Having our Say

Gina Ruiz is some kind of technological genius! She managed to put our SCBWI powerpoint presentation up online at her two blogs: AmoXcalli and La Bloga. Gina and TadMack composed the powerpoint and Tadmack, Little Willow, Sarah (a.fortis) and I did the talking.*
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Poor Gina was too ill to attend the panel and we missed her greatly.

Starstruck

I promise I'll catch you all up on the conference tomorrow when I'm home and settled. But, in the meantime, I wanted to share my starstruck moment at SCBWI--a meeting with Linda Sue Park and Lisa Yee. (I only now noticed that Lisa included a Peep in the picture.)

Linda Sue Park's Project Mulberry is one of my favorite Middle Grade novels of all time. I think it's a classic, even though it was published only in 2005. If you haven't read it, put it on your list. It's wonderful.

Lisa Yee's Millicent Min, Girl Genius, Stanford Wong Flunks Big Time, and So Totally Emily Ebers are comic gold. Lisa is my daughter's favorite writer of non-fantasy fiction, and it's easy to understand why.

The Panel + Disco Mermaids

Okay, so our blogger SCBWI panel took place this morning and, over all, it went well.

Best of all, we got this fab group picture with the Disco Mermaids!

Back row: Me in orange, Jay, Robin, Eve.
Front row: TadMack, Little Willow, and Sarah (a.fortis)

First SCBWI picture

I had sushi this evening with Sara Lewis Holmes! A conference-goer kindly took our picture here by the SCBWI sign with Sara's cell phone.

It was a great dinner and coffee. We talked books, writing, kids--the works.

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Our blogger presentation is tomorrow morning. More photos to come...

If you are at SCBWI-Los Angeles now,

then come to the first annual kidlitosphere drink night at the SCBWI Summer Conference tomorrow night at 9pm. Click here for specifics.

Everyone is welcome. Tracy Grand of JacketFlap will be handing out JacketFlap caps to the first 200 guests.