The Serpent's Fury. a midle-grade novel
by Kelley Armstrong a NYT #1 bestselling author
and one of Brian's students
Writing for Children and for Young Adults
~ The world’s hottest market
With Scholastic Books Executive Editor
~ Anne
Shone
Saturday, January 28, 2023
1:15 – 5:00 p.m.
Online via Zoom and accessible wherever there’s Internet
If you want to write the next best-selling children’s books or just want to create stories for your
own kids, this workshop is for you. Learn how to write stories kids and young
adults will love and find out what you need to know to sell your book. This is
your chance to speak with someone within a publishing company in a small group
setting and to pull back the curtain and see how it all works. Be sure to bring
your questions – we'll have lots of time for interaction.
Special option: Participants are invited to submit the opening couple pages (first 500
words) of your children’s book or young adult novel (or up to 1,000 words if
that gets you to the end of your picture book or to the end of your first
chapter). Email your pages to me prior to our workshop. We want to do
some peer critiquing for everyone, and Anne and I will publicly critique half a
dozen submissions so everyone can see what works, what doesn’t, and how to
improve your story-telling. If you’re not currently working on a
children’s story, don’t worry, we’ll get you started! ~Brian
Guest speaker Anne Shone is the
Executive Editor at Scholastic Canada, where she acquires books for
publication. Anne has worked in book publishing for over twenty-five
years, concentrating on children’s books for the last twenty. In that
time, she has worked with many of the top children’s book authors and
illustrators in this country.
Recent highlights include: picture books (Choose Kindness by
Ruth Ohi, Do You Wonder? by Wallace
Edwards, and about-to-be released Smile So Big by
Sunshine Tenasco, illustrated by Chief Lady Bird); graphic novels (The Good
Fight, by Ted Staunton, illustrated by Josh Rosen); novels (Autumn Bird
and the Runaway by Melanie Florence and Richard Scrimger; Eight
Days by Teresa Toten; P.S. Tell No One by Vikki
VanSickle; and the Hockey Super Six series by Kevin
Sylvester); nonfiction (Keep Up, Katmai by Barrett Hedges and Pili
Palm-Leis; and It Seemed Like a Good Idea…. by Ted
Staunton and Will Staunton)—with lots of new and exciting things in
development.
Workshop leader Brian Henry has
been a book editor, author, and creative writing instructor for more than 25
years. He publishes Quick Brown Fox, Canada’s most popular blog for
writers and is the author of a children’s version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde (Tribute Publishing Inc). But his proudest boast is that
he’s has helped many of his students get published.
Read reviews of Brian’s classes and workshops here.
Fee: $43.36 + 13% hst = $49 paid
in advance by mail or Interac
To reserve a spot now, email: brianhenry@sympatico.ca
See all of Brian’s upcoming weekly
writing classes, one-day workshops, and weekend retreats here.
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