Monthly Meeting
Tracy Gee Community Center, Houston
Holiday Celebration. Visit our website for further details.

Mini-Workshop
Westminster Congregational Church, Spokane, WA 10:00am to 1:00pm
Westminster Congregational Church, Spokane. 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Our speaker is Linda Juergenson on "Dramatic Dialogue." Linda is a playwright who will show us how strong dialogue can advance plot and character. Admission is $5 for members and $10 for guests. Parking is free.

End-of-Year Season's Greetings Book Party
Wendy Hartmann’s home, 11:00-17:00
We will exchange gifts, talk Children’s Books, eat, drink coffee and tea and be merry. A venue to show your recent publications or work in progress. Cost: R25.00 (Includes tea/coffee & sandwiches.) For directions visit the website, or contact Marjorie van Heerden.

SCBWI Arizona at the Arizona Library Association 2008 Conference
Renaissance Glendale Hotel and Spa, Glendale
For more information as it becomes available, please visit our website.

Booktalk & Group Critiques
TBA in Makati , 6:00pm - 9:00pm
This event is open to members and non-members. Bring any children's or young adult book that you can share and discuss, or bring a work in progress - your manuscript or your portfolio for children and young adults. A round-table discussion follows. Attendance fee covers one drink: P100 for SCBWI members, P120 for non-members. Contact Beaulah Taguiwalo or Dominique Torres (Nikki), or visit the website for further details.

Professional Series Meeting
Seattle Pacific University, WA. Registration at 6:30 pm. Program begins promptly at 7:00 pm.Join us for our annual holiday party followed by an inspirational talk by Portland author Laini Taylor on "Completing and Revising Your Novel." For information, contact Sara Easterly or visit the website.

Second Saturday Series
Redwood City Library in Redwood City
This is a three hour meeting with a speaker presentation. Details on speakers and topics can be found under the conference/event link at www.scbwinorca.org as they become available.

December 13
REGION: California - San Diego
CONTACT: Janice M. Yuwiler

Chapter Meeting
University of San Diego, Hahn School of Nursing, Room 106 from 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Lessons Learned and Holiday Book Sale featuring published authors and illustrators from the San Diego Chapter of SCBWI. Visit website for details.

December 13
REGION: Moscow
CONTACT: Amy Thomas

Manuscript Critique Meeting
Location TBA
Open to members and non-members, writers and illustrators. Meetings are in English. Bring up to 1,500 words of your current Work in Progress (manuscript or portfolio) to share for critique. Contact Amy Thomas for location details.

Workshop: “Book Promotion 101"
St. Maximilian Kolbe Catholic Church, 5801 N. Kanan Road, Westlake Village, CA 91362
9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. 
Publicity consultant Bella Stander offers advice and exercises to help you best promote your book--and your writing career--with confidence. For published members or members holding a children’s book contract. $60.  A written critique of your bio (up to 250 words) OR website home page, additional $20. For details and registration information go to www.scbwisocal.org.

Tuesday Professional Series
Anthroposophical Society, 138 West 15th Street, New York
Topic TBA. $12/SCBWI members, $15/ nonmember. Payment accepted at the door; limited to 80 people.

Holiday Book Signing
Salt Lake City, UT
For more information, please contact Sydney Salter Husseman.