The WWA SCBWI Northern Network wants to invite you to our December Schmooze--TONIGHT! Northern Network SchmoozeWednesday, December 1, 7:00-9:00 pmBarnes & Noble (café), Bellingham, Washington“Writing Picture Books: An Author’s and Editor’s Perspective” More than twelve years of experience making products for children—books, toys, games, and puzzles—has given our special guest speaker, Liz Mills, a unique insight... Continue Reading →
Northern Network Schmooze–December 1st
The WWA SCBWI Northern Network wants to invite you to our December Schmooze! Northern Network SchmoozeWednesday, December 1, 7:00-9:00 pmBarnes & Noble (café), Bellingham, Washington“Writing Picture Books: An Author’s and Editor’s Perspective” More than twelve years of experience making products for children—books, toys, games, and puzzles—has given our special guest speaker, Liz Mills, a unique... Continue Reading →
Liz Mills at Secret Garden Books
Liz Mills will be at Secret Garden Books for Ultimate Tuesday, Oct 26, at 7 p.m. with singing, book signing, music, treats, and THE SPOOKY WHEELS ON THE BUS! Find out more about Liz on her website.
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 →
Online picture book class with Liz Mills
If you can't make a real-life class for whatever reason, this virtual one taught by our own Liz Mills might be just the thing: From Cover to Cover: A Picture Book Class Are you brimming with picture-book drafts after NaPiBoWriWee? Do you have a drawer full of stories clamoring to be completed and polished? Then... 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 →
Getting serious about series #scbwiwwa
Kevin Emerson, Suzanne Young, J. Elizabeth Mills, and Trudi Trueit are talking about their work writing and editing book series. Suzanne Young: her quirky character led to the creation of a series from a single book (THE NAUGHTY LIST). Write relatable characters you want to be around. If she'd known it was being a series,... 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 →