AUTHORS GUILD FIGHTS
FOR FREELANCE RIGHTS
The
Authors Guild is protesting a recent contract from Ziff Davis Media
which
asks
their regular freelancers to forfeit all rights, without compensation,
to their
previous Ziff Davis articles
or they will forfeit the chance for future assignments. The SCBWI
joins the Guild in recommending
against signing such agreements with any publisher. The timing
is particularly bad
now because signing weakens the author’s claims in the ongoing
National Writers Union against
the NY Times and others regarding the taking of electronic rights.
The suit, which was won by
the NWU, is currently in a mediation settlement.
READING RAINBOW LEAVING
THE AIR
The Emmy Award winning PBS show Reading Rainbow is scheduled to
end its twenty year
run unless viewers can successfully rally to save it from extinction.
Member Cynthia Cotten
urges members to call their local PBS station and let them know
why you value Reading Rainbow or write to PBS’s national program chief John Wilson, VP
Programming, PBS, 1320 Braddock
Place, Alexandra, VA 22314 and specify why Reading Rainbow is important
you and to
the larger children’s book community and the children it
serves.
KARLIN GRANTS AWARDED
Jann Johnson of West Valley City, UT, and her book Wisdom Weaver,
is this year’s winner of the $1,500 Barbara Karlin Grant
Award winner for picture book writing. The $500 runner-up grant
was
awarded to Kelly Houle of Fountain Hills, AZ, for her book,
Full Moon. Our congratulations
to the winners and our thanks to the Grant Coordinator Stephanie
Jacob Gordon and First Reader
Judy Enderle, as well as to our judges Virginia Duncan, Robert
Sabuda, and Jackie French Koller. Grant applications for next year’s
competition are available in the Awards
& Grants section of the
website or by sending an SASE bearing 37 cents in postage to the
SCBWI office after October 1.
MARILYN MARLOW
At press time the SCBWI was deeply saddened to learn of the passing,
August 25, of a beloved friend and early supporter of the SCBWI,
Marilyn Marlow. Ms. Marlow, an agent at Curtis Brown, Ltd. was a
legendary figure in the field, known for her devotion to her many
noted authors and her compassion for fine children's literature.
A more complete tribute will appear in the next Bulletin.
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