Vonna | February 22, 2010
On Saturday morning, our conference had sold out and had a waiting list. The Merrell Center was an excellent facility. We had three big screens so everybody could easily see the speakers presentations. The microphones worked perfectly and we had wi-fi and plenty of electrical outlets so that our bookstore ran smoothly. The room for [...]
Vonna | February 22, 2010
The Friday night before the Houston SCBWI conference, Varsha and Rajeev Bajaj hosted our guest speakers and the conference organizers at their lovely home in Katy.
We treated our guests (and ourselves) to good ol’ Texas barbecue and had a great time getting to know each other. This will be a low word count post, [...]
Vonna | February 16, 2010
Last night I got to see a real treat—Heather Brewer, author of the popular teen series, The Chronicles of Vladimir Todd, had a book signing at Blue Willow Bookshop, my favorite local book store. The book she was promoting, ELEVENTH GRADE BURNS, is the fourth in the series, and her fans, or minions as she [...]
Vonna | February 9, 2010
In my last post I talked about the great lineup of authors who will be showing their books at next week’s Houston SCBWI conference. In fact, it is such a great lineup that I need to add SIX more authors!
A few weeks ago I did a post on Creative Publishing using Cherie Foster Colburn as [...]
Vonna | February 8, 2010
In just two weeks, the Houston chapter of the SCBWI will be having our annual conference. Besides the great speakers we have lined up, one of the great features of our conference is the amazing number of local authors who will be participating in the conference bookstore. For those of you who will be joining [...]
Vonna | February 1, 2010
Those of us who were in Austin this past weekend got lucky—the ALA announced the 2009 awards after the writers and illustrators had already agreed to attend the Austin SCBWI conference, Destination Publication. So, we had both the author and illustrator for the Caldecott Honor winner, All the World. We had the author of the [...]
