Excitement is Building

Here on the sofa at W&P Towers, excitement is building as we're about to enter our conference month. Yes folks this year the 2014 conference fringe ( The Friday Night Critique) is on Friday October 31st, spooky!


So just to make sure you've missed NOTHING and before I hand over to Natascha for a From Your RA Conference Special, here's a quick recap of last week...

• In advance of the next London Masterclass Writing Picture Books Alison interviewed Pippa Goodhart
• Nick was Blogtastic
• Tom Witcomb told us everything we need to know in his Agent Confidential
• Chitra reported on the last London masterclass Primary School Visits
• There was another rib-tickling ProCATsination from Jion
• And hooray for the Margaret Carey Scholarship winners and honorary mentions

Next week, to round off our month of Motivation & Challenge Sue Hyams writes about how to manage that very justifiable distraction from writing  - research. We have the first of our pre-conference posts and if all goes to plan the first of our conference interviews with our illustrator keynote speaker the wonderful Nick Butterworth, ladies and gentlemen!

Before I go a quick job advert:

We are looking for a new EVENTS EDITOR - if you'd like to join the Words & Pictures Team and think you can co-ordinate our coverage of the fantastic events members organise for us please do get in touch: editor @britishscbwi.org

Have fun!

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.