Adult Program Story by Rebecca Sheraton Tanya Batt led an interactive workshop with authors and illustrators, demonstrating the power of oral storytelling. It’s like we were kids again! She loves to start each session with a story, which helps groups of people, strangers or companions to connect. One technique that engages children is telling foot stories and having children join in the actions through their feet. Another fantastic technique is ‘What’s in the sack?’ She loves pulling out objects, particularly the characters hare and tortoise, to introduce children to the famous Aesop’s fable. She also enjoys using story improvisation or story making connected to objects in the sack. This can include drawing out an object like a key, and asking the audience open questions such as ‘I wonder …’ to inspire children to create their own story. Tanya recommended that all workshop teachers set clear expectations for children participating in their workshops. All the adults enjoyed the fun-filled workshop and can’t wait to test out their stories on a young audience.
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Adult Program Story by Rebecca Sheraton Coral Tulloch is an illustrator who loves the challenge of researching. She also enjoys walking her dog with an Antarctic Scientist most days. Their deep conversations have led to Coral becoming fascinated by research. One interesting fact she learnt about was the magnetic poles in the world move around. This inspired the idea for her book The Journey, the amazing locations and puzzles the reader has to solve along the way. She also likes to see people draw everyday objects and create a story around them. Coral has been working with Mark Greenwood on a book and they both share a love of stones. Thank you Coral for sharing your stories about research and how this shows up in your illustration work. Adult Program Story by Rebecca Sheraton This interesting session gave us a chance to meet three people working in publishing in Queensland from Wombat Books, Rhiza Press, Yellow Brick Books and Word Wings. Rochelle Manners is the owner and editor of Wombat Books (children’s) and Rhiza Press (young adult). Rochelle loves to publish books for school aged children and she describes the purpose of the books on her list is that they provide entertainment of small issues and have a takeaway message. She doesn’t publish board books or counting books. Ann-Marie Finn is both an illustrator and publisher with Yellow Brick Books. She loves picture books because they are visually appealing. Ann-Marie likes quirky, fun and humorous stories. Next year she will publish 5 books and they are open to submissions. JR Poulter has established her business called Word Wings. She explained how she likes to hire and collaborate with illustrators for her books that she has written. Thank you to these ladies for sharing your knowledge with the conference attendees. Adult Program Story by Rebecca Sheraton Julieann Wallace and Emma Mactaggart introduced attendees to various forms of self-publishing. Both ladies are accomplished Indie publishers and bring a wealth of other skills. Julieann publishes under Lilly Pilly Publishing and Emma has Boogie Books, Child Writes, a program for children aged 9-12 and several other businesses. Both Julieann and Emma spoke about the many different publishing options including:
Julieann and Emma spoke about the considerations for Indie publishing. The author has 100% of the profits and you are your own publisher and decision-maker. Part of the process is buying your own ISBN, sourcing your own printer, deciding on sizes and formatting and setting up eBooks. The author will earn 70% of royalties. The lead time to launch an Indie book is approximately 2 years until the launch, whereas with traditional publishing it can be as short as 6 months. Tips for successful Indie publishing:
Thanks for all the advice Julieann and Emma. |
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