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“Ask an Editor” is a forum wherein SCBWI members submit questions that are answered quarterly as part of our Kite Tales blog.
Hi Christine—What is a booking agency and is this service relevant to my career?
—Joshua, Los Angeles
Hello Joshua –
Agencies that book authors and illustrators to do presentations at schools, libraries, and related venues are called booking agencies or speaking agencies. I do not belong to one but have checked into two, How Now Booking and The Author Village, and have compiled information about other agencies based on feedback I received from authors and illustrators I interviewed.
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Every year, SCBWI Los Angeles opens our Writers Day contest to all members attending the event. This year, our anonymous judges chose 10 honorees in Young Adult, Middle Grade, Picture Book, and Other (which includes poetry and non-fiction). First place winners in each category receive free tuition to next year’s Writers Day, as well as a manuscript critique from one of this year’s faculty members. There were a lot of wonderful entries and a “20% of total entries” guideline was used to determine how many manuscripts were honored in each category. As Contest Coordinator Karol Ruth Silverstein so aptly put it, “Regardless of whether you win or lose, putting your work out there to be judged by entering the contest is a courageous act in itself. So let me first congratulate all of you who entered.”
