Intensives: Friday, March 13 Conference: Friday, March Decatur, Georgia

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1 Meet. Mingle. Grow. Intensives: Friday, March 13 Conference: Friday, March Decatur, Georgia Serving Alabama, Georgia, and The Florida Panhandle Society of Children s Book Writers and Illustrators Decatur Library 215 Sycamore Street Decatur, GA

2 Conference at a Glance March 13-15, 2015 FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2015 TIME EVENT LOCATION 8:00 8:30 AM REGISTRATION Morning Mingle Ground Floor Conference Room 8:30 AM 3:30 PM WRITERS INTENSIVE: MEG MEDINA: Mining for Story TBA 8:30 9:00 AM ILLUSTRATORS DAY: Portfolio Check-in and Display TBA 9:00 9:50 AM ILLUSTRATORS DAY: Neal Porter, How I Choose an Illustrator Ground Floor Auditorium 10:00 10:50 AM ILLUSTRATORS DAY: Giuseppe Castellano, A Children s Book Art Department: An Inside Look Ground Floor Auditorium 11:00 11:50 AM ILLUSTRATORS DAY: Mentorship Finale Ground Floor Auditorium 12:00 1:00 PM ILLUSTRATORS DAY: Lunch Ground Floor Auditorium 1:00 1:50 PM ILLUSTRATORS DAY: Bill Mayer, Life Imitates Art Ground Floor Auditorium 2:00 3:00 PM ILLUSTRATORS DAY: Quickfire Portfolio Review Ground Floor Auditorium 3:15 3:50 PM ILLUSTRATORS DAY: Q&A Panel Ground Floor Auditorium 4:00 7:00 PM CONFERENCE REGISTRATION AND PORTFOLIO SET-UP Ground Floor Lobby 5:00 6:30 PM GENERAL: Portfolio Show & Reception Ground Floor 6:30 7:00 PM GENERAL: Book Launch Party Ground Floor Auditorium 7:30 8:30 PM GENERAL: Public Book Signing Ground Floor Conference Rooms SATURDAY, MARCH 14, :30 8:30 AM REGISTRATION Morning Mingle Ground Floor Conference Room 8:30 9:00 Welcome and Opening Announcements Ground Floor Auditorium 9:00-9:50 KEYNOTE: MEG MEDINA: On Writing, Culture, and Children s Fiction Ground Floor Auditorium BREAKOUT SESSION 1 10:00-10:50 NEAL PORTER: Drawing Words and Writing Pictures Ground Floor Auditorium 10:00-10:50 KAREN GRENCIK: 101+ Reasons for Rejection Ground Floor Conference Room 1 GENERAL SESSION 11:00-11:50 KEYNOTE: GIUSEPPE CASTELLANO: The Secret to Getting Ahead Ground Floor Auditorium 12:00 1:00 LUNCH Ground Floor Lobby 12:00 1:00 PAL Lunch Meeting Fourth Floor Conference Room 2 SCBWI Southern Breeze Spring Conference 2015

3 Conference at a Glance March 13-15, 2015 BREAKOUT SESSION 2 TIME EVENT LOCATION 1:00-1:50 GIUSEPPE CASTELLANO: Conversation w/an Art Director Ground Floor Conference Room 1 1:00-1:50 PAL PANEL: What an Author Needs to Know BEFORE the Book Comes Out Ground Floor Auditorium BREAKOUT SESSION 3 2:00-2:50 ELISE HOWARD: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Working With An Editor But Were Afraid To Ask Ground Floor Auditorium 2:00-2:50 MEG MEDINA: Marketing with Meaning Ground Floor Conference Room 1 GENERAL SESSION 3:00-3:50 KEYNOTE: KAREN GRENCIK: How to Succeed in this Challenging Industry Ground Floor Auditorium 4:00 4:50 First 8 Ground Floor Auditorium 5:00 6:00 Formal & Informal Critiques Ground Floor Auditorium 6:30 9:00 Dinner and Gala Makan Restaurant SUNDAY, MARCH 15, :00 9:00 AM FORMAL CRITIQUES Ground Floor Conference Rooms 9:00 9:50 KEYNOTE: NEAL PORTER: Traditional Picture Books in a Digital Age Ground Floor Auditorium 10:00 10:50 KEYNOTE: ELISE HOWARD: The Small House Difference Ground Floor Auditorium 11:00 11:50 Q&A PANEL Ground Floor Auditorium BOOKSTORE HOURS Friday, 5:00 PM to 8:30 PM; Saturday, 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM Ground Floor Lobby SCBWI Southern Breeze Spring Conference

