the crow...
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Ari Lewin On Fantasy...

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Two more great moments from Ari's session: She spoke about how starting your fantasy story at the pivotal moment can feel abrupt. To giv...
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BRENDA MURRAY: The Real Deal on Nonfiction

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Brenda's fun show and tell is over. Now down to the business. A few hot/popular topics in nonfiction: animals sharks dogs snakes ocean l...
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BRENDA MURRAY: The Real Deal on Nonfiction

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Scholastic editor Brenda Murray edits a range of nonfiction material for young readers for a range of ages. I wish you all were here--she...

Arianne Lewin's Hot Tip!

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A problem that happens with new fantasy writers is that they get so caught up in the world that they've created that they forget it has ...
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The Real Deal About Writing Fantasy With Arianne Lewin

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Ari Lewin is an Editor at Disney/Hyperion She's edited a lot of fantasy books, picture books, chapter books, and the bulk of what she do...

EDDIE GAMARRA: The Real Deal About Television & New Media

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Hollywood is derivative; Hollywood is redundant; Hollywood is driven by brands, Eddie says. It can still be hard to predict what will work--...
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EDDIE GAMARRA: The Real Deal About Television & New Media

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Gotham likes to think this way: If you have an idea and you think it works as a books, sell it as a book first. In Hollywood when a project ...
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EDDIE GAMARRA: The Real Deal About Television & New Media

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Gotham Group's Eddie Gamarra has worked with Libba Bray, Holly Black, Mo Willems and other great authors. This conference, he says, is s...

Opening Keynote: LIBBA BRAY (Part 2)

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"Trying to please other people with your story is madness." "There is no sure thing except the magic of writing what matters...

Opening Keynote: LIBBA BRAY

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Libba Bray (Super Vixen and Super Author) takes the stage. Within 5 seconds, NO joke, has people cracking up. Oh, yes...there's the Su...