Notes from the Slush Pile is reportage from the front line - news, talks, essays, workshops and conferences on children's writing.
By Candy Gourlay
Nov 23 British SCBWI's Writer's and Illustrator's Day, Winchester, UK
April 20 Brighton Children's Book Festival, Brighton, UK
March 29-30 SCBWI Before-Bologna Conference, Bologna, italy
March 8 Scattered Authors Society, Coventry, UK
Freebie Alert! Download these web survival tools that I helpfully compiled for my 2007 talk Who’s Afraid of the World Wide Web – on how authors can survive the New Realities of the Internet.
The excellent Anita Loughrey interviewed me in anticipation of my talk in Bologna and here it is on the Cynsations blog.
Undiscovered Voices, the ground-breaking anthology published by British SCBWI in association with Working Partners is out! My novel Ugly City won a place in the anthology at last year's competition. Buy the anthology.
My cartoon is featured on the cover of Simon Morse's
The Pregnant Guy: Journey to the Center of the Birth.
Simon found my unpublished pregnancy cartoon collection Who Are You And Why Are You Standing On My Bladder on my homepage.
Simon's book answers previously neglected issues that affect expectant fathers such as "Am I getting fat?".
All pregnant fathers must buy this book - it will be a nice thing to read while sleeping on the couch once the baby is born.
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3 Comments:
Great post, Candy, some really useful information - but it's scary how much tougher the children's market keeps getting. I find the whole agented/unagented thing very catch-22 - you can't get to certain publishers without an agent, but you can't get to agents without a contract. Tough world. Perseverance and sheer dumb stubborness pays, I suppose :-)
Speaking as one of those shifty wannabe authors, I think you've done a terrific job of rounding up what was said. Very useful post, Candy. I read stuff here I'd forgotten she'd said!
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Thanks Attylah, Wilf. The bit about the unforgiving market is very dispiriting, especially if you've been slogging away for years. But it was a real education listening to Sarah critique our work. You really get a sense of how high the bar is and she made you want to keep going, if only so that you could get a chance to have someone like her edit your work.
I guess we've got to try to find ways to add to our value as potential authors - through our blogs perhaps?
Thanks for reading!
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