4 Illustrators Day Friday, March 13, 2015 COST: SCBWI Members: $75.00 Students: $85.00 Non-Members: $ LUNCH: $8.50 (or you may bring your own or go into Decatur if you prefer) Illustrators Day Locations: All Sessions Held on the Ground Floor 8:30-9:00 AM PORTFOLIO CHECK-IN AND DISPLAY 9:00-9:50 Neal Porter How I Choose an Illustrator / How you Find a Publisher Neal Porter will share tales and tips on how to make your work appealing and visible to gatekeepers of the daunting, and often infuriating world of children s book publishing. 10:00-10:50 Guiseppe Castllano A Children s Book Art Department: An Inside Look Giuseppe Castellano shares insights from the five imprints he oversees at Penguin Young Readers Group. He ll discuss what his art department looks for in illustrators and what methods he uses to find them. The segment will also cover best practices in being a freelance illustrator. Attendees will gain a deeper insight into the day-to-day inner workings of a children s book art department. 11:00-11:50 MENTORSHIP FINALE WITH LORAINE JOYNER 12:00-1:00 PM LUNCH 1:00-1:50 Bill Mayer Life Imitates Art The award-winning illustrator Bill Mayer will show how to keep a sense of freshness in your work through experimentation. A sometimes risqué look inside the head of an illustrator through sketchbooks and personal work will give insight as to how we all make giant leaps in creativity through our personal endeavors. This presentation will probably leave you with the impression this guy should definitely be institutionalized. 2:00-3:00 QUICKFIRE PORTFOLIO REVIEW 3:15-3:50 Q&A 5:00-6:30 PORTFOLIO SHOW AND RECEPTION Industry Professionals, Galleries, Librarians and Attendees 6:30-7:00 BOOK LAUNCH PARTY 7:30-8:30 PUBLIC BOOK SIGNING 4 SCBWI Southern Breeze Spring Conference 2015

5 Optional Activities Friday, March 13, 2015 ILLUSTRATORS DAY MENTORSHIP COST: SCBWI Members: $65.00 Students: $75.00 Non-Members: $85.00 With Loraine Joyner After registration for this activity, Loraine will assign a project and work closely with Illustrators Day participants on honing their artwork, creating consistent characters, and illustrating a picture book layout, which she will assign. This is an fantastic opportunity to work one-on-one with one of the most experienced Art Directors in the business. Slots will fill quickly, so register fast! (Must be registered for Illustrators Day) QUICKFIRE PORTFOLIO REVIEW The first 25 to register for this FREE activity will have their portfolios reviewed by the Illustrators Day faculty. Each portfolio will be displayed for the audience, and comments will be made by the faculty. Time for each portfolio is limited to no more than two minutes each. You ll be surprised how much they cover in two minutes. PORTFOLIO DISPLAY Illustrators who are registered for Illustrators Day or Springmingle may display their portfolios at the reception on Friday. Portfolios should be brought to the conference. Please do not bring original art. For more information about preparing a portfolio, please visit LIZ CONRAD SCHOLARSHIP Open to Southern Breeze SCBWI members only, this scholarship provides funds for one budding illustrator to attend our Springmingle Conference. For application instructions, visit Deadline: December 15, SCBWI Southern Breeze Spring Conference

6 Springmingle Friday, March 13, 2015 COST: SCBWI Members: $75.00 Students: $85.00 Non-Members: $ :00-8:30 AM REGISTRATION Ground Floor 8 AM-3:30 PM OPTIONAL WRITERS INTENSIVE Meg Media 4:00-7:30 PM CONFERENCE REGISTRATION AND PORTFOLIO SET-UP Location: Ground Floor 5:00-6:30 PORTFOLIO SHOW AND RECEPTION Industry Professionals, Galleries, Librarians and Attendees Location: Ground Floor 6:30-7:00 BOOK LAUNCH PARTY 7:30-8:30 PUBLIC BOOK SIGNING Location: Ground Floor Lobby 6 SCBWI Southern Breeze Spring Conference 2015

