What a lovely day!

We had a lovely time yesterday. There was food, fizz, cake and chatter - people meeting for the first time or catching up in real life after an age!   It was so lovely to see everyone and especially to welcome Angela Cerrito, SCBWI’s Assistant International Advisor…
In my back garden.
Wow.





Here we are…

 Cake made by my lovely girl, @daisycarr.

The Selfie

If you missed last week we had:

• The second brilliant Ask a Picture Book Editor - what makes a good subject for a picture book?
• Brilliant SCBWI bloggers Blog Breaking with Nick
• Really good Proofreading Tips on what to bear in mind when choosing titles and character names from Catriona
• Beautiful art produced on the the recent Manchester Sketchcrawl from Anna
• And we celebrated with the lovely Christina Banach on her debut YA novel Minty published by Three Hares Books.

 Next week look out for:

• Wednesday, author Jonathan Emmet on his new venture to get more authors into more schools more easily.
• Thursday, a new monthly preview of the following month's events from our SCBWI BI events team. First up is our excellent new ARA Steph Macgregor with what's happening in May.
• Friday, new W&P contributor and UV2014 honorary mention, Heather Chapman on Medieval illuminations
• Saturday, we're celebrating with W&P Competitions Editor, Chitra Soundar (April's Slushpile Challenge is here) 

Plus...

MONDAY 14th April sees our first podcast go live!We are delighted to welcome Liz Cross, Head of Publishing, Children's, Oxford University Press to Words & Pictures! She was interviewed by award winning broadcast journalist and SCBWI member Catherine Jacob on March 12th 2014

And a very important reminder:

Don't forget to vote for your favourite Crystal Kite Nominee. Log in to your home page on scbwi.org and vote from there. First round of voting closes Monday 14th April.

Have a great week!

Jan Carr

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Jan Carr is the editor of Words & Pictures. Her fiction is all over the place, she blogs occasionally and loves to write in magenta. You can contact her at editor@britishscbwi.org.