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Dear Alison, Picture it: the first week of June 2013. The sun shining, the lilacs blooming, and me, a young writer armed with a suitcase full of new clothes, two young adult manuscripts, shiny and new and ready to be published, (READ: naive and nowhere near ready to be published), and a burning desire to learn more about the revision process from two revision masters, Harold Underdown and Eileen Robinson at the Highlights Foundation Revision Retreat.  I should mention the second suitcase I packed. The one filled with balled nerves, reservations, and self-doubt brought on by the handful of rejections I received from agents. (READ AGAIN: naive and nowhere near ready to be published.)  It was my first visit to the Highlights Foundation, my first experience as a writer attending a writing workshop, my first time away from my three kids, my first time spending a week working on my dream since my husband and I started our family. A week filled with firsts... My first impress...

SCBWI members, writing is a lonely business and just when you think you're ready to submit or you do submit, it's actually time to work with an editor. Here's an amazing opportunity for you. Harold Underdown, a well known and respected Editor and SCBWI member, extended the Early Bird Registration for his next workshop. CHECK IT OUT! Editing Without an Editor Lancaster, PA: July 19, 2014 at the Lancaster Public Library Do you have a children's or YA manuscript--picture book, novel, or nonfiction--that needs work? Do you wish you could learn techniques that would help you revise not only this manuscript, but future ones? Then come to the KBR "Editing without an Editor" workshop. Learn how to revise like an editor from a children's book editor. We have drawn on the methods we've used in editing manuscripts while working with publishers, with individual clients, and in the online Kid's Book Revisions class to create this comprehensive workshop. ...

Let Harold Underdown provide you with the tools you need to take your manuscript to the next level!! The man knows his STUFF!! Here's the link in case you want to go right to the site : http://www.kidsbookrevisions.com/editing-without-an-editor-lancaster-2014.htm Editing Without an Editor Lancaster, PA: July 19, 2014 at the Lancaster Public Library Do you have a children's or YA manuscript--picture book, novel, or nonfiction--that needs work? Do you wish you could learn techniques that would help you revise not only this manuscript, but future ones? Then come to the KBR "Editing without an Editor" workshop. Learn how to revise like an editor from a children's book editor. We have drawn on the methods we've used in editing manuscripts while working with publishers, with individual clients, and in the online Kid's Book Revisions class to create this comprehensive workshop. We begin by creating an overall framework, comparing "reader respon...