Featured Illustrator - Rebecca Gerlings
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This month's Featured Illustrator is Rebecca Gerlings . After many years' experience as an editor in children's publishing, Re...
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Network News: London
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Welcome Karen and Tania We are very excited in the networks team about the appointment of our two new London Network Organisers, Karen ...
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Troll Hell: do you keep quiet or fight back against social media nasties?
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By Candy Gourlay ( @candygourlay ) Troll Hell panel: Nick Cross, SCBWI blog network editor; Nicole Burstein, author of Othergirl; and L...
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Rowena House interviews Kathryn Aalto.
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@kathrynaalto Landscape designer and historian, Kathryn Aalto , has created an “amiable field guide” to the Hundred Acre Wood, where ...
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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 28th July
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Logo by Melany Pietersen I'm back, although you may not have noticed I was missing (given that K.M. Lockwood did such a great job...
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Social Media for SCBWI: Twitter for Writers (and Illustrators)
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On Twitter we get excited if someone follows us. In real life we get really scared and run away. ― Anonymous
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Out of the quicksand by Jennifer Burkinshaw
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Jennifer Burkinshaw entered our April Slush Pile Challenge set by Julia Churchill (A.M. Heath). Julia asked for a paragraph or tw...
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Margaret Carey Scholarship ~ apply now!
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Desperate to come to the annual SCBWI conference in November but resources are tight? Then the Margaret Carey Scholarship might be for you...
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Mervyn Peake on illustrating fiction
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In 1947 the author and illustrator Mervyn Peake gave two presentations on BBC Radio, in which he took the opportunity to share his though...
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Creating Characters – From Inception to Compelling Protagonists
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Illustration: Paul Morton By Kate Walker Books are crammed with characters, drawing readers into their worlds and emotions. But how do...
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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 21st July
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Logo by Melany Pietersen Apologies if you were expecting Nick Cross - you get me today. I've taken the opportunity to indulge ...
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Part of it
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The creative life can seem like tackling one hill climb after another. Some times you can be trudging, almost crawling, up the steep...
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Weave it in
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I'm not talking about hair-dos. I'm talking about unconscious creativity. The point where you find yourself sitting down to write,...
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Industry Insiders event report
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For illustrators who may have missed it last week, here once more is Sarah Underwood 's report of the recent SCBWI Professional Serie...
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Event Report - Manchester Children's Book Festival Panel
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MCBF Panel Event On 26 June the North West branch of SCBWI hosted a panel event at Manchester Metropolitan University as part of the Man...
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Proofreading Tips: Book Review
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Accidence Will Happen: The non-pedantic guide to English usage Summer’s here – how about some holiday reading? Published recently by ...
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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 14th July
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Logo by Melany Pietersen Welcome to another Blog Break, and I've got a diverse palette of subjects for you: dreams, prizes, Scott...
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Ask a Picture Book Editor
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A picture book story - from start to finish! For July’s blog, we’re going to take you on the journey of the birth of a picture book – ...
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Sheddings
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I am a collector of things. Of things deposited along the edges, on shorelines and footpaths. Stuff left behind by the sea, or by creature...
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Mudpie Mo, by Anna Violet
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_______________________________________________ Anna Violet is a freelance author-illustrator based in Manchester. Check her p...
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Industry Insiders - Event Report
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I recently attended a talk at the Savoy Tup, just off the Strand in London, for the first of what I hope will be a long series of ...
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Writers' Minds - Keris Stainton
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Image Credit: Whizzy Barr Ever wondered what makes a writer tick? What cogs of creativity whirr to bring stories to life? We take a peek...
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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 7th July
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Logo by Melany Pietersen You may be lucky to read this at all, as my internet connection seems to be having a "technical moment....
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Writers and diaries
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Nulla dies sine linea. No day without a line. –Pliny the Elder, quoting the ancient Greek artist Apelles
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Featured Illustrator: Deborah Allwright
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This month's featured artist is London based illustrator Deborah Allwright . Since her debut book commission Grunter , Debbie has esta...
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The Debut Author Series: Ruth Fitzgerald
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Nicky Schmidt The Learning Curve - Insights from Debut Authors For many the road to publication is long and fraught. For others, a p...
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