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In typical fashion, the new year kicks off conversations about goals and fears-particularly the fear of not achieving said goals. I imagine this to be true for the majority of folks that breath, but I KNOW its a hot topic for writers. Writing and selling books is like asking ( Read more... )

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Another successful SCBWI Eastern PA Pocono Mt. Retreat! Every time I attend this conference there is something special going on. This year I was thrilled to spend the weekend with Laurie Halse Anderson and to bring a friend to her first writing conference, but more about that ( Read more... )

Originally published at Kimberly Sabatini. You can comment here or there.

I’m heading off the the Eastern PA SCBWI Pocono Mountain Retreat today!!!! So much fun-I love this conference. I’ve been going for years. It’s an intimate conference that has a professional, yet homey feel. It all has a nice mix of workshops that inspire and provide craft. And ( Read more... )

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This is it!  I'm ready to finish this up and move on.  Fasten your seat belts and get ready for your final SCBWI LA Conference installment!

This is not John Green.  Not a single one.


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It's Friday afternoon at the SCBWI LA 40th Anniversary Conference and we have...


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I'm back and gratefully a little smarter than I was in Part 1 and 2 of this adventure. When I left off,  I'd just joined SCBWI and even more shocking--I'd signed up for the SCBWI 2007 Eastern NY Conference.  I'm not sure what possessed me, I'm not super spontaneous on a normal day, but to make it even more of a head scratcher--the conference was on ( Read more... )

I recently ran across an interesting thread on Verla Kay's Children's Writers and Illustrators Message Board aka "The Blue Boards"http://www.verlakay.com/boards/index.php?topic=36212.0 The big discussion was about where to blog.

Back when I originally sought out a place to blog, I was torn between Blogger and Livejournal and fiddled around with ( Read more... )

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My weirdness knows no bounds. This is an over arching statement applying to me as a whole, but it also holds true in the microcosm of my writing. For those of you who have been following my progress of writing my YA novel, you'll remember that my first two big miles stones were ( Read more... )