first conference

I attended my first writing conference since starting to work on writing children's stories about a year and a half ago. I went to the SCBWI Western/Central Upstate NY conference in Syracuse, NY. I enjoyed hearing from an author, a husband and wife illustrating team, and an editor from Charlesbridge.

Here were my highlights:

Hearing from some really experienced people in the field of children's books

Having an editor say it was okay if any of us wanted to submit 1 or 2 manuscripts directly to her

Learning a lot about research for writing non-fiction books should I decide to do that

Learning more about cover letter writing

Having my first page read by the editor from Charlesbridge

Talking to the editor from Charlesbridge and having her say I could send my manuscript for my story The Princess and the Ugly Dress in to her directly