Registration opens tomorrow for the SCBWI Winter Conference! You can follow the pre-conference excitement virtually via the #NY16SCBWI hashtag on Twitter as well as the SCBWI conference blog. Do read Jennifer Laughran’s recent “Ask The Agent” post about SCBWI-NYC. I’m excited about rooming with my friend Hazel Mitchell again this year. Hazel’s also my agency sister! Both of . . .
Just a few more weeks until NaNoWriMo!
Happy National Punctuation Day! Be kind to a comma today, and beware of misplaced apostrophe’s.
One of my favourite Neil Gaiman quotes: “Just write. Many writers have a vague hope that elves will come in the night and finish any stories for you for you. They won’t.” You can see the original video in which he offers advice for young writers:
Anyone who thinks that picture books are easy to write because they’re short needs to read this advice from my Simon & Schuster editor, Justin Chanda.