Upcoming Events:
Topics or dates may change to best suit our members'
needs.
Participation
Workshop
and
Agents
Day Pitch Practice
Saturday, August 9, 2008
10
a.m. to 4 p.m.
Antioch Library
Please bring a sack lunch and drinks
From
10 am to 12:30 pm, learn how JWKC works, how you can work for it, and how you can help it work for you. From 1 pm to 4 pm
we'll polish our pitches and run a First Pages dress rehearsal for Agents Day on Sept. 20 (information below).
The
workshop is free but please pre-register by August 5 by emailing Colleen Cook at crcook@kc.rr.com. If you only want to attend part of the day, just let us know! Any questions? Just drop Colleen an email.
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Agents Day
with Juvenile Writers of Kansas City
September 20, 2008
9 am to 4:30 pm
Kansas City Public
Library
14 West 10th Street, Kansas City, MO 64105
For information and directions, please visit
http://www.kclibrary.org/about/locations.cfm?locID=2
Join us for Agents Day! We’ll
welcome three agents to speak about the children’s book market, answer questions, and take individual appointments.
Tina Dubois Wexler, from International
Creative Management, will speak on “All About Agents.” In today’s marketplace,
it has become increasingly difficult to find publishing houses that accept unsolicited material; most editors
will ask that you secure representation first and then submit through your agent. But
is an agent right for you? And how do you get one? Or, now that you have one, what happens next?
Linda Pratt, from the
Sheldon Fogelman Agency, will teach the basics of “Hopscotch: Making it
Through the Course as a Children’s Book Author One Square at a Time.” You’ve
landed on the first square by deciding to write for children. How do you keep
your balance, avoid the lines, and keep moving forward to the next squares in your writing career? This session will address key questions that one agent asks in helping her authors create a career plan. It will touch upon writing in various genres, industry conditions, assessing one’s
own goals and needs, among other things.
Jennifer DeChiara of the Jennifer DeChiara
Literary Agency, speaks regularly to writers about writing query letters, book proposals, and picture books, and will be on
hand to share her expertise.
The afternoon features two sessions:
In the panel discussion “Building an Identity,” agents will discuss how writers can create a professional identity
and use it as a marketing tool. And, back by popular demand, our “First Page” critique session will let attendees
have the first page of a manuscript read aloud and critiqued by the panel of agents.
Find out more about our guest
agents here
Schedule:
8:30 Registration opens
9:00 Welcome
9:15 Tina Dubois Wexler
10:00 Linda Pratt
10:45 Break
11:00 Jennifer DeChiara
11:45 Follow-up questions
12:00 Lunch
1:00 “First pages” critique session
2:15 “Building an Identity” panel discussion
3:00 Meet-n-greet
4:00 Agents Day ends. Thank you for joining us!
Member registration begins April
30, and general registration on May 15.
Earlybird registration (by June
30): JWKC Member: $90. Non-member: $100.
After June 30, member cost is
$100; non-member $110.
Click here to print out a registration form:
Questions? Email DianeFrook@gmail.com
Thanks
to all who joined us for Editors Day!
