Those attending: Luneil, Karen, Ruthann, Suzy, Patty
and later joined by Helena.
There was some discussion about the meeting day of the week. Those present,
Luneil, Karen, Suzy, Ruthann and Patty were in agreement about the change from
Thursday to Wednesday. They also mentioned that they all thought it would be a
good idea to try and have the meeting on the FOURTH Wednesday in order to not
compete with Streamline. They thought it would eliminate some of the meeting
conflicts.There was further discussion about the need for
Jackie and Judy to appoint a regular substitute to run meetings when both of
them would not be present.
Ruthann brought in two books from her class with
Sharon Palmeri: The Everything Guilde
to Writing Children’s Books by Luke Wallin and The Business of Writing for Children by Aaron Shepard.
She talked about one of the exercises they had in class about taking a fairy
tale and changing it around and coming up with another ending. Several
suggestions were given to Ruthann about her class assignment of the fairy tale
switch.
Patty brought in SCWBI’s THE BOOK for others to leaf
through. It is a complete guide to children’s book writing, publishing, setting
up a blog, finding an editor etc. Karen mentioned all the benefits of belonging
to SCWBI.
Karen read the first chapter in her book, “Haunting
Mom” She explained how she has rewritten the book numerous times from several
points of view and was happy to settle upon the new method of dual dialogues
running at the same time.
Suzy read a short story “The Goblin Gathering” It
was suggested that she could easily turn this into a chapter book and several
ideas were given regarding those chapters.
Ruthann read “Changing Lives” a true story based on a box of puppies being
found on a train tracks. The story told
about the entire process of adopting animals.
Helena read an excellent poem about the “Delete Key”
It was a poetic argument for using the key more, eliminating not only errors
but the wrongs done to human beings through emails.
Patty asked if Karen would read the remainder of her
chapter about Francine because of a sore throat. It proved to be VERY useful to
hear it being read rather than ‘knowing’ what was written. Patty suggested we
might read each other’s in order to hear our work better.
Karen spoke more about “Ivy” and the work she has
had to do to promote her book. She talked about publishing rights, agents etc.
It was very informative. Karen will bring us all handouts from a class she took
at SCWBI’s last conference. She also mentioned that SCWBI has webinars that
have been very useful to her, regarding marketing, writing a picture book etc.
Webinars give great information without having to spend a lot of money on
conferences. She also said she will be on the panel at Printer’s Row Sale in
June.
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