Back from SCBWI Washington! So fun, so inspiring, and it went so fast! This was the first SCBWI conference for my sister and myself. We were overwhelmed and in awe! We had a blast, as it was a mommy weekend and we relished in only having to take care of ourselves for a change!
I have just some random photos here. The coolest picture is the link at the bottom from a Twitter post by Egmont USA editor Elizabeth Law @egmontgal. She is hilarious and my sister and I loved that she had a poster of R Patt in her office! In her picture we ended up sitting at the cool table with agents, editors, and published authors, like our supercool guide .
I loved hearing the writing journey of everyone I met–unpublished, published, agented, unagented–everything. A highlight for me was definitely the inspirational keynote by the genuinely kind and wonderful Jay Asher www.thirteenreasonswhy.com/. The book store ran out of his book so they are mailing me one. Jay was kind enough to sign bookplates for those of us without the book. I bought many other books–don’t tell my DH–and met many other authors who were just as kind and humble as Jay.
I am super sleepy right now so this post is just a mini-scrapbook of my experience at the conference. From left to right the pictures are: me and my sister, cards from some of the writers I met (I sooo enjoyed meeting everyone and please say ‘hi’ if you came to check out my blog! I’ll be checking all of yours tomorrow!), my supercool bookplate signed by Jay Asher (I couldn’t get the picture to rotate), my name tag (because I am a dork and I save stuff like this), me again, with and my sis . I am really ticked I don’t have anymore pictures! I took a lot but now I realize that I did–it was just with other people’s cameras!
Anyway, we had a blast and I can’t wait for SCBWI next year!
Don’t forget to check out this awesome picture. I am the idiot on the end who turned to tell Tara something at the last minute. Oops.
The cool picture:
http://twitpic.com/1eq7fo
shannon grogan, young adult author 
I try to update now and then, but I find it hard. I also have a group blog:http://pentales.blogspot.com.
See you around!
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Hey you! How was your visit to the Great Northwest? I visited your blog yesterday but didn’t leave a comment because the post was old and I wasn’t sure you’d get it. Thanks for visiting and saying ‘hi’! Great to meet you and good luck with your writing! I’ll check out your blog in a few days, I’m sure you’ll have something new by then, huh? 🙂
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Hi Shannon,
It was nice to meet you. I sat behind you at the Edward Necarsulmer speech and gave you the Prince Balthazar card. We talked about the Blueboards. Remember?
Anyway, glad you had a nice time and I wish you well with your writing.
Hi Molly! It was great to meet you too! Hey, thanks for reminding me-I need to check out all these blogs from the cards I recieved. I’m coming to check yours now 🙂
Hi Shannon! I just wanted to say a quick hello! I’m glad I got to meet you and Tara at the conference. It really was a blast. I’m still coming down from the clouds! So glad you were as inspired as I was. The conference was bursting with it! Cheers!
It was a blast! Plus just having the mommy weekend and worrying about only ourselves. So fun!
Hi Karen, yeah, it is so awesome to have my sister to do this with, to be on this journey with. We felt like the dorks at the cool table but we had lots of fun!
Oh man, I am so saving up for next year-I’m addicted! I wasn’t real excited to go because I’ve been to so many as a teacher (boring) but this was so much different!
Thanks, Carrie! Your books were there and I can’t wait to read them! Your agent had a section for books he represented-what a great guy!
What fun for you and Tara to have that time together with all those other amazing folks!
Wow, Shannon, you were at the cool table!!! Looks like a great conference. It’s so nice that you can do this stuff with your sister too.
I’m so glad you both had a great time — conferences can be amazing experiences 😉
I am so glad you had a good time!