Dear Alison and friends, It's Friday. It's March 10. It's snowing outside, and I can't stop thinking about spring. I blame that warm spell a few days ago. I love the snow. You know I do, but that beautiful weather was a tease, a terrible, awful tease. Actually worse than a tease. It was a torment, but there's hope. In a little over 36 hours, we enter Daylight Savings. In less than two weeks, it will officially be Spring (whether Mother Nature likes it or not), and a few days after that the Spring Writing Workshop and Conference season begins. UPCOMING SPRING WRITING WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE CALENDAR: March 25th : (You and I will be presenting at this one! SUPER CHEAP AND GREAT DEAL!!) THINK LIKE A WRITER! AN IMMERSION IN WRITING AND LITERATURE WITH AUTHORS AND ILLUSTRATORS The University of Scranton at The Kane Forum in Edward R. Leahy, Jr. Hall Begins with registration at 8:00am and ends at 2:00pm Earn 5 ACT 48 hours • Discov...
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Dear Alison, Last weekend, we spent all our waking hours absorbing the amazing energy of the NY SCBWI Conference. William Joyce kicked off the #NY16SCBWI Conference Saturday morning with his keynote: Books are Like the Ice Cream Sandwich: How New Technology Doesn't Change Much of Anything but it's all Kinda Cool." Any speech revolving around an ice cream sandwich is going to peak my interest, and he did not disappoint. I knew William Joyce was a gifted author illustrator--I just never realized how HUGELY talented he is. Check out his extensive book collection: And I hate to admit it, but I didn't realize the movie, The Rise of the Guardians, was based on his book, Jack Frost . It's surprising that when the movie came out no one capitalized on his book--or at least I didn't notice it. And the art, oh Alison, the art in JACK FROST is amazing. Joyce's well-known bold characters bu...