Date/Time
Date(s) - 07/28/2022
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Category(ies)
SCBWI Members: $15; Non-members: $25
Includes live webinar and 30 days of recording access.
Optional written critiques following webinar:
- Picture book dummy critique: $70.00
- Portfolio Critique (up to 15 images): $70.00
About the webinar:
Summer Springboard for Illustrators 2022 winds up with a guide to presentation skills and book event planning.
Join YA author/book launch strategist, Caroline Leech, and her guests, author/illustrators Emma Virján and Marissa Valdez, as they introduce you to some exciting strategies for presenting yourself as a professional illustrator. They’ll also share their top tips on how to plan the most effective and, above all, fun book launch events, both online and in-person. They’ll be covering useful topics such as:
About the Presenters:
Caroline Leech is a Scottish/Texan writer, editor and coach, and has been writing professionally for over three decades. Before moving to the USA, she was a Press & PR consultant and trainer in strategic press, media and presentation skills, working with performing and literary arts companies and arts trade organizations across the United Kingdom. Once in Houston, she began to write fiction, and her YA historical novels, WAIT FOR ME (2017) and IN ANOTHER TIME (2018) were published in the US and the UK by Harper Collins. She currently has her first women’s fiction manuscript out on submission. She founded the Inspiring Houston Women blog, serves on the advisory board of Inprint, Houston’s leading literary non-profit organization, and acts as communications consultant for Austin Opera. She has also continued to write feature articles on the performing arts for a number of newspapers and magazines in the US and UK. Throughout her time in Texas, she has been designing and presenting workshops on creative writing craft, social media strategy, and on interview and presentation skills for individuals and organizations such as SCBWI, Houston Grand Opera, Rice University School of Literacy and Culture, as well as schools in Houston ISD and in the UK.
You can follow Caroline on Instagram @carolinesblurb, on Twitter @carolinesblurb, or on Facebook as Caroline Leech Author.
Marissa Valdez is the NY Times bestselling illustrator of the picture book AMBITIOUS GIRL, written by Meena Harris. She’s a 2016 graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where she received a BFA in Animation. She loves to illustrate stories that are overflowing with humor, wit, and totally out-there situations. In her spare time, Marissa gets her illustration inspiration by wandering around natural science museums, watching super-cool dinosaur documentaries, and playing with her two fat cats. AMBITIOUS GIRL (Little Brown, 2021) is her debut picture book as an illustrator. She is also illustrating the young chapter book series ESME’S BIRTHDAY CONGA LINE (Tundra, May 10th 2022), written by Lourdes Heuer, about a plucky girl who is sure she can plan her own birthday party when her Mimi and Pipo forget, and HATTIE HARMONY: WORRY DETECTIVE (Viking, June 28th 2022), written by Elizabeth Olsen and Robbie Arnett, about a cat detective that always finds the perfect tools to calm her friends’ bodies and minds. She is represented by Kelly Sonnack at Andrea Brown Literary Agency.
You can follow Marissa on Instagram @marissaarts and on Twitter @marissaillo.
Critiquing: Portfolios, Picture book dummies.
To register, fill out the form below. SCBWI members MUST be logged in to get the discounted rate. Registration EXTENDED – will close at 11:59 PM Eastern on July 26, 2022.
International members only: If our payment system isn’t processing your credit card or PayPal payment, email mddewv-ra@scbwi.org to request an alternate method of payment. Please include your name and address in your request.
Access information for the live webinar will be sent on the morning of the webinar and access information on the recording will be sent out the following day. The recording of the webinar will be available for 30 days after the live event. The recording will be for registered attendees only, so if you can’t make the live event, you can register to view the recording.
Those who select add-on critiques must submit their critique material by August 4, 2022. Detailed submission instructions will be sent out following the live webinar to those who register for this option. You do not need to submit anything now.
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