Registration for the 2013 New Jersey Annual Conference is just days away. We are fixing last-minute glitches, crossing Is and dotting Ts (or vice-versa) and we couldn't be more excited!
Mark your calendar:
June 7-9, 2013
The Crowne Plaza-Holiday Inn Express (Formerly the Wyndham)
Princeton, NJ
Keynote speakers:
Caldecott Honor Illusrator/Author Peter Brown
Times Best-selling Author Lauren Oliver
Are you published, but need help with marketing your books? There's a workshop for that!
Are you brand new to the kidlit world and don't know where to start? There's a workshop for that!
Have you had trouble fleshing out a main character, atagonist or plot for your story? There are several worshops for that!
And we've got more than 50 faculty members compiled of editors, agents, art directors, librarians and author/illustrator speakers joining us this year, and more than 70 workshops to choose from. Panels, pitching sessions, keynotes, one-on-one critiques, craft workshops, lectures, intensives, a bookfair, portfolio display, juried art show, and oodles of networking opportunities, oh my!
EDITORS/AGENTS/ART DIRECTORS/LIBRARIANS
Jenne Abramowitz, Senior Editor, Scholastic
Heather Alexander, Editor, Dial BFYR/Penguin
Elizabeth (Betsy) Bird, Librarian, NYPL/SLJ
Erin Clarke, Senior Editor, Random House
John Cusick, Agent, Greenhouse Literary
Melissa Faulner, Editorial Assistant, Abrams
Louise Fury, Agent, L. Perkins Agency
Julie Ham, Editor, Charlesbridge
Erin Harris, Agent, Folio
Janine Hauber, Agent, Sheldon Fogelman
Ginger Harris, Agent, Liza Royce Agency
Lexa Hillyer, Editor/Co-Founder, Paper Lantern Literary
Connie Hsu, Senior Editor, Little, Brown
Simone Kaplan, Editor, Picture Book People
Janet Kusmierski, Art Director, Scholastic
Tricia Lawrence, Agent, Erin Murphy Literary
Steve Meltzer, Executive editor, Penguin BFYR
Rotem Moscowich, Senior Editor, Disney/Hyperion
Meredith Mundy, Executive Editor, Sterling
Rachel Orr, Agent, Prospect Agency
Jessica Regel, Agent, Jean V. Naggar Agency
Shauna Rossano, Editor, G.P. Putnams' Sons/Penguin
Martha Sikkema, Senior Designer, Charlesbridge
Christina Tugeau, Agent/Art Rep, Cat Tugeau Agency
Carolyn Yoder, SeniorEditor, Calkins Creek Books
Marietta Zacker, Agent, Nancy Galt
Hope this list excites you as much as it does us and you’ll join us in Princeton this year. It’s going to be a great weekend!
For more info, click HERE.