An advertizing order form will be attached to this website by September 15 ready for download and easy submisssion.

Showcase your school and library presentations in the SCBWI Authors and Illustrators Speakers Sourcebook. The sourcebooks is a fantastic way Texas Chapter SCBWI PALto get your name and book information in front of hundreds of librarians in Texas. 

The Sourcebook is a full color, professionally printed booklet. Each author/illustrator will have the choice of a 1/3 or full page ad with his or her information, a photo and one book cover featured (full page ads may feature additional book covers).

Advertizing fees are 1/3 Page ad – $45 and Full Page ad – $100.

The Annual TLA Convention lives up to the adage that “everything is big in Texas .”  Attendance consistently numbers more than 7,000 librarians and exhibitors. This conference attracts all types of librarians, but mostly those from school and public libraries. TLA offers unparalleled exposure and opportunities to market your books and services to the library community. That being said, you will want to be included in this publication…for sure.

Keep an eye on our Austin SCBWI website for more information.

What’s the LA National like, you ask? Why should you want to go? Just click on the link below, access the flickr slide show and you’ll see what we mean. See all of those beautiful smiling faces? Take note of the talent behind the podiums. Look at the brilliance paired up in those panels. Wow. The only person missing in those shots is YOU!

http://www.scbwi.org/Conference.aspx?Con=6

And, to further generate enthusiam and attendance possibility, our Chapter is hosting a raffle to win a free registration to the LA conference. Here’s how it works:

•  Raffle tickets (1 for $2.00 or 3 for $5.00) will be sold beginning now and until our Regional Conference in February.
• Tickets will be during monthly meetings and through the mail (See link below).
• All funds generated go directly to the LA National Raffle Fund.
• The amount of money generated will define the number of Conference registrations we’ll be able to sponsor.
• Winners will be announced during our Regional Conference.

If you are unable to attend monthly meeting, worry not. Simply download the form below and mail your check to buy a chance to go to LA!

LA 2011 SCBWI National Conference Registration Fee Raffle

Good luck! Hope to see you there next summer.

The word is spreading! Check out this wonderful blog post by Adventures in Publishing.

http://childrenspublishing.blogspot.com/2010/08/conference-round-up-representing.html

Here’s another by The Hate Mongering Tart.

http://www.ekristinanderson.com/?p=665

And Cynsations.

http://cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com/2010/08/cynsational-news-giveaways_20.html

Hope to see you there!!!

Bethany Hegedus is the author of Between Us Baxters, Truth With a Capital T, and the forthcoming Grandfather Gandhi. She is a co-editor, Hunger Mountain - Young Adult & Children’s and the Austin host for readergirlz.

Way to go, Bethany! Your Austin SCBWI community is proud of you!

Click here for details regarding Chris’s nomination for the Land of Enchantment Book Award.

•  1st place: $100 , free registration to the 2011 Writer’s Conference sponsored by the Friends of the Library, and name on plaque 
• 2nd place: $50.00 and name of plaque.
• 3rd place: $25.00 and name of plaque

Winners will be announced on Saturday, September 25 at the Evening with the Authors: a Writers Round-table program.

 For information on submission qualifications call Jeanne Green at 817-952-2372 or visit www.bedfordlibrary.org.

“Building Your PR Team” with Chris Barton, Marilyn Carter & Lisa Lawrence at 7:00 p.m.
Location: BookPeople, 603 North Lamar Boulevard, Austin
Before the program, join us for Happy Hour at Shoal Creek Saloon, 900 N. Lamar Blvd., Austin. from 5 – 6:30 PM

Congratulations, Lindsey! We are very, very, very happy for you!

Where else in the world can you rub shoulders with the very best in business at a moment’s whim? Be it M.T. Anderson or Arthur Levine or David Diaz or Marion Dane Bauer? Where else can you laugh and dance, boldly howl at the moon, and make new friends that will surely last a lifetime? Where else can you attend an international event dedicated to keeping the artist within you validated and inspired? That place is LA at the SCBWI National Conference, my friend…and next year we need YOU there!

Day and night Carmen Oliver, our beloved ARA, diligently updated her blog, packing it with pictures and juicy bits of information you’ll surely want to know about.  Rather than recreating the blogroll, I’ve linked her posts to this webpage. Click on the link. Scroll upwards to read her posts. Savor them and then plan to save your nickels to join us next year!

Carmen’s sensational 2010 LA SCBWI Summer Conference Blogposts

The only person missing in those great pictures is YOU!

Next summer SCBWI will be celebrating  40 years of supporting writers and illustrators all around the globe. Y’all, we have to gather up a huge Austin contingency. Don’t you agree?