CREATING KIDS’ AND YA BOOKS
This Write Links will meeting will be a hybrid meeting with two guest international presenters.
To enable us to pay the presenters this will be a paid workshop. $15 for Book Links members (booking code required) or $25 general admission.
Venue: Face-to-face event at State Library fo Qld (Covid Vaccination required) or swap to Book here for ZOOM version
Date: Saturday 30 July 2022
Time: 12:30 - 2:00 Qld Time
The sessions will be followed by the usual Write Links meeting from 2:00pm - 3:00pm and Critique groups 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm.
Getting to know the USA market for children’s authors and illustrators
with the founders of kidlit411.com
To celebrate our 9th Write Links Birthday we have invited international guests, Elaine Kiely Kearns and Sylvia Liu, co-founders of popular website kidlit411.com to join us via Zoom for all things Kidlit!
These mighty ladies will share their path to publishing success and how to navigate the US market and how to hook those elusive agents.
KIDLIT411 founder, Elaine Kiely Kearns is a picture book author and also writes middle grade. Armed with a masters degree in Education and working from her home office, she spends her time perusing the internet for golden nuggets of information about children's writing and creating her own stories. Her debut picture book, Noah Noasaurus, illustrated by Colin Jack (Albert Whitman) came out in April 2019. She is represented by Linda Epstein of the Emerald City Literary Agency.
Sylvia Liu is the other half of Kidlit411. She writes middle grade (Hana Hsu and the Ghost Crab Nation, Razorbill Summer 2022; Manatee's Best Friend, Scholastic, Aug. 3, 2021) and picture books (A Morning with Grandpa, illustrated by Christina Forshay Lee; Low Books 2016). She is represented by Jennifer March Soloway of Andrea Brown Literary Agency.
ZOOM link in confirmation email.
Jenny Stubbs info@booklinks.org.au 0409 266 786