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This week we had a lot of success stories. It shows that working on your craft and coming out to writing and illustrating events clearly play a role in future successes.

I know everyone will be happy to hear a few success stories.

Sladjana Vasic won the September 2011 e-Book Cover Design Award, for a Nonfiction e-book.

I could not find a picture of Beth Ferry, but Beth has a big feather in her hat. She signed with agent Elena Mechlin at Pippin Properties for her Stick and Stone story – a direct result of attending our June conference.

Here is Tara Lazar with her Agent Ammi-Joan Paquette. If you attended the 2011 June Conference you most likely met Ammi-Joan. Tara sold her first book, THE MONSTORE, at the end of last year. Now Ammi-Joan at Erin Murphy Literary Agency has sold Tara Lazar’s second book, I THOUGHT THIS WAS A BEAR BOOK to Alyson Heller at Aladdin.

  
  
Darlene Beck-Jacobson signed with agent Liza Flessig at the Royce Agency for her historcial novel – a direct result of attending our June conference.

Jody Staton’s story won her a spot in the “Writers at Camden” Community Workshop in conjunction with Rutger’s University.

Congratulations everyone! Something good is waiting for the rest of you reading this – I just know it!

Talk tomorrow,

Kathy

6 Comments on Lots of Kudos, last added: 10/25/2011

Sladjana was born in Yugoslavia 1973. Here is what she sent me:

We moved a few times before my art high school.  1992 year was my high school graduation year and beginning of the civil war in Sarajevo, BiH, Yugoslavia. We become refugees and with all that confusion I didn’t have all I needed to apply for Art University. So, instead of that I went to the teacher college with the idea to use my creativity in work with children .I start working in the day care for children age 3 – 7. That was a great experience  for me .Few years later publisher  “ Zavod za udjbenike”   http://www.zavod.co.rs/  offered me to illustrate school  books on  Rusin language ( I am bilingual, rusin is one and serbian is other language) .First one  is published in 1999 and other in 2000 year.Then I get married and had a child so ,drawing  and illustrating somehow become more of a hobby then a profession .

Working with children gave me opportunity to try myself in making toys ,sets for children plays, murals. After 12 years of work at day care , getting married and having a daughter we come here to NJ , USA. Here I started to draw again with support of my family and Mrs. Janet  Wong. In addition to everything else she did for me ,she sent me a link to NJSCBWI logo contest. Attending a NJSCBWI conference was new and excited experience. 

If you attended the NJSCBWI conference in June, you will remember that Sladjana won the award for this year’s logo contest. 

Now I’m working  on a few picture books .One of them is “ Luna goes to the mall” –about a playful and happy octopus .She like chocolate chip cookies and jumping on the bed .But her favorite thing to do is –going to the mall. I am still searching  for the best background solution  and environment for her. 

I tried to make Luna the octopus to be a real girl to see  how she would look like and that become another story : “ MY beautiful girl” with similar content but her favorite thing is going to the playground and she has a cat named zoee to make her company in her adventures .