{"id":721,"date":"2009-06-03T20:05:29","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T03:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=721"},"modified":"2009-06-03T20:07:24","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T03:07:24","slug":"things-to-do-before-june-8th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/things-to-do-before-june-8th\/","title":{"rendered":"Things to do before June 8th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/ce.byu.edu\/cw\/writing\/images\/banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"58\" \/><\/p>\n<p>BYU&#8217;s Writing and Illustrating for Young Readers conference is coming up in less than a week, and I&#8217;m pretty excited for it!  I&#8217;m signed up for the afternoon sessions only, but it should still be a great experience.  From what I&#8217;ve heard, this conference is several steps up from CONduit and LTUE in terms of professionalism, and I want to be ready.  Here&#8217;s my list of things to do to prepare:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spot edit <em>Genesis Earth<\/em> for the really major stuff that I can reasonably fix in the next few days&#8211;especially the first three chapters.  A lot of the feedback I&#8217;m getting suggests that this novel might comfortably fit in the YA genre, which means that I&#8217;ve actually got something I can market to these agents and editors.  I want it to be ready (or, barring perfection, at least as ready as I can make it).<\/li>\n<li>Work out a good elevator pitch for <em>Genesis Earth<\/em>.  I&#8217;m not going to ambush anyone with it, but I want to be ready in case I get into a conversation with an agent\/editor and they ask about it.<\/li>\n<li>Research all of the agents\/editors\/authors coming.  The list is <a href=\"http:\/\/ce.byu.edu\/cw\/writing\/bios.cfm\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Polish shoes.<\/li>\n<li>Do laundry.<\/li>\n<li>Iron shirts.<\/li>\n<li>Shave.  Probably every day of this thing.<\/li>\n<li>Get business cards?  I&#8217;m not entirely sure about this.  I suppose it couldn&#8217;t hurt.  Anyone know where I could get a few dozen cheap\/free ones on short notice?<\/li>\n<li>Brush up on recommended conference etiquette.  Miss Snark has <a href=\"http:\/\/misssnark.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/be-all-you-can-beand-less.html\">several<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/misssnark.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/making-conversation-with-agents-at.html\">great<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/misssnark.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/what-to-wear-to-conference-in-nyc-in.html\">posts<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/misssnark.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/pitch-sessions-at-writing-conferences.html\">on<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/misssnark.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/writing-conference-roulette.html\">this<\/a> in the archives of her <a href=\"http:\/\/misssnark.blogspot.com\">blog<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Buy\/reuse a cheap notebook and get ready to take lots and lots of notes.  Sorry, guys, I probably won&#8217;t be recording or posting mp3s of this conference.  It&#8217;s not a fan event, after all, and I don&#8217;t want to do anything that would get me in trouble.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anything else I&#8217;m leaving out?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BYU&#8217;s Writing and Illustrating for Young Readers conference is coming up in less than a week, and I&#8217;m pretty excited for it! I&#8217;m signed up for the afternoon sessions only, but it should still be a great experience. From what I&#8217;ve heard, this conference is several steps up from CONduit and LTUE in terms of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/things-to-do-before-june-8th\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Things to do before June 8th<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[144,89,143,82,46,80,81,119,142],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-byu-writing-and-illustrating-for-young-readers-2009","tag-career-decisions","tag-conduit-2009","tag-conventions","tag-goals-and-plans","tag-ltue-2009","tag-networking","tag-summer-2009","tag-summer-plans","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-bD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":735,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions\/735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}