7 Optional Activities Friday, March 13, 2015 WRITERS INTENSIVE WITH MEG MEDINA: MINING FOR STORIES COST: SCBWI Members: $75.00 Students: $85.00 Non-Members: $ LUNCH: $8.50 (or you may bring your own or go into Decatur if you prefer) Location: TBA Every story you will ever write is already waiting inside of you. Join Meg Medina as she leads you through exercises to access your memories and find your authentic voice, story lines, and characters. Please come prepared with a journal, glue stick, old magazine, and scissors all to help us produce a personal zine. ONE-ON-ONE WITH AGENT KAREN GRENCIK COST: SCBWI Members: $50.00 Students: $60.00 Non-Members: $75.00 Come spend 20 minutes one-on-one with literary agent Karen Grencik, who will answer questions and offer individualized advice and feedback. Bring your query or your first page for her comments. Or bring your Facebook page screenshot and most recent blog posts for marketing advice. Or even get advice on your career bring your one-year, three-year or five-year plans as a writer/illustrator, your royalty statement, or even some recent personal rejection letters. Get some advice on craft or marketing yourself and your work from one of the best! (Must be registered for the conference or Illustrators Day). One-on-One sessions occur throughout the day on Friday March 13. If you are registered for the Writers Intensive or Illustrators Day, we will try to avoid a conflict, but there are only a limited number of slots during breaks. SCBWI Southern Breeze Spring Conference

8 Book Launch and Public Book Signing Friday Evening, March 13, 2015 BOOK LAUNCH Please join us Friday evening from 6:30-8:30 PM at the Decatur Library to celebrate recently published books by our PAL (Published and Listed) members. SCBWI PAL members who register prior to February 2 are eligible to register for a three-minute launch of their new PAL books, published in the previous 12 months, on Friday evening, March 13, The launch will occur at a reception which will be open to SM/ID attendees, faculty, local professionals, and regional librarians. If you have a recently published book, but do not know if it qualifies, please update your SCBWI profile, and if it is a self-published book, apply to SCBWI and receive PAL status in accordance with SCBWI posted procedures. Only the first 20 PAL members to register will be eligible for this activity as time is limited. To ensure that your book is available in the bookstore, please your book title(s), ISBN, publisher, book cover image, and publication date to SBreezeLaunch@gmail.com no later than February 2, PUBLIC BOOK SIGNING Only SCBWI PAL members and speakers who register for the conference by February 2 may sell their books at the conference. If you are not sure if your books qualifies as a PAL book, please update your SCBWI profile. If you self published your book, it must be submitted and approved for PAL status prior to your registration. Thanks to FoxTale Book Shoppe, books by Southern Breeze PAL members and faculty will be for sale during the event and throughout the weekend. Authors and illustrators will be available for signing on Friday evening. This event is open to the public. To ensure that your books are available through the bookstore, please send no more than three book titles, ISBN, publisher, and publication dates to SBPALSigning@gmail.com no later than Feb. 2, BOOK STORE HOURS Friday, 5:00 PM to 8:30 Saturday, 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM Location: Ground Floor Lobby. 8 SCBWI Southern Breeze Spring Conference 2015

9 Springmingle Saturday, March 14, 2015 COST: SCBWI Members: $ Students: $ Non-Members: $ :30 8:30 AM REGISTRATION MORNING MINGLE COFFEE Location: Ground Floor Conference Room 8:30 9:00 Welcome and Opening Announcements 9:00 9:15 Introduction of Guests and Keynote Speakers 9:00 9:45 Keynote with Meg Medina Writing La Vida Loca: On Writing, Culture, and Children s Fiction Latino author Meg Medina discusses cultural identity and writing fiction for young readers at a time when diverse children s literature is critically needed. 10:00 10:50 FIRST BREAKOUT SESSIONS AND CRITIQUES Neal Porter The Art and Craft of Picture Books: Three Case Studies Join Neal Porter as he discusses three examples of picture book making--what worked, what didn t and why. Location: Ground Floor Conference Room 1 Karen Grencik 101+ Reasons for Rejection In this breakout session, we will cover the most common reasons for rejection and look at examples of real manuscripts and rejection letters. The handout gives actual reasons for rejection, which is not to discourage one but to show the in-depth analysis that each manuscript undergoes. By being aware of these examples, hopefully you can eliminate a few of the possible reasons for rejection before making your submissions. SCBWI Southern Breeze Spring Conference

