Kidlit Con 2010

*Thanks to Blythe Woolston for the idea for the YouTube clip on Kurtis’s blog. Very appropriate. The ghost of Ricardo Montalban will be hosting in Seattle next year.

Sunday, October 24, 2010

KidLit Con Aftermath

The Flickr Group.

The #tag

Coming soon, the PowerPoints.

Thanks for a great weekend!

Friday, October 22, 2010

The conference starts on Saturday at Open Book (home of The Loft Literary Center). Check-in begins at 7:30 AM. I We hope you can all make it tonight--Friday night--to a reception followed by a presentation and Q & A about online critique groups by Maggie Stiefvater, Brenna Yovanoff, and Tessa Gratton. The reception starts at 6:00 and is also at Open Book.

Here's a map from the conference hotel (an easy walk):

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Update: For those who are local or driving to the conference: President Obama will be attending a rally at the U of M on Saturday. While we don't anticipate this affecting much, it may be helpful to keep this in mind when planning your driving routes to and from Open Book (as it's not all that far from the campus). Basically, avoid the U.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Saturday Dinner

The eating delights of downtown Minneapolis are many, and if you have extra days in town, I encourage you to explore (or ask me—I live to recommend). One dinner, however, is taken care of, and that’s Saturday night, when we close out the conference at Town Hall Brewery, conveniently located next the conference hotel.

The restaurant needs to know our order ahead of time, so we’ll be asking you to pick one of the following at check in on Saturday:

1. Raspberry Spring Chicken Salad: Grilled Cajun chicken on a
bed of house blend greens topped with tomatoes, cucumbers, red
onions, crumbled blue cheese and almonds—served with raspberry
cream vinaigrette on the side. Also available without chicken.

2. Seven Corners Burger: Our most popular burger… grilled ½ lb.
burger topped with melted provolone cheese; smoked bacon and
Oatmeal Stout BBQ sauce.

3. Fat Tony’s Sausage Lasagna: Homemade lasagna
loaded with Italian sausage, onions, mushrooms, roasted red
peppers, spinach, homemade marinara sauce and a blend
of ricotta, Parmesan, provolone and goat cheese.

Town Hall is a brew pub, so beverage options will abound—but you’re on your own there. If you’re bringing a spouse, let us know at check-in. We’ll collect $10 to cover him or her.

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Any teachers or librarians want to be on a panel?

I'm looking for a couple teachers or librarians who've got experience booking authors and illustrators for visits. I'd like you to join a couple authors and illustrators on a panel about how technology, social networking, and blogging have affected school and library visits. I'm really interested in people who've got long perspective on this. All you'd need to do is sit there and answer questions and participate in the conversation. Shoot me an email at akarre@lernerbooks.com.

Thanks!

Registration List

AS of 10/21/10, the list below represents all paid attendees. If you sent in a registration from but don't see your name below, please send us an e-mail at kidlitcon2010 at gmail dot com.

Alea Adou

Kathi Appelt

Jeannine Atkins

Swati Avasthi

Amanda Baird

Georgia Beaverson

Kim Bettcher

Ilsa Bick

Lisa Jenn Bigelow

Susan Taylor Brown

Steve Brezenoff

Lisa Bullard

Dori Butler

Elizabeth Burns

Pam Coughlan

Kellye Crocker

Kirstin Cronn-Mills

Michele Corriel

Nina Crittenden

Elissa Cruz

Sarah Dahl

Rebecca Fjelland Davis

Brittany Delacy

Elizabeth Dingmann

Karla Duff

Tammy Durant

Elizabeth Fixmer

Jackie Flaherty

Jill Foltz

Janet Fox

Melissa Fox

Abigail Goben

Tessa Gratton

Mary Lee Hahn

Julie Harman

Tara Heying

Jacqueline Houtman

Deborah Lynn Jacobs

Kelly Jensen

Rebecca Johnson

Maureen Kearney

Valerie Kemp

Tina Laurel Lee

Marcia Lerner

Rosanne Lindsay

Anne Marie

Megan Markiewicz

Kathy Martin

Krissy Mohn

Tunie Munson-Benson

Nathalie Mvondo

Sarah Olmanson

Gillia Olson

Steven Palmquist

Vicki Palmquist

Natalie C. Parker

Peter Pearson

Adela Peskorz

Katie Polley

Alice Pope

Camille Powell

Carol Rasco

Jen Robinson

Christina Rodriguez

Amber Ross

Laura Purdie Salas

Kurtis Scaletta

Catherine Schaff-Stump

Haley Scharf

Beverly Sharp

Stephen Shaskan

Trisha Speed Shaskan

Toby Speed

Sarah J. Stevenson

Alison Can Read

Susan Marie Swanson

Margo Tanenbaum

Charlotte Taylor

Amy Ludwig VanDerwater

Jan von Harz

Valerie Struthers Walker

Mia Wenjen

Melissa Wiley

Rebecca Wojahn

Blythe Woolston

Kidlit Con 2010

Pages

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

KidtlitCon 2010 Blog Roll

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Presentations

Monday, October 25, 2010

Recapping the recaps