This week I sat down with a bunch of committed writing
friends to start to pull together four months of creative ideas of what to
include in our National Conference of Children’s Writers and Illustrators 2015.
Planning a good conference takes time and much thought. My guiding principal is
IT IS A WORKING CONFERENCE. Attendees must get knowledge out of it for their
money. It is a big chunk of cash and writing time that poorly paid writers and
illustrators have to give up so every dollar needs to really be worth it.
Kameron Hurley has a guest post on Terribleminds which is
the must read post of the week. (year) Kameron outlines the need for writers to
think business. These are some of the issues I would like to explore at the
conference.
Hugh Howey takes a hard look at Barnes and Nobel
booksellers. What they are doing wrong and will it destroy them. This was
echoed yesterday in a comment from one of my writing friends about New
Zealand’s biggest book seller chain.
Passive Guy takes a look at agency clauses in contracts.
This is an interesting post about tricky legalese in contracts.
The Futurebook team have a twitter chat every week and this last week they were looking at Metadata. How can you find out what you need to
find out... and why is it so important.
Jon Bard takes a look at the KDP Kids Books app that Amazon
released last week.
Lauren Sapala has the two most important things writersneed.
In the Craft Section,
How to write for the 21st century (pet peeves
from an agent)
In the Marketing Section,
To Finish,
Six years on from the first conference we organized and issues
we never thought of then are now on the table. Storytelling has different
wrappers now.
Gaming companies need story content too. This week one of my
writing friends was asking for some help with a project her company was working
on. They had the idea, they had the graphics, they just needed the story to go
with them. Kevin Spacey looks at how storytelling has changed in the shows he has been in.
maureen
Sorry late again… Recovery one step forward two steps back...
Wouldn’t this be a cool conference bag?
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Thank you Maureen for the trouble you take to help other authors.
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