10 Springmingle Saturday, March 14, :00 11:50 Keynote with Guiseppe Castellano Just Start: The Secret to Getting Ahead is Getting Started 12:00 1:00 PM LUNCH The hardest part to any creative endeavor is starting it. In this keynote address from multi-award winning art director, Giuseppe Castellano, attendees will hear how some of the greats got their start. Whether you re starting something as grand and undefinable as becoming an illustrator ; or something more focused like writing that book you have in your head, Giuseppe will discuss the simple steps to simply getting started. Bring your sketchbooks. Participation is required. Location: Ground Floor Lobby 12:00 1:00 PAL LUNCH MEETING Location: Fourth Floor Conference Room 1:00 1:50 SECOND BREAKOUT SESSIONS AND CRITIQUES Guiseppe Castellano A Conversation with an Art Director Attendees will engage in a more focused discussion about illustration with multiaward winning art director, Giuseppe Castellano. During the session, we will conduct a first look in which Giuseppe will review and critique up to three pieces per attendee. Bring your sketchbooks and your questions! The conversation doesn t end when the workshop does. Continue the conversation with Giuseppe, and read his popular #arttips series on Location: Ground Floor Conference Room 1 PAL Panel What an Author Needs to Know BEFORE the Book Comes Out 10 SCBWI Southern Breeze Spring Conference 2015

11 Springmingle Saturday, March 14, :00 2:50 THIRD BREAKOUT SESSIONS AND CRITIQUES Elise Howard Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Working with An Editor But Were Afraid To Ask This interactive session will begin with a few of my favorite stories about the editor/author relationship -- maybe the most uniquely intimate professional one you ll ever have. We ll address how to handle all kinds of situations ones you re in the middle of or ones you re just imagining you may one day face, from submission to publication and beyond. Bring questions! Meg Medina Marketing With Meaning Your platform! Facebook! Twitter! A blog! Marketing can drain your precious writing time and leave you wondering how authors find the time to be authors. Meg Medina discusses how to restructure your marketing vision to keep you focused and sane. Location: Ground Floor Conference Room 1 3:00 3:50 Keynote with Karen Grencik How to Succeed in this Challenging Industry 4:00 4:50 FIRST 8 Learn how to make the most of your conference experiences. Hear real stories of how connections made at SCBWI conferences have led to successful book deals. Learn the attitude and attributes that agents and editors look for in choosing the authors and illustrators with whom they work. Anonymous first pages are submitted in advance for use with a faculty panel in a general session. See page 13 for submission details. 5:00 6:00 Formal & Informal Critiques 6:30 9:00 DINNER AND GALA AT MAKAN RESTAURANT SCBWI Southern Breeze Spring Conference

12 Springmingle Sunday, March 15, :00 9:00 Formal Critiques Location: Ground Floor Conference Room 2 9:00 9:50 Keynote with Neal Porter Everything Old is New Again: Traditional Picture Books in a Digital Age Much of publishing has moved to the digital realm, with the notable exception of hardcover picture books, still going strong in an era of kindles and ipads. Despite astonishing advance in technology, no platform has come along that delivers the goods as efficiently and effectively as paper and print. Join Neal Porter in an in depth look at visual storytelling and learn how character development, story structure, and the almighty page turn still matter in a time of everdecreasing attention spans. 10:00 10:50 Keynote with Elise Howard The Small House Difference While consolidation of the largest publishing houses continues, there are many smaller, independent houses to consider when submitting your work some with long histories, others new to the industry. Using Algonquin Young Readers as my primary example, I ll talk about key similarities and differences in publishing at a small versus a large house and what to consider when submitting. 11:00 11:50 Q&A PANEL AND CLOSING ANNOUNCEMENTS 12 SCBWI Southern Breeze Spring Conference 2015

