Conference planning has taken over my life.
I have no topics of conversation.
My family are watching the gibbering wreck become more gibbery....as we get into the sharp end of getting this National Conference of Children’s Writers and Illustrators off the ground. I am awake at 3am worrying about little details....and big ones....I have written nothing but conference related material since February.
But I feel proud of what we have achieved and very soon you will get a chance to see what has been keeping me awake...greying my hair and giving me a nervous twitch...hopefully after the announcement of the programme and registration I will look less manic and go back to writing fiction.
In the meantime the HUGE Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators conference begins taking registrations tomorrow for their MASSIVE 4 day conference in L.A. If you have a spare three thousand NZ dollars....not to mention airfares and food...
Imagine organising this...
Imagine organising this...
maureen
co convenor of Spinning Gold - New Zealand Conference of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators....gibbering quietly in a corner....(how come my other co convenor who is in the middle of work deadlines, tv appearences and a major wow creation looks so good....what are you on Fifi and how come you didn't slip me any......)
pic is the logo of this years American Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Conference(August 7-10)
4 comments:
oh its easy... I just spend a kings ransom on the hair...
I notice you didn't add spirits to that comment....maybe that's where I'm going wrong.....
Part of me dreams of going to the LA conference, part of me is afraid at the thought. All of me is happy at the prospect of attending the Spinning Gold Conference. Thank you for toiling away on this for us
Melinda, I am doing this because like you I dream of going to the
L A conference....and if you look carefully when the programme is out coughnextweekcough you will see lots of little indicators of this in how the spinning gold conference has been put together...sneaky huh..
One day we will storm the LA conference together you as the hotshot down under author of the Were Nana franchise, me as the living personification of the Werenana nightmare.....
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