Posting your book events

Are you an SCBWI member at the PAL level* with a new book coming out? Hooray! Let the Chinook Update know, and we'll help you announce it.

Guidelines:

• Please try to email launch or signing event information at least a week, and preferably two, before the event. We'll try to accommodate shorter lead times, but a day or two beforehand really isn't sufficient.
• A book cover, headshot, or similar image is welcome; email it as an attachment. Images with a lot of text (e.g., posters) are harder to use legibly.
• We'll post any event (and any public invitation information that applies) on this blog once per event and do our best to add it to our region calendar. (If our brains overflow, like toilets, and we forget, feel free to remind us.)
• You're also welcome to post the event and any reminders yourself on our region Facebook page.

*For now, by SCBWI policy we post launches and other events for PAL members only. All members are welcome to put new book and event information on our Facebook page per the fourth bullet above. Self-published members can also submit their work for the new Spark award.

Questions? Email us. And congratulations!

Here's to You!!!

SCBWI WWA is an amazing region!!! Not just because we live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest or have an incredibly talented and hard working Advisory Committee (which we do...they are truly wonderful), but because we have the most amazing people that make up our region. 

I'm getting married this summer and moving to Idaho (which puts me in the Inland Empire Region). I'm sad to go but excited for a new chapter in my life. I'm handing the Update reins over to Emily Russin who will field all your e-mails and keep the Update running smoothly for all of you. You can get in touch with her through the same update(at)scbwi-washington(dot)org address. 

I joined the Advisory Committee two years ago and have had a fantastic time getting to know people by being the Update Editor. It's so fun to see people at conferences and say, "Oh, nice to put a face with the name" and hear all your good news, ideas and celebrate with you on your writing adventures. I'm very thankful for my time as the Update Editor and want to say thank you to each of you for making the experience unforgettable. Many blessings to each of you and Happy Writing!!! 

Submit to the printed Chinook

It’s hard to believe, but summer has come to a close. The trees are changing colors, the air is crisp, and it’s time for the next Chinook newsletter.

We want to hear from you!

• Do you have a special talent in the children's book business?
  
• Have you learned something in a class that you want to share with other members?
  
• Did you read something recently that inspired you and changed your writing?
  
• Are you passionate about wordplay or grammar?
  
• Have you always wanted to see your work in print?

We are accepting article submissions for our November newsletter. Share your expertise on the craft of writing for children. Please send submissions to Articles Editor Liz Mills (jemills1@gmail.com) by Oct. 12, 2009.

Send your illustrations to Kevan Atteberry by the same date. His email is kevan@oddisgood.com.

Welcome to the Chinook Update

This is a blog for children's book writers and illustrators in Western Washington, but of course we welcome all readers.

To contact the editor, please send e-mail to chinook AT SIGN marthabee.com (replacing the words "AT SIGN" with the appropriate symbol, of course. These spambots are so persistent).