13 Additional Information FIRST 8 There is no additional fee for this activity, which occurs only at our Springmingle conference. The first eight lines of a manuscript are submitted in advance for use with a faculty panel in a general session. Please submit your title, genre, and only the first eight lines of text as a word document attached to an sent no later than midnight, March 2, addressed to First8Lines@gmail.com. Please use the subject line: First 8. Do not put your name or other identifying information on your attached text. Format should be in the same format as manuscripts submitted for formal critques. The maximum word count for the first eight lines is 180 words. Submissions will be divided into genre and a sampling will be read aloud at the conference. Note: Because this is a popular activity, we typically do not have time to read all of the submissions. Q&A PANEL Questions may be submitted in advance for presentation to the faculty panel on Sunday. Please send your questions in the body of an addressed to Claudia Pearson at pearsoncrz@earthlink.net using the subject line SM Q&A. PAL MEMBERS Book Sales Once again, FoxTale Book Shoppe will be handling our book sales THANKS Ellen! SCBWI members who attend and have Published and Listed (PAL) books are invited to participate in the conference book sale and autograph party. up to three titles (including ISBN, publisher, and date) to SBPALSigning@gmail.com no later than February 2, PAL Lunch Meeting - Fourth Floor Conference Room PAL Members are invited to carry their lunch to the 4th floor on Saturday at 12:00 for a discussionbased meeting. Send topics of interest to Cathy Hall, cathyhall55@hotmail.com. BOOK STORE HOURS FoxTale Book Shoppe will be open Friday, 5:00 PM to 8:30; Saturday, 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM in the Ground Floor Lobby. SCBWI Southern Breeze Spring Conference

14 Our Faculty Giuseppe Castellano is an award-winning Designer, Illustrator, and Art Director at Penguin Random House; with over sixteen years of book publishing experience. He oversees the imprints of Grosset & Dunlap, Price Stern Sloan, Frederick Warne and Co., the Penguin Young Readers, and Cartoon Network Books. Read more from Giuseppe, including his popular #arttips series for illustrators, on Sessions: A Conversation with an Art Director, Just Start: The Secret to Getting Ahead is Getting Started, A Children s Book Art Department: An Inside Look. Karen Grencik became a literary agent because of a man she admired. She wanted the world to know his life story, so she set out to make that happen. Double Luck, Memoirs of a Chinese Orphan, written by Lu Chi Fa with Becky White, went on to win The Parents Choice Gold Award for Best Nonfiction. Karen had found her passion in life and hasn t looked back. In June 2011 Karen joined forces with ex-random House editor Abigail Samoun to open Red Fox Literary, LLC. She currently represents both fiction and nonfiction children s books for all ages. Karen was one of the top-selling children s book agents in Bill Mayer, a renowned illustrator of exceptional talent and infectious good humor, graduated from Ringling College of Art where he met and married his wife Lee in His clientele includes most of the Fortune Five Hundred companies in the free world. With an ability to satisfy a varied range of business sectors, Bill works in illustration, advertising, design, character development, editorial, and consulting. He has won hundreds of national and international awards, reflecting his unique talents. Sessions: Life Imitates Art. Meg Medina s work examines how cultures intersect through the eyes of young people. Her books are: Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass, winner of the 2014 Pura Belpré medal; Tia Isa Wants a Car, winner of the 2012 Ezra Jack Keats award; The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind, and Milagros, the Girl From Away. Sessions: Writing La Vida Loca: On Writing, Culture, and Children s Fiction. Marketing With Meaning. Sessions: How to Succeed in this Challenging Industry, 101+ Reasons for Rejection. 14 SCBWI Southern Breeze Spring Conference 2015

15 Our Faculty Neal Porter has been in and around the children s book publishing industry for more than 30 years, holding marketing, editorial, or executive positions at houses such as Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Atheneum, Orchard, Dorling Kindersley, and Walker Books UK. In 2000 he decided to step away from administration and focus exclusively on editing. That year he helped to found Roaring Brook Press, now an imprint of the Macmillan Children s Book Group, where he is publisher of Neal Porter Books. Authors and illustrators he has worked with include Laura Vaccaro Seeger, Philip C. and Erin E. Stead, Yuyi Morales, Nick Bruel, Betsy and Ted Lewin, Antoinette Portis, and Jason Chin. Books he has edited have won numerous awards including the Caldecott Medal, three Caldecott Honors, two Theodore Geisel Honors, two Seibert Honors, the Coretta Scott King Award for illustration, two Pura Belpré awards, the Boston Globe- Horn Book Award, two Orbis Pictus Awards, and over 30 ALA Notable Citations. Elise Howard is the publisher of Algonquin Young Readers, which releases a dozen middle-grade and young adult books a year. Previously, Elise oversaw fiction publishing at HarperCollins. She started her career as a book packager, creating middlegrade and YA fiction series. At Avon Books, she launched the first teen trade paperback imprint. Elise has edited many award-winning books, include the Newbery Medal winner The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman. Sessions: The Small House Difference, Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Working with An Editor But Were Afraid To Ask. Sessions: The Art and Craft of Picture Books: Three Case Studies; How I Choose an Illustrator / How you Find a Publisher; Everything Old is New Again: Traditional picture books in a digital age. SCBWI Southern Breeze Spring Conference

