Summer 2018 Highlighter the SCBWI Mid-Atlantic Region’S Newsletter Highlighter Summer 2018 Inside This Issue
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Summer 2018 Highlighter The SCBWI Mid-Atlantic Region’s Newsletter Highlighter Summer 2018 Inside this issue... Inside Scoop: What Kinds of Books Excite a School Librarian?! page 13 Manuscript Under the Microscope: Copyediting The Highlighter is a quarterly newsletter published Kidlit411: page 15 by the Mid-Atlantic Region of the Society of Children’s A Creative Community Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). page 14 Information contained in it does not constitute an endorsement by SCBWI or the Mid-Atlantic SCBWI. For information about Mid-Atlantic SCBWI, go to www.midatlantic.scbwi.org. For information about SCBWI, go to www.scbwi.org or SCBWI, 4727 Wilshire Regular Features: Blvd., Suite 301, Los Angeles, CA 90010, 323-782-1010. Just a Few Words 3 SCBWI Mid-Atlantic Volunteers Upcoming Events 4 Regional Advisor: Ellen R. Braaf [email protected] Good News 6 Our Cover Illustrator: Illustrator Coordinator: Partnerships 8 Joan Waites [email protected] JOANIE STONE lives in In the News 9 Newsletter Co-Editors: Nokesville, VA with her Dionna Mann (copy/content) [email protected] Craft Tip for Writers 11 husband and young daughter. Susan VanHecke (copyeditor) [email protected] Tami Traylor (design/layout) [email protected] To Market 12 She has been busy illustrating a series of early-readers, Fall Conference Co-Chairs: Indie Bookstore Spotlight 17 Erin Teagan [email protected] various chapter books and Valerie Patterson [email protected] Grammar Tip 18 her debut picture book with Nonfiction Coordinator: Critique Group Spotlight 19 Penguin Random House, Marcie Finchum Atkins [email protected] which is set to come out PAL Coordinator: It’s a Wrap! 21 Lezlie Evans [email protected] next year. Author Spotlight 22 Critique Group Coordinator: www.joaniestone.com Terry Jennings [email protected] Meet Our Volunteers 23 Volunteer Coordinator: Poppy Parfomak [email protected] Roanoke Event Coordinator: Cyndy Unwin [email protected] Highlighter Submissions: Tidewater Event Coordinator: Have good news to share? Have you participated in a kidlit event? Would you like to write Vanessa Barger [email protected] for HIGHLIGHTER? Are you willing to be profiled herein? Please email Dionna Mann at [email protected]. She’s looking forward to hearing from you! If you are an illustrator, please think about submitting artwork (children’s illustration themes) for consideration for use on the cover or interior pages. Preferred formats include: tiff, eps, ai, pdf with a resolution of at least 150 dpi. Please email Tami Traylor at [email protected] with “Highlighter Illustration Submission” in the subject line. Next deadline for submissions: August 15, 2018 Highlighter Summer 2018 2 Just a Few Words By Ellen R. Braaf, Mid-Atlantic SCBWI Regional Advisor Dear Mid-Atlantic Members, Summer is zipping by. Registration for our fall conference retreats at Roslyn Center in Richmond, Terry Jennings for opens September 1. Tuition and fees remain the same running the Summer CritiqueFest, Vanessa Barger for the as last year. If finances prevent you from attending, I Tidewater area gatherings, and Sarah Hand for organizing encourage you to apply for the need-based Linda Wirkner the August 13, 2018, Member Get-Together in Memorial Scholarship. Details and a 2018 application can Richmond, VA. (For details: midatlantic.scbwi.org/events.) be found online under the Members Only tab. Log into the site to access this document. Completed applications Special thanks go to Anne Marie Pace who is stepping must be received no later than September 1, 2018. down as Charlottesville Area Event Coordinator after many Applications received after that date will not be considered. years of service. We’re grateful to Hannah Barnaby for Please follow directions carefully. taking over the reins. Read Hannah’s bio under the Meet Our Volunteers tab on our region’s homepage. We welcome Conference co-chairs Erin Teagan and Val Patterson your help with upcoming events. Please contact Poppy are working hard on the October 19 and 2o, 2018, event. (Liza) Parfomak ([email protected]) to volunteer. Joining keynote speaker Pat Cummings will be editors As always, if you want to organize a get-together in your Elise Howard (Editor/Publisher, Algonquin Young Readers), local area—or if you have suggestions for future programs, Racheal Stein (Editorial Associate, Clarion), Mekisha workshops, or speakers—do not hesitate to contact me. Telfer (Associate Editor, Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan); ([email protected]) Bonnie Bader (SCBWI Board of Advisors/author/former Associate Publisher, Frederick Warne and Editor-in-Chief, Finally, kudos to Leah Henderson (One Shadow on the Penguin Young Readers/Early Readers); agents/artists Wall) and Barbara Carney-Coston (To the Copper Country: representatives Cari Lamba (Jennifer De Chiara Literary Mihaela’s Journey) whose books were Crystal Kite Award Agency), Sarah Landis (Sterling Lord Literistic), Shadra finalists. Strickland (Painted Words); authors/illustrators