DATE: January 21, 2012
CONTACT: Patricia Newman and Erin Dealey
LOCATION/TIME: Rancho Cordova City Hall, 2729 Prospect Park Drive • Rancho Cordova, CA 95670
SOLD OUT! Email us if you would like to be placed on the waiting list.
scbwicanorthcentral@gmail.com
Subject Line: NF Intensive Wait List
Caroline Arnold, prolific author/illustrator
Abigail Samoun, Agent/Principal, Red Fox Literary Agency
Carolyn Yoder, Senior Editor, Calkins Creek Books/Senior Editor, Highlights
Members $70 / Non-Members $80 (Note: prices go up after Dec. 21, 2011)
Come with questions and your brown bag lunch! Note: Early registration closes Dec. 21, 2011.
SCHEDULE
8:30 am Registration
9:00 am Welcome and faculty introductions
9:15 am Keynote: Nonfiction is NOT Dead
Caroline Arnold, award-winning nonfiction author/illustrator
Crafting your book to fit today's nonfiction market, focusing on text, visuals, and extra material to make a complete package. An author/illustrator's point of view on taking your idea from a jumble of facts to a compelling book that kids will want to read.
10:00 am Break
10:20 am The Fun of Researching, Writing, and Rewriting Nonfiction
Carolyn Yoder, Senior Editor, Calkins Creek Books/Senior Editor, Highlights
What do I look for when I meet a manuscript for the first time? Original research, original writing, and most of all passion! This workshop will discuss all three processes in depth as well as the editor/author relationship.
11:15 am Writing it Right Panel Discussion (Part 1)
Jeri Chase Ferris, Connie Goldsmith and Lori Mortenson, 3 distinguished regional nonfiction authors
Where Do Ideas Come From?; Queries; Proposals
12:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm Writing It Right Panel Discussion (Part 2)
5 Common Mistakes in Writing Nonfiction; Research and Images; Biographies
1:45 pm The New Picturebook Biography
Abigail Samoun, Agent/Principal, Red Fox Literary Agency
What makes today's picture book biographies different from those published a decade or two ago? What will make your own biographical manuscript stand-out from the slush pile? Join the editor of For the Love of Music: The Remarkable Story of Maria Anna Mozart, which just received starred reviews from both Kirkus and Publishers Weekly, for an introduction to that fascinating character called the contemporary picture book biography.
2:30 pm Break
2:40 pm Faculty and Panel Q&A; Closing remarks
3:30 pm Pick up written critiques