HHaallff DDaayy IInntteennssiivveess Saturday, Nov. 1 Hahn School of Nursing, University of San Diego 9 AM - NOON: Picture Book Intensive with Andrea Welch Ten Essential Picture Book Elements—How does your Manuscript Measure Up This interactive workshop explores ten key elements editors look for in books for young children, including voice, pacing, tension, and emotional content—with lots of real-life examples of each. Participants will come away with a clear sense of what makes a picture book project irresistible to an editor. Andrea is a senior editor at Beach Lane Books, a San Diego-based imprint of Simon & Schuster. She has worked with a long list of authors and illustrators, including Douglas Florian, Robert Neubecker, and Angela DiTerlizzi. Recent books include the New York Times best-selling LMNO Peas by Keith Baker, Baby Bear Sees Blue by Ash- ley Wolff, and the Brownie & Pearl series by Cynthia Rylant, illustrated by Brian Biggs. Andrea acquires proj- ects for children of all ages—especially those that are filled with heart, humor, and irresistible characters. 1 – 4 PM: Middle Grade/Young Adult Intensive with Deborah Halverson Crafting a Youthful Narrative Voice and Sensibility in MG/YA Whether your narrator is your main or an all-knowing omniscient being, there are ways to convince young readers you understand them and their view of the world—and to hook’em good and hard in the process. This workshop looks at creating a narrative sensibil- ity that reflects the way teens and tweens think, and provides strategies for analyzing and re- vising your manuscript’s narrative . This workshop includes lecture with examples, group revision exercises, and individual revision exercises. Deborah edited books for Harcourt Children's Books for a decade before becoming the award-winning author of Writing For Dummies, Writing New Adult Fiction, the teen Honk If You Hate Me and Big Mouth, the picture book Letters to Santa. She is now a freelance editor, author, writing instructor, and the founder of the popular writers’ advice site DearEditor.com. Each attendee must bring three copies of the first five pages of their current MG or YA work-in-progress.

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Both Intensives (includes a $10 discount) ____ $80 Season Ticket Holder, SCBWI Member ____ $110 Nonmember with a Season Ticket ____ $90 SCBWI Member without a Season Ticket ____ $120 Nonmember One Intensive Only (please check one) ____ PB (morning) ____ MG/YA (afternoon) ____ $45 Season Ticket Holder, SCBWI Member ____ $60 Nonmember with a Season Ticket ____ $50 SCBWI Member without a Season Ticket ____ $65 Nonmember Please make checks payable to: SCBWI-San Diego (Registration also available online at www.sandiego.scbwi.org) Mail registration and check to: SCBWI – San Diego, P.O. Box 22300, San Diego, CA 92192-2300