Ginjer Clarke, Laura Elliott, Vashti Harrison, Jacqueline Jules, Good luck with your writing and illustrating. Have a fun, Debbie Levy, Jonathan Roth. Additional faculty TBA. safe, and productive summer, Please check the conference webpage for details and Best, updates. We’re grateful to our region’s talented and dedicated volunteers. Thanks go to Larry Fogel-Bublick, Cyndy Unwin, and Joan Waites for facilitating the May weekend Illustration: JENNIFER SMYTH-CHURCH, jennifersmythchurch.com Highlighter Summer 2018 3 Upcoming Events SCBWI EVENTS Mid-Atlantic Summer CritiqueFest The Mid-Atlantic SCBWI Summer CritiqueFest will be held on It’s that time! Tuesday, July 24, 2018, at the Reston Regional Library, from 6 to 9 p.m. This is a FREE opportunity for our region’s members Mid-Atlantic SCBWI Fall Conference to get feedback on a work-in-progress, to learn more about What time is it? It’s time to gear up for this year’s Mid- the critique group process, and perhaps to find a few kindred souls with whom to form a permanent critique group. Atlantic SCBWI Fall Conference, held on Saturday, October To register, please contact Terry Jennings, critique group 20, 2018, at the Holiday Inn Washington Dulles! Pat coordinator, at [email protected]. Put “CritiqueFest” in Cummings is this year’s keynote speaker. Pat is a member the subject line and note the following: your name, address, of SCBWI’s Board of Advisors and the creator of over genre, critiquing experience, and interest in finding/forming thirty books for children, including titles that have won a critique group. Be prepared to send in your manuscript! Terry will contact you to confirm registration and provide the Coretta Scott King Award, the Boston Globe-Horn additional details. Click HERE to learn more. Book Award, and the Orbis Pictus Award for nonfiction. Saturday’s all-day conference, held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., will Mid-Atlantic PAL: Dinner and Conversation include author presentations, agent-editor panels, a Q&A with Julie Scheina with editors, and breakout sessions for kidlit writers and illustrators across all genres. SCBWI Mid-Atlantic PAL members are invited to a dinner and conversation with former Little, Brown editor Julie Scheina On Friday, October 19, 2018, registered attendees may on Saturday, September 15, 2018, from 4 through 6:30 p.m. sign up for optional morning and afternoon craft-focused at Whitlow’s in Arlington, Virginia. The theme of Julie’s talk is Revision Without Tears: Strengthening Your Manuscript workshops. (Additional fees apply.) Friday evening activities Without Losing Your Vision. The fee for this program is include peer critiques and a dessert social for PAL members. $10.00 plus the cost of dinner. (Everyone is responsible for (Preregistration is required for these sessions.) On Saturday, purchasing their own food and drinks.) Pre-registration the hotel will provide registered attendees a continental is required. PAL members may contact Lezlie Evans at breakfast and boxed lunch. A limited number of optional [email protected] to learn more and to RSVP. Thanks, Patricia Kouttab, for your help in organizing this event! one-on-one critique consultations with faculty members will also be scheduled throughout the day. (Additional MD/ DE/WV Fall Focus Retreat fees apply.) Requirements and deadlines to register for professional critiques, faculty bios, registration instructions, Don’t miss this weekend retreat that delves deep and focuses and the conference schedule will be posted on our SCBWI on craft! The retreat will take place from Friday, September 21, through Sunday, September 23, 2018, at Nesiya Lodge, Events page, HERE. Registration opens September 1, 2018! Capital Retreat Center in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania. There will be three tracks: picture-book writing, young-adult/ middle-grade writing, and illustrating. The three industry writing exercises that show how varying perspectives can professionals taking the lead will be Sarah Jane Abbott, editor transform their own stories. Not only is this a FREE event, there at Simon and Schuster; Jim Hoover, art director at Viking; and will be refreshments! To register and to learn more, click HERE. Tiffany Liao, editor at Henry Holt Books for Young Readers. Retreat registration includes all meals, lodging, and group activities. Registration opened in April, so register now if you MD/DE/WV Webinar: Everything You Ever Wanted don’t want to miss this opportunity—HERE. to Know About Picture Research On Sunday, November 4, 2018, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. the MD/DE/WV Book Club Event: Point of View — MD/DE/WV SCBWI will be hosting a ninety-minute Who Should Tell Your Story? webinar—Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Picture Research—presented by author Sue Macy. Tune in to this On Saturday, November 3, 2018, from 3 to 4 p.m. at the Crofton webinar for answers to your burning questions about picture Community Library in Maryland, the MD/DE/WV SCBWI and research, along with tried-and-true tips for hunting down the Anne Arundel County Public Library will be hosting a images that will elevate your work.