SCBWI Summer Conference report reposted for public access

It turns out that the report I posted earlier can only be viewed by those who have SCBWI website accounts, so the SCBWI Illustration Committee kindly granted me permission to repost somewhere publicly accessible. So here's the link, with EXTRA photos:

How a rejection got me a book deal: My career-changing SCBWI Summer Conference experience

No Blatherings until early August



(Above: Beckett and me)

Just a heads-up that I won't posting any Blatherings until after I get back from my trip to L.A. for the SCBWI Conference and to visit with friends.

Please don't yell at me if you live in or near L.A. and I didn't let you know I was coming -- the conference is work-related and it's highly unlikely that I'll be spending any time outside of it. The friends I'm visiting afterward are longtime personal pals and friends of the family, and I wish I could be staying with them longer as it is.

Looking forward to doing some catching up with my friend Beckett Gladney, though! We're going to be roomies during the conference.