| Thank you to all who attended
this spring’s successful event! We gathered on a
mostly sunny weekend on the shore of Lake Simcoe near
Barrie, Ontario at the Kempenfelt Conference Centre to
learn from Tim Gillner, Art Director of Boyds
Mills Press; Molly O’Neill, Assistant Editor
of HarperCollins
USA’s the Bowen Press; and Elizabeth
MacLeod, formerly an editor at Kids Can Press and
author of 30 books. Topics included how to build more
convincing characters, what is expected of a picture book
illustrator, and the essentials of a query letter. Participants
had the chance to meet one-on-one with speakers to discuss
their own work.
We send out a huge heartfelt thank you to the speakers
for their informative presentations and for being so available
for questions and conversation throughout the weekend.
Mealtime tables featured lively topics of discussion,
and the evening’s camaraderie kept us all up late
into the evenings. And we couldn't have done it at all
without the generous help of our volunteers. Thank you
to Michelle Jodoin, Christine Tripp, Caroline Pattison,
Peggy Collins, and Stephanie Rainey.
We all came away as wiser writers and illustrators, and
we came away with new friends.
Special thanks to Page
& Turners Bookstore for sponsoring our book sale,
and to Quill
& Quire, and Writer’s
Digest Books.
Lizann Flatt, Regional Advisor
Alma Fullerton, Assistant Regional Advisor
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