Next week, we announce our Workshop Presenters, Featured Agents, and Featured Editors. If you’ve been paying attention, we’ve hinted at our theme for the year, but let’s go ahead and make it official…
Each one of our sessions this year is designed to help you create picture books that come together like a perfect symphony and hit all the high notes.
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This speaker puts the SUPER in Superstar! Please welcome Virginia Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Nikki Grimes to Picture Book Summit!
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Picture Book Summit is offering 3 scholarships to unagented BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) children’s authors and illustrators to this year’s Summit. Our 2023 Summit will be held on October 7, 2023. Don’t worry if you can’t attend live. The entire conference will be recorded, and scholarships include access to the replays through the end of January, 2024.
Today we start off BIG with our first Superstar Speaker announcement. For our first reveal, you get not just one, but two Superstar Speakers. Please welcome the Caldecott-Medal-winning duo Philip C. Stead and Erin E. Stead!
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It’s time for the third biggest reason manuscripts get declined by agents and editors and this is a BIG one. Manuscripts are turned down every day for the simple reason that they are just not ready. So, how do you know when your manuscript is ready for publication, therefore ready for an agent’s or editor’s eyes?
Listen now as Katie Davis gives a brief breakdown of all the things to look for in your manuscript to be sure it’s actually ready to be sent out into the world of publishing.
Have you listened to the first two episodes of 4 Biggest Reasons Manuscripts Get Rejected?
Catch up here:
046 – 4 Biggest Reasons Manuscript Get Rejected Part 1 – Unoriginal Ideas
047 – 4 Biggest Reasons Manuscript Get Rejected Part 2 – Lack of Emotional Resonance
Stay tuned! We wrap up this series with Part 4 in two weeks!
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It’s our last episode for this round of the Picture Book Summit Roundtable. We plan to bring you more episodes on topics that affect picture book creators in the future. Thank you for your feedback and we hope we get you thinking!
You can see the first two Roundtable episodes here:
Today, it feels like we’re traveling to the future as we discuss Artificial Intelligence, more commonly referred to as AI. What does AI mean for creatives? It has huge implications for writers and illustrators alike and this is the first of what is sure to be a series of discussions we have on the subject as it grows and develops in the coming months and years.
Thank you for the great response to our first Picture Book Summit Roundtable! We love that you enjoy these thoughtful conversations as much as we do!
Today, we bring you the second installment of PBSummit Roundtable series. You can catch our first Roundtable episode here:
This discussion centers around how Anything Goes in Picture Books these days!
This week, we are thrilled to bring you a brand new feature: The Picture Book Summit Roundtable!
In our weekly Summit planning meetings, we find ourselves talking about current events in publishing and how they affect picture books. We’ve decided to let you be a fly on the wall in this new series as we bring the conversation to YOU!
It’s time for the second biggest reason manuscripts get tossed out by agents and editors. Have you ever heard: “Your story didn’t resonate with me”? Julie Hedlund shares how this type of response maybe indicate a lack of emotional resonance in your story.
Listen in as Julie defines emotional resonance and how to ensure your picture book has it. You’re one more step closer to picture book success with these tips.
Which picture books really resonate? How can you study up on emotional resonance?
Check out the books below!
Dash’s Picture Books Picks for Emotional Resonance
Did you catch Part 1 of the 4 Biggest Reasons Manuscripts Get Rejected? Listen here.
Be on the lookout for Part 3 in the next two weeks!
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