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Book Banning: What YOU Can Do to Stop Censorship

21 Wednesday Sep 2022

Posted by Jessica Chrysler in Community Corner, Industry News

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American Library Association, banned books week, book banning, censorship, Dr. Tasslyn Magnusson, EveryLibrary Institute, SCBWI community, SCBWI members

The recent rash of documented complaints against specific books in schools and libraries have grown to an overwhelming number. Not only are the numbers concerning, but the complaints are also targeting books on the shelves of public libraries and bookstores all over the country. Books that have helped children learn more about themselves and others in the world are being removed from their hands. Books that have been created by authors who share the same identities of these kids are being censured into silence.

So what can we do about it?

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Write for Kite Tales!

29 Wednesday Jun 2022

Posted by Jessica Chrysler in Community Corner, Great News!, Toot Your Horn!

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authors, editors, illustrators, SCBWI community, SCBWI members, translators, writers

Have a topic you’d like to share with your fellow kidlit community? Want to share your process and inspire other writers or illustrators? Or maybe you have a list of incredible authors you’d like to interview but no idea where you can publish it? Let Kite Tales be your outlet for creative community and discussion!

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Publicity & Marketing: A Case Study – Part 5

18 Wednesday May 2022

Posted by Jessica Chrysler in Author's Perspective, Community Corner, PAL

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authors, Conventions, CoyCast, LA Comic Con, marketing, publicity, publishing, SCBWI members, SciFi.radio, WonderCon, writing tips

by R.S. Mellette

Me and Dad

This blog-umentary started out as an analysis of hiring a PR firm for a small-press book, and I promise we’ll get back to that, but to assess that value for the month of April I have to fill you in on some personal backstory. 

You might want to get a tissue.

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What to Take on Your Writer’s Journey: #1 Find Your Communities of Writers

08 Wednesday Dec 2021

Posted by Jessica Chrysler in Author's Perspective, Community Corner

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SCBWI community, SCBWI members, writing community, writing tips

by Rieko Mendez

Editor’s Note: This is the first of three installments on What to Take on Your Writer’s Journey. Look for the next article next month, that explores the question of “Why Must You Write This Book?” 

I write YA fiction and started writing seriously in the last five years. As a writer, there are craft books, workshops and conferences to hone your writing and I recommend using them. Here though, I want to share what I found crucial in my writing journey—what upped the game so to speak. 

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Write for Kite Tales!

16 Wednesday Jun 2021

Posted by Jessica Chrysler in Community Corner, Great News!, Toot Your Horn!

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editors, illustrators, SCBWI community, SCBWI members, translators, writers

Have a topic you’d like to share with your fellow kidlit community? Want to share your process and inspire other writers or illustrators? Or maybe you have a list of incredible authors you’d like to interview but no idea where you can publish it? Let Kite Tales be your outlet for creative community and discussion!

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10 Inspiring Kite Tales Quotes from 2020

30 Wednesday Dec 2020

Posted by Jessica Chrysler in Author's Perspective, Community Corner, Illustrator's Perspective

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Christian McKay Heidicker, Claire Annette Noland, Creative Life, Emma Trithart, Grace Lin, Harold Underdown, inspiration, Mary Ann Fraser, Monica Sagaser, Nancy Whitesides, quotes, Sherry Shahan

Photo by Tairon Fernandez on Pexels.com

As the year draws to a close, it’s always a good time to go back and reflect on the things that have moved and inspired us along the way. Especially in trying times, going back to the moments that brought light into our world can help us continue to be inspired and come up with new ideas that might not have occurred to us before.

Creating may have been tough for most of us this year, but we had many encouraging authors, editors, agents, and illustrators sharing with us their insights on how to keep going when the times get tough. Sometimes the reassurance that giving ourselves a break was indeed what was needed. And sometimes we just needed to let our stories come out on the page.

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Community Corner with Barbara A. Bagwell: How to Own the Name Writer

09 Wednesday Sep 2020

Posted by Farrha Khan in Community Corner, Poet's Perspective, SCBWI Summer Conference

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Barbara A. Bagwell, poetry, SCBWI Annual Summer Conference, SCBWI community, SCBWI members

When you dream something and envision it, goals drive you onwards.

At the encouragement of my childhood friend, I became an SCBWI member and attended the 2013 Los Angeles summer conference. Although I wrote marketing copy or non-fiction often at work, and had developed stories and poems for fun, I never considered myself a writer. In my misbelief, only English majors became authors. That was not me. I could not write like them.

Regardless, I attended the 2013 SCBWI Summer Conference.

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Community Corner with Monica Sagaser: SCBWI Critique Groups and Taking the Leap

26 Wednesday Aug 2020

Posted by Farrha Khan in Author's Perspective, Community Corner

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critique groups, critiques, Monica Sagaser, pandemic, SCBWI community, SCBWI members

At the start of quarantine, I checked in with my writer friends. All of them reported they simply couldn’t write or open a book. They berated themselves, something painfully easy for writers. The anguish of loss and uncertainty during this global pandemic was taking a toll on their creativity. Feeling no different, I was terrified of even glancing at my half-baked manuscript. I feared it would go unfinished.

I didn’t want that to happen, so I took a leap.

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Community Corner with Melody Mansfield: How Faeries (and SCBWI) Saved My Life

05 Wednesday Sep 2018

Posted by Sarah Parker-Lee in Author's Perspective, Community Corner

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A Bug Collection, cancer survival, Melody Mansfield, SCBWI community, SCBWI members, Sue Alexander Grant, The Life Stone of Singing Bird

When a rabbi-friend urged me to “share my story,” my heart sunk in my tumor-riddled chest. Did the world really need another story about breast cancer? And if I wasn’t willing to tackle this “important” topic, then why did I write, anyway? Continue reading →

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Community Corner with Susan Lendroth: From the Sue Alexander Grant to Publication

02 Wednesday May 2018

Posted by Sarah Parker-Lee in Community Corner, Contests & Grants, Writers' Retreat

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awards, published, publishing, SAG, SCBWI community, SCBWI events, SCBWI members, Susan Lendroth, Working Writer's Retreat

By Susan Lendroth

In 2010, I submitted the picture book Not So Loud, Natsumi! to the Sue Alexander Grant contest sponsored by SCBWI-LA. Little did I realize the winding road my story and I would take over the next eight years from contest entry to manuscript submission to eventual publication. Continue reading →

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