Annual Conference - Los Angeles

If you have signed up for an individual consultation, please read through the submission guidelines below.
Consultations are available only to full-time conference attendees who are SCBWI members.

Due to the number of consultations we schedule each year, space is limited to ONE CONSULTATION PER MEMBER. Choose either "MANUSCRIPT" (picture book, middle-grade OR YA novel) or "PORTFOLIO."

If you did not sign up for a consultation when you registered and would like to add one now, be sure you send the $75 with your materials before the June 14th deadline.

After registering online, submit your manuscript to the address below. If registering by mail, include your registration form and fee.

SCBWI Summer Conference

8271 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90048

Manuscripts must ARRIVE (not postmarked--but be received in our offices) ON or BEFORE Thursday, June 14th, 2007. Manuscripts received AFTER June 14th will NOT be accepted.
If you are signing up for a manuscript consultation AND the "Increasing Your Sales & Revenue" Luncheon for published authors on Friday, August 3rd, please note that on your manuscript title page so that we do not schedule your consultation during the lunch.
For Picture Book manuscripts, please send ONE full manuscript (no more than 10 manuscript pages) without illustrations. Do not include a dummy. Your picture book text must be written out in manuscript form. If you have a dummy, you may bring it to the consultation at the conference.
For Poetry, send no more than 10 pages, one page per poem.
For Chapter Books/Middle Grade/YA Novels, please send ONLY up to the FIRST 15 pages of ONE manuscript (in consecutive order). PLUS, please include a one-page SYNOPSIS of your book.
Once a manuscript is submitted, no new drafts or new pages can be submitted due to the volume of manuscripts received.
When preparing your manuscript for submission, please read through the SCBWI publication “TIPS FOR MANUSCRIPT CONSULTATIONS." If you signed up for a consultation with your registration, a copy of this document will be enclosed with your confirmation letter.
While we can guarantee a professional reviewer, we cannot guarantee a review with an editor, agent, or publisher.
Since many of you have participated in the manuscript consultations in the past and we utilize some of the same reviewers each year, please indicate who has reviewed your manuscript in the past two years and we will make sure you get someone new.
We will do our best to match you with a reviewer from your genre.
Please note: consultation appointments take place during lunch and workshops blocks (not during main keynote sessions). Appointment assignments will be given with registration materials on Friday, August 3rd.
Questions? Please contact our Consultations Coordinator.

You MUST send an 8.5” X 11” promo sheet (one-sided only) with your registration form or via email (up to 5MB in size; compressed/zipped files are fine) to LAportfolios@scbwi.org.
If sent by email, please be advised that we are on a PC platform. We can view the following file types: .pdf, .tif, .bmp, .ai, .psd, and .jpg. Please save files as 200dpi to 300dpi since we do print them out.
Promo sheets sent by email or post must ARRIVE ON or BEFORE June 14th.
If you are signing up for a portfolio consultation AND the "Increasing Your Sales & Revenue" Luncheon for published authors on Friday, August 3rd, please note that on your manuscript title page so that we do not schedule your consultation during the lunch.
Please make sure all of your contact information is visible on the sheet.
Questions? Please contact our Consultations Coordinator.

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