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About The Retreat
Traditional models of promotion are changing at the speed of light. Do you feel as if your online efforts at promotion are a black-hole of time? Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, JacketFlap – is your head filled with a cosmic soup of social networking terms? It’s time to create a promotional plan that works for you without sacrificing the time you spend creating stories.
During this weekend, you’ll find out more about changes in the publishing industry and their effect on the way children’s authors & illustrators do business. You’ll have hands-on experiences to help you create an action plan and acquire tools for the cyber-promotional side of your publishing career. Topics will include blogs, social networking sites, virtual school visits, podcasts and more.
Hands-on Activities
This weekend is about actually trying out new tools and going home with a jump-start (or boost) to your cyber-presence. Bring your laptop and get ready to roll!
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Rate
Double room: $395 per person. Single room: $435. Commuter rate $295. Dormitory accommodations. Shared bathrooms. MEALS INCLUDED FOR ALL.
Optional: Cyber-Presence Critique (additional $40)
Those who sign up for this option will receive a written critique and have a 10-minute face-to-face meeting with Greg Pincus during the course of the weekend.
He will offer an analysis of your cyber presence -- of where you stand today, and suggestions on how you might improve.
Registration
Any SCBWI member who has been published or who holds a contract for an
upcoming children’s trade book can register. Registration
deadline: Registration form and payment must be postmarked by
December 21, 2009. Space limited.
Refund Policy
A $50 processing charge will be applied to all cancellations. No refunds after December 31, 2009.
Click
Here to Register
Questions?
Contact Regional Advisor Alexis O'Neill at: CLICK
HERE to e-mail Alexis
Featured Presenters
HAROLD UNDERDOWN
ANASTASIA SUEN
LISA YEE
GREG PINCUS
Biographies (in alphabetical order)
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GREG PINCUS
Greg Pincus is a poet, novelist, screenwriter, volunteer elementary school librarian, and social media consultant. He's also a blogger, writing about children's literature and poetry at GottaBook (gottabook.blogspot.com) and the social web at The Happy Accident (www.thehappyaccident.net). Through the wonders of social media, he's sold poetry, helped himself land a book deal, ended up in the New York Times, the Washington Post, School Library Journal (multiple times), and many other interesting places… and also made friends and gotten free cookies on more than one occasion!
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ANASTASIA SUEN
Anastasia Suen has been online since the 90s, when Usenet forums and MIRC were the only way to communicate. As technology evolved, she has moderated Yahoo Groups and taught both university classes and private workshops online. Suen started blogging in 2005 and has had over a dozen blogs on LiveJournal, Typepad, Blogger, Wordpress, and Twitter, including a gig with Scholastic Teacher. A category organizer for the CYBILS (Children's and Young Adult Blogger's Literary Awards), this author of 115 books also does virtual school visits on Skype. You can find her at http://www.asuen.com. |
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HAROLD UNDERDOWN
Harold Underdown is a freelance editorial consultant. He has worked at Macmillan, Orchard, Charlesbridge, and ipicturebooks (a children's ebook publisher startup during the dotcom era).
He has experience in trade, ebook, and educational publishing. Among the trade books he has edited are Yumi Heo's One Afternoon, Larry Pringle's and Bob Marstall's An Extraordinary Life, Lisa Rowe Fraustino's Ash, Grace Lin's The Ugly Vegetables, and Sneed Collard's and Michael Rothman's The Forest in the Clouds.
At ipicturebooks, he helped to develop early ebook versions of picture books and novels, and novelties such as a hyperlinked "choose your own adventure" story based on the first Shrek movie. He is also the editor for the Young Patriots Series, published by Patria Press.
Harold enjoys teaching and, in that role, wrote The Complete Idiot's Guide to Children's Book Publishing, now in its third edition. He founded and runs "The Purple Crayon," a respected web site with information about the children's publishing world at www.underdown.org. He teaches an online class focusing on revision with Eileen Robinson, and he speaks and gives workshops at conferences, including the SCBWI's national conferences in LA and NY, and smaller conferences all over the country. |
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LISA YEE
Out of over 1,000 blogs, The Lisa Yee Blog is listed as one of the Top 10 Publishing Blogs according to Jacketflap. Lisa has taught blogging at the SCBWI Summer Conference and has been a featured panelist on blogging at the NCTE Conference in Philadelphia. Her blogs have led to interviews with Newsweek and NPR, and, because she blogs about her stuffed animal “Peepy,” the PR Department of Just Born (manufacturer of Peeps) recently invited Lisa and Peepy as VIP guests to their flagship store grand opening.
Lisa’s latest book is Bobby vs. Girls (Accidentally). Others include Millicent Min, Girl Genius, which won the Sid Fleischman Humor Award, and her YA debut Absolutely Maybe. A Thurber House Children’s Writer-in-Residence, Lisa’s other accolades include Publishers Weekly Flying Start, USA TODAY Critics’ Top Pick, and Fox Sports Network American in Focus. Visit Lisa at www.lisayee.com or check out her blog at lisayee.livejournal.com.
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