Workshop: Katie Davis
Early Bird Registration for Picture Book Summit 2023 opens this Friday and today we announce the second of our two in-depth craft workshops.
Welcome back Katie Davis to the PBSummit stage!
Here’s what you need to know about Katie!
Picture Book Summit Co-Founder Katie Davis is an award-winning writer/illustrator whose published work includes kidlit genres from picture books to middle grade to young adult. Her first picture book, Who Hops? turns 24 this year, and Kindergarten Rocks! has been a perennial favorite since 2005.
Katie critiques manuscripts twice a month through her Writers’ Block membership and is the former Director of the Institute of Children’s Literature and Institute for Writers. Her books have sold over a million copies and her two guides for writers, How To Promote Your Children’s Book and How to Write a Children’s Book, both debuted at #1 on Amazon.
On October 7, 2023, Katie will get hands-on with our attendees during…
How to Create a Smart Dummy
Whether you’re an author-only or an author-illustrator, if you want to be smart about your manuscript you need to make a dummy. A real-life, page-turning dummy is a physical mockup that can help you assess rhythm, pacing, tension build, the balance of acts, page turns, and whether your text provides enough illustration opportunities for the illustrator. Author and illustrator Katie Davis demonstrates how creating a dummy is the key to making your manuscript sing.
Bring 8 pieces of paper, pencils, scissors, tape, and your printed manuscript, and leave with your very own smart dummy. This workshop is designed for all picture book creators whether you’re an illustrator or not!
Come have a great time with Katie as you get a chance to see your manuscript in a whole new way!
As just a quick reminder, here’s who else will be joining us on October 7, 2023 for a full day of online picture book writing fun:
- JULIE ANDREWS and Emma Walton Hamilton – Creating In Concert: The High and Low Notes of Writing Partnerships
- Nikki Grimes – The Music of Language
- Philip C. Stead and Erin E. Stead – Picture Book Harmony: The Marriage of Story and Art
- Angela Dalton and Julie Hedlund – 8 Ways to Ruin a Picture Book Biography
- Katie Davis – How to Create a Smart Dummy
- Editor Panel
- Agent Panel
Ticket Giveaway!
Early Bird Registration opens this Friday, May 19, 2023. Today is your LAST CHANCE to win a free ticket to this year’s Summit before registration opens!
Just scroll to the bottom of this post and enter the Rafflecopter. You can get entries for visiting us on Facebook and tweeting about our 2023 Superstar Speakers on Twitter. Even if you entered before, you can tweet one more time today for one last entry! Check out all the details in the Rafflecopter below.
The Rafflecopter is open until tomorrow, May 16, 2023 at 11:59pm EASTERN. Five Picture Book Summit 2023 Ticket Winners will be announced on May 18, 2022.
Stay tuned and add yourself to our newsletter list as we reveal Featured Agents and Editors in the next couple of days! Join the Insider’s List here.
Good luck!!
Are you a BIPOC picture book creator? Be sure to enter our BIPOC Scholarship Giveaway here by 5/17/23.
Learn More
This year’s Picture Book Summit is coming October 7, 2023.
We’re announcing our theme, presentation descriptions, and pricing structure as we build our way toward registration opening on May 19th. Be the first to know! Sign up for our Insiders List to be notified as soon as Early Bird registration opens. Plus, get our favorite revision strategies for free! (AND just for signing up, you get five entries in the Rafflecopter for a free ticket to this year’s event. So sign up and check that off on the above Rafflecopter.)
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