Martha Brockenbrough offers the first in our series of SCBWI TEAM BLOG pre-conference faculty interviews starting us out with the terrific Jane Yolen!Here's a bit from Martha's interview with Jane (in which, Martha says, "she debuts the new BIC.")
Without the mighty badge of the SCBWI national blog team to hide behind, I'd never have the guts to approach Jane Yolen for an interview.
She's Jane Yolen! Author of more than 300 books! A Caldecott Medalist and Golden Kite winner! Likened unto Hans Christian Anderson! Also, as far as I can tell, she is bionic. There is otherwise no way to explain how she writes so many fabulous books.
You might already know these things about Jane, though.
But did you know that she coined the acronym B.I.C. for "butt in chair"? Did you further know she was the second author ever to join the SCBWI? And that she was the organization's first regional adviser? She founded and for a decade ran the New England region.
Click here to read the full interview with Jane Yolen.
Click here to register for the Annual Winter Conference and see Jane--and a number of other equally wonderful faculty--in person.
Wow, I had just been reading Jane's "Take Joy, A Writer's Guide to Loving the Craft" earlier today, and quoted from it on my latest blog post. Thanks for the link to Martha's interview. I really enjoyed it, and the video :-)
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