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New England SCBWI has a Twitter account @nescbwi featuring news and information about the upcoming 25th Annual New England SCBWI Regional Conference. Please follow us and help spread the word!

Retweets always welcome.

Newbery Medalist Sid Fleischman died this week, a day after celebrating his 90th birthday. Sid was a speaker at the SCBWI New England Conference in 2007, where he inspired us with his words and wowed us with his stage magic. Sid was also the namesake for the Sid Fleischman Humor Award, given each year by SCBWI to honor work in the genre of humor.

Sid will be missed, but his talent lives on through such works as The Whipping Boy, The Ghost in the Midday Sun, Jim Ugly, The Abracadabra Kid, and many more, including a much-anticipated biography of Charlie Chaplin coming in April 2010 from Greenwillow.

This summer The New England NEWS, the bi-monthly regional newsletter for the New England regions, will be going to an online-only edition. This change will allow us to offer the newsletter for free to New England SCBWI members through the main SCBWI website. The NEWS will be reformatted to a more modern format and will continue to include valuable marketing reports, informative articles about writing and illustrating for children, updates about activities and events in our area, and more.

Watch this space for more updates and information, coming soon!

Managing Your Online Presence:
Websites, Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and More
Saturday, November 14, 2009, 10:00 - 2:30 in Acton, Massachusetts

An event for published authors and illustrators of books for children

Taking Your School Visits to the Next Level: Q&A with Two School Visit Coordinators

AND

Passion and Process vs. Product and Promotion: A Group Discussion

Saturday, September 19, 2009, 10:00 - 2:30, in Acton, Massachusetts

An event for published authors and illustrators of books for children

What Are Salons?

Salons are gatherings for published authors and illustrators of children's books...

• To share ideas, triumphs, and struggles
• To discuss what SCBWI-NE can do to help its published members
• To grow as artists
• To be inspired by experts in the field
• To get connected

The next New England SCBWI Salon will be Saturday, June 6, 2009, 10AM - 1PM with author Mark Peter Hughes and author-illustrator Brian Lies. After describing their own experiences, Mark and Brian will lead a group discussion of the ups and downs of promoting children's books.

The Massachusetts Library Association has just opened the following event to adults outside the library community, and it may be of interest to SCBWIers...

Rick Riordan: Mythology and Magic in the Classroom

Rick Riordan will discuss how his years as a teacher, his love of mythology, and his son's struggles with learning differences combined to form the #1 New York Times bestselling Percy Jackson & the Olympians series.

Rick is also the author of The 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones, another #1 New York Times bestseller. He lives in San Antonio with his wife and two sons, and is a full-time writer.

Q & A and Book signing to follow. Books are available for pre-purchase, and a limited number will be available at the event. Signing of outside books is limited to one per person.

This program is for ADULTS only. Your registration confirmation serves as your ticket to the program. Children will not be allowed into the program.

Tickets must be ordered by 3/25. Registration is available at: http://www.masslib.org/yss/2009SpringProgram/index.htm

Tickets are $35 and include continental breakfast, program, and book signing.

Friday, April 3, 2009
9:30 a.m.--12:00 pm
Hogan Campus Center
College of the Holy Cross,
Worcester, MA

Contact Elizabeth Hacala
Massachusetts Library Association Executive Manager
781-275-7729

The Class of 2k9 debut authors have launched their official website, www.classof2k9.com, following in the footsteps of the legendary Classes of 2k7 and 2k8. These authors, whose first middle-grade or YA novels will be published during the 2009 calendar year, have banded together to coordinate promotional efforts to booksellers, librarians, and teachers through a joint website, blog, brochure, and other elements of a marketing campaign. By working together, pooling their resources and expertise, they will be able to draw more attention to their books than any one of them could do alone.

The Class of 2k10 will be organizing in 2009. If anyone has a first novel scheduled for a 2010 release, and might want to join the upcoming Class, let me know and I'll forward your information on to the appropriate committee. Thanks!