16 Critiques FORMAL CRITIQUES Cost: $45.00 Submission Deadline: February 8 Southern Breeze offers three formal critique options: Face-to-Face Manuscript Critique, Faceto-Face Portfolio Review, Written-Only Manuscript Critique. Formal critiques are conducted by conference faculty (editors, agents, authors, illustrators) or other industry professionals who may or may not be in attendance. All written-only critiques are conducted by editors or agents. Face-to-Face critiques consist of a 12-minute meeting with the critiquer. Critiquers are asked to use the SCBWI Gold Form to ensure thorough critiques. Critiques are only available to registered conference attendees. Formatting: Use 12 point Arial or Times New Roman font, double-spaced. Set margins at 1 or larger. The header on the first page should include your name, address, telephone, and . The title and byline should appear a third way down the first page with text below. Do not include any illustrations or dummies. Questions? Read From Keyboard to Printed Page found at just-getting-started/. Length: Picture book or short story: submit entire mans. Poetry: submit up to six related poems (no more than ten pages) Longer works: submit only complete chapters, up to 10 pages, plus a one-page synopsis Submission: Portfolios for review should be brought to the conference. Manuscript should be in a printable format (.doc,.docx,.rtf, or,pdf). Submit a manuscript for face-to-face critique to sbface2facecrits@gmail.com. For a writtenonly critique, send to sbwrittencrits@gmail.com. Subject line of should be: Formal Critique - [TITLE OF MANUSCRIPT] - Please indicate in the the genre of your manuscript. Please send file as an attachment. INFORMAL CRITIQUES Cost: FREE Conference attendees will gather in small groups to critique each others work. There is no charge for this activity. During online registration, indicate which genre you will be bringing. On the day of the conference, bring at least five copies of your work, no more than 2500 words please. 16 SCBWI Southern Breeze Spring Conference 2015

17 Registration SCBWI SOUTHERN BREEZE FALL CONFERENCE TUITION Conference Workshops SCBWI Members: $ ($15 discount for those attending intensive or ID) Students: $ Non-Members: $ After March 9: $ Lunch: $8.50 (you may bring your own or go into Decatur if you prefer) Optional Writing Intensive (registration for Springmingle is required) or Illustrators Day (registration for Springmingle is not required) SCBWI Members: $75.00 Students: $85.00 Non-Members: $ Lunch: $8.50 (or you may bring your own or go into Decatur if you prefer) Optional One-on-One Sessions with Agent Karen Grencik (registration for ID or SM is required) SCBWI Members: $50.00 Students: $60.00 Non-Members: $75.00 Optional Formal Critiques: $45.00 Submission Deadline: February 8 To Register, go to SCBWI Southern Breeze Spring Conference

18 Locations and Hotel Information CONFERENCE HOTEL Courtyard Atlanta Decatur Downtown/Emory 130 Clairemont Avenue Decatur, Georgia USA Phone: (404) Special Conference Block Room Rates: Two Queen Beds or One King Bed, also includes wi-fi, $135.00/night Group Code: SCB Note: Reserve early! The conference block may fill quickly. EVENT LOCATIONS All Illustrators Day and Springmingle Sessions Located at: Decatur Library, 215 Sycamore Street, Decatur, GA Saturday Evening Gala: Makan Restaurant, 130 Clairemont Ave., (Inside the Courtyard Decatur Downtown Hotel) FOR MORE INFORMATION Registration: Claudia Pearson at General: Lisa Stauffer at WIK15 FACULTY PREVIEW: EB Lewis, SCBWI Board Member and award winning artist Hester Bass, award winning picture book author Harold Underdown, independent consultant, editor and Highlights instructor Allyn Johnston, VP and publisher, Beachlane Books Rubin Pfeffer, agent, Rubin Pfeffer Content 18 SCBWI Southern Breeze Spring Conference 2015