SCBWI-Illinois: Events

Food for Thought: Facebook for Dummies - SCBWI-IL Edition

DATE: February 13, 2010
CONTACT: Sallie Wolf
LOCATION/TIME: 9:30 - noon, Naperville Public Library, 200 W. Jefferson

You’ve been told you *need* to be on Facebook, but this hands-on session will show you why you’ll *want* to be. We’ll start with the basics, like how to sign on and set your privacy settings, and move to specifics for authors and illustrators. You’ll learn about the differences between your personal profile and a professional/fan page, how to create a fan page for your professional presence, and how to incorporate content from your current website, blog, or Twitter account. You’ll also discover other benefits to being on Facebook that will enrich your creative life, beyond the mere PR/marketing aspects.

This presentation is open to all SCBWI-IL members, published or not yet. The presentation will take place at the Nichols branch of the Naperville Public Library, located in downtown Naperville at 200 W. Jefferson, Naperville, IL 60540. Neither a laptop nor previous Facebook experience is required, but attendees with wifi-enabled laptops are encouraged to bring them, to try out some of the tips during the Q&A part of the session.

The presenter, Deborah Pfeiffer, is a self-confessed Facebook fanatic, who also happens to be a writer. Her fiction manuscripts--young adult, women’s fiction, and romantic comedy--have finaled and won in regional and national writing contests. She previously worked as a managing editor of an international trade magazine and for the last 11 years has run her own freelance editing, writing, and project management firm, SWYM Editorial (“Say What You Mean”). You can find her at www.facebook.com/pages/Deborah-Pfeiffer/137218196155?ref=mf&v=wall
where you’ll find tips on how to use Facebook.

Cost: $10

RSVP: Sallie Wolf (<salwolf@comcast.net>)

Coffee, tea, and juice will be provided. Attendees with last names starting with M-Z please bring a brunch food to share (bring eneough for 4-6 people.)

All SCBWI-IL members are welcome, whether they are published or not, on Facebook or not (yet).

WORDS IN THE WOODS: LAKESIDE

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SCBWI – DOWNSTATE ILLINOIS - RETREAT 2010
     Begins Friday, June 18 @ 11:30 am
    Ends Sunday, June 20 @ 1:30 pm
   Villa Maria, Lake Springfield, Illinois

Award Winning Author, Kathi Appelt

Atheneum Executive Editor, Caitlyn Dlouhy

Foundry Literary + Media Agent, Stephen Barbara

$290 for SCBWI Members $315 for Non Members
Price includes food and lodging (double room w/private bath)

Attendees will be assigned to groups of 5 to 6 people. Groups will exchange either a full picture book manuscript, or the first 25 pages of a larger manuscript. Groups will also meet in break-out sessions to work with speakers on specific elements in their manuscripts. Individual writing time is planned. A limited number of Professional Critiques will be available for an additional charge.

We are offering a full tuition scholarship, including a professional written critique, in memory of Becky Mabry, a skilled writer who came within a hair's breadth of publishing her middle grade novel. This scholarship is open to writers who have not yet published a work of fiction with a mainstream publisher. Click on the Scholarship PDF link below for more details.

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