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		<title>A Night with Three Agents</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Emily Goodman It’s a tough time to sell books, especially any that “reek of the familiar,” but it’s also a good time to be an unpublished writer or illustrator. In fact, it’s better to have a blank slate right now than a so-so publishing record. These were some of the insights from the panel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Portfolio Critques with Patti Ann Harris</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mackenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Wallace West Patti Ann Harris, Senior Art Director for Little Brown Books for Young Readers, critiqued the portfolios of three SCBWI Metro Members on 13 December, 2011. Aside from providing both praise and constructive criticism she offered the invaluable advice of a seasoned industry professional. In response to the age-old question of whether or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>440 Gallery Juried Show Children&#8217;s Book Illustrations</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 02:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mackenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 440 Gallery is an artists collective in Brooklyn, NY.  Twice a year we host a themed, juried show open to international applications. This May we are hosting a theme of children&#8217;s book illustrations.  Please note that submitted art does NOT have to be published work.  We are very excited about this show and our chosen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creative Cave &#8211; A Night of Writing and Illustrating</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next Session TBA, 2012 Join us for another evening of writing, sketching, and imagining. Work individually on your own projects, while enjoying the collective energy of a focused and creative group. Our first get-together was a great success!Writers and illustrators were able to get some serious (&#38; not-so-serious) work done in a relatively short amount [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creative Motivation: For yourself and your clients!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 23:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mackenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Christina A. Tugeau: Artist Agent LLC, 1994–present, SCBWI member and speaker. It is difficult to produce, create, and invent when paying assignments are often far between, underpaid, overly demanding, and have short deadlines. Everyone deals with this in his or her own way, but I want to suggest jumping right in with both feet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Query Writing &#8211; A Guide for the Anxious</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 23:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mackenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Sarah Davies, Literary Agent I toyed with much fancier titles for this post, but then decided to say it straight. What you want to know is how to write a great query and the whole process worries you sick, right? Everyone else in the industry has blogged on this topic, so there’s no shortage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating Picture Books in a Challenging and Changing Market</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mackenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Melanie Hope Greenberg Clarion Editor Lynne Polvino, opened her talk for the November Tuesday Night Professional Series by asking the audience to think about their formative memories of the classic books they loved.  She suggested that we approach our careers as “a noble endeavor, an important and worthwhile undertaking, but one that is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Frontiers of Book Talk</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mackenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Emily Goodman Brian Kenney, editorial director for Library Journal, School Library Journal, and The Horn Book, and Luann Toth, managing editor of book reviews for School Library Journal, described how the digital revolution has transformed professional coverage of books and publishing in general at the October 11, 2011 lecture in the Tuesday Professional Series. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make Editors Go Ga-Ga: Martha Mihalick on Voice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mackenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Emily Goodman Martha Mihalick, editor at Greenwillow, opened the Metro NY Tuesday Professional Lecture Series on September 13 with a sold-out talk entitled, “Voice: What is it, and why does it make editors go ga-ga?” “Your voice is your instrument,” said Mihalick, noting that dictionary definitions of ‘voice’ also call it “a wish, choice, right of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Fiddling, Start Finishing: Julie Berry on getting through your first draft</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mackenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Emily Goodman Author Julie Berry told a fascinated Tuesday Professional Lecture Series audience at the June 14 lecture how she once wrote seven books in a single year—while also working part-time, being married, and raising four children. “I didn’t plan for seven books to come at once,” Berry said. She had just sold her first [...]]]></description>
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