The second event in the London SCBWI's 2013 Professional Series happened last night, with a talk on making a living as a writer. In attendance were:

- Jane Clare, a multiple published author of books for younger children, including the award winning Gilbert The Great series and a number of series for Working Partners; and

- Lorna Fergusson, an ( Read more... )

The British Chapter of the SCBWI started it's 2013 Professional Series at St James's Church in Piccadilly with a focus on book marketing - what it means and how it's done.

In attendance were:

- Amber Caraveo, Editorial Director at Indigo, which is an imprint of Orion Publishing and publishes almost exclusively fiction.

- Jennifer McMenemy, a ( Read more... )

Following on from my post yesterday on the Writers' Roundtable IntensiveAgain, in line with SCBWI blogging policy I'm going to restrict my conference report to general comments about the flavour of the comments coming from panellists and speakers. #ny13scbwi is still active on Twitter, where a lot of other attendees have Tweeted about sessions and ( Read more... )

I got home on Wednesday from the 2013 SCBWI Winter Conference, which was held at the Grand Hyatt in New York. Apologies for the delay in getting this report up, but it's taken this long to get my thoughts together enough to produce a coherent report. I also apologise in advance for the quality of the photos - they're my own shots of things that ( Read more... )

Tuesday 6th March 2012 saw the latest in the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrator's London Professional Series being held at the Theodore Bullfrog Pub near Embankment.


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Following on from my post yesterday on the Marketing Intensive For Professional Writers, I've set out below the main points that I took away from the main conference itself, which was an incredibly well organised event (and I really must repeat my thanks to the organisers who did a bang up job ( Read more... )

I got home yesterday from the SCBWI's winter conference, which was held at the Grand Hyatt in New York ( Read more... )

The British Chapter of the Society of Children's Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) started its 2012 Professional Series with a bang and a Commissioning Editors Event at which 4 commissioning editors gave briefings about their respective publishing houses and answered questions from those of us in attendance.


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I spent the bank holiday weekend at the SCBWI Retreat in Dunford House in West Sussex and it was excellent fun. Organised by Sue Hyams, it had sessions by the critically acclaimed Candy Gourlay, the very entertaining Tommy Donbavand and the highly respected Janetta Otter-Barry from Frances Lincoln Books books but perhaps most importantly, it also ( Read more... )

It's been a strange old week, all things considered and yesterday was a totally mad day in which certain members of the public sector proved themselves to be madder than a bunch of badgers in a scratchy bag made of insanity. I shall say no more but it does make you realise that there are some people in the public sector who should be forcibly ( Read more... )