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The 2013 Crystal Kite Winner Profiles: Western Washington's Kim Baker (for "Pickle") 22 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
SCBWI's 2013 Crystal Kite Award for the USA West division (Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota) is Kim Baker for her middle grade novel, "Pickle." 2013 Crystal K...
Crowd Funding Bookstores 20 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
We've heard of crowd funding self-published books, and crowd funding book trailers, but now there's a new twist to how technology is democratizing patronage. It used to be that only the very wealthy ...
The 2013 Crystal Kite Winner Profiles: New England's Jo Knowles (for "See You At Harry's") 15 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
The 2013 Crystal Kite Award for the New England region (Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island) goes to Jo Knowles for her middle grade novel, "See You At Harry's."...
How Do Dinosaurs Punctuate? (Or, Is It One Space Between Sentences Or Two?) 13 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Evidently, my habit of putting two spaces between sentences is a lesson I learned long ago that has since gone extinct. As The Chicago Manual of Style helpfully points out, 2.9 Word spacing—one spac...
The 2013 Crystal Kite Winner Profiles: New York Eastern Upstate's Kate Messner (for "Capture The Flag") 8 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
The 2013 Crystal Kite Award for the New York region goes to Kate Messner for her novel "Capture The Flag" (Scholastic.) 2013 Crystal Kite Winner Kate Messner Kate has previously won the 2012 Golden ...
A Twitter View Of #LA13SCBWI 6 Aug 2013 | 07:54 pm
The tweets from the 2013 SCBWI Summer Conference are a time capsule of the last four days. Below I've shared some tweets that jumped out at me. Even if you're not on twitter, you can check out the t...
The Sold-Out 2013 SCBWI Summer Conference (#LA13SCBWI) Starts Tomorrow! 1 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Three things you should know... 1. If you won't be here in Los Angeles for the conference, you can still follow along and get a taste of all the excitement at The Official SCBWI Conference Blog! If...
Especially For Illustrators! A Digital - and Interactive - Edition of Josef Alber's Landmark "Interaction of Color" 30 Jul 2013 | 03:00 pm
Yale University Press is releasing this digital 50th Anniversary edition of "Interaction of Color." It's of the most influential books on color ever written, and as described in SCBWI's "THE BOOK," ...
Innovations In Book Marketing - A Guest Post by Melissa Stewart 25 Jul 2013 | 03:00 pm
As part of our occasional "Innovations In Book Marketing" series, I asked author Melissa Stewart to tell us about what she's created for her latest non fiction picture book... When I visit schools, k...
150 resources for writers - an article worth exploring 23 Jul 2013 | 03:00 pm
This article, 150 resources to Help You Write Better, Faster, and More Persuasively has some great links in it. Sections include resources on Blogs, Legal, Style and Citation, English, Genres, Info, ...
