Greetings, fellow SCBWI-WWA members...In honor of Google's release of eBooks today, I would like to challenge one or more of you to write an article for The Chinook about the various e-readers and electronic book movement. I'm open to different takes on the issue, though I'd like to keep things positive and informative, rather than... Continue Reading →
Trolling for Trenches Tales
Straight from our own Chinook Editor, Liz Mills...As surely as the Fremont Troll grabs VW Beetles off the Aurora bridge for lunch, I am low on Trenches interviews! Let there not be an issue without juicy stories of how we are making our way through the wild, woolly world of publishing. Have you recently sold... Continue Reading →
Good News for Liz Mills
Liz has just released her book, THe SPOOKY WHEELS ON THE BUS. It's now on sale at Santoro’s Books, which will host a book launch party September 11, 2010. This is Liz's thirtieth book! The link for this is found on the PhinneyWood.com website.Liz also puts together our SCBWI Chinook, and sends me wonderful links... Continue Reading →
Looking for Tipsters for the Chinook
The Chinook is looking for tips about writing query letters. Can you help? How many query letters have you written in your writing career? What helpful tips have you learned from those that were successful and those that weren’t so successful? Would you contribute those tips to an article in an upcoming issue of the... Continue Reading →
Write for the printed Chinook
This comes from Liz Mills, our Chinook editor: Our next issue of The Chinook will focus on submission and promotion. Who among you has an interesting insight into the vast and somewhat confusing world of submission? Perhaps an unusual path you took? Some interesting and diplomatic perspectives on some of the newer publishing houses and... Continue Reading →
A query about queries
This comes from Elizabeth Mills, editor of The Chinook, our printed quarterly.How many query letters have you written in your writing career? What helpful tips have you learned from those that were successful and those that weren’t so successful? Would you contribute those tips to an article in an upcoming issue of the Chinook? We’d... Continue Reading →