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Get Published! Seminar: An Inside Look at Writing, Illustrating and Publishing Children’s Books
Presented by the Canadian Children's Book Centre
What does it take to become a best-selling children's author or illustrator? What are children’s publishers looking for? How do booksellers pick the books they sell?
On September 20, 2008 in Toronto, three panels of experts will discuss how children’s books are written and illustrated, edited and selected for publication and sale in Canada and answer participants’ questions.
CREATORS SHARE THEIR EXPERIENCE
Best-selling authors Barbara Greenwood and Jo Ellen Bogart, and award-winning illustrator Ruth Ohi talk about the creative process and how their careers took off.
PUBLISHERS TELL ALL
Sheila Barry (Editor-in-Chief, Kids Can Press), Lynne Missen (Executive Editor, Children’s Books, HarperCollins Canada) and Alison Morgan (Director of Sales and Marketing, Tundra Books) discuss the qualities that make for an outstanding manuscript.
BOOKSELLERS REVEAL THE INs AND OUTs OF BOOKSELLING
Highly successful wholesaler and retailer Maria Martella, Tinlids owner, and retired bookseller Lynne Kenny Scott, explain how they decide which books to showcase in their stores.
WHEN: Saturday, September 20, 2008
9:00am to 12:00pm
WHERE: Tinlids Inc. (www.tinlids.ca)
130 Martin Ross Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
COST: $125 per participant. Registration is limited. (Each participant will receive a copy of the CCBC’s best-seller, Get Published: The Writing for Children Kit.)
Register by phone at 416.665.5663, by fax at 416.665.0775 or through email at info@tinlids.ca.
All proceeds go to the Canadian Children's Book Centre (www.bookcentre.ca), a national, not-for-profit organization founded in 1976 to encourage, promote and support the reading, writing andillustrating of Canadian books for young readers. The CCBC helps teachers, librarians, booksellers and parents select the very best for young readers.
Presented by the Canadian Children's Book Centre
What does it take to become a best-selling children's author or illustrator? What are children’s publishers looking for? How do booksellers pick the books they sell?
On September 20, 2008 in Toronto, three panels of experts will discuss how children’s books are written and illustrated, edited and selected for publication and sale in Canada and answer participants’ questions.
CREATORS SHARE THEIR EXPERIENCE
Best-selling authors Barbara Greenwood and Jo Ellen Bogart, and award-winning illustrator Ruth Ohi talk about the creative process and how their careers took off.
PUBLISHERS TELL ALL
Sheila Barry (Editor-in-Chief, Kids Can Press), Lynne Missen (Executive Editor, Children’s Books, HarperCollins Canada) and Alison Morgan (Director of Sales and Marketing, Tundra Books) discuss the qualities that make for an outstanding manuscript.
BOOKSELLERS REVEAL THE INs AND OUTs OF BOOKSELLING
Highly successful wholesaler and retailer Maria Martella, Tinlids owner, and retired bookseller Lynne Kenny Scott, explain how they decide which books to showcase in their stores.
WHEN: Saturday, September 20, 2008
9:00am to 12:00pm
WHERE: Tinlids Inc. (www.tinlids.ca)
130 Martin Ross Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
COST: $125 per participant. Registration is limited. (Each participant will receive a copy of the CCBC’s best-seller, Get Published: The Writing for Children Kit.)
Register by phone at 416.665.5663, by fax at 416.665.0775 or through email at info@tinlids.ca.
All proceeds go to the Canadian Children's Book Centre (www.bookcentre.ca), a national, not-for-profit organization founded in 1976 to encourage, promote and support the reading, writing andillustrating of Canadian books for young readers. The CCBC helps teachers, librarians, booksellers and parents select the very best for young readers.