Non-fiction genius Susan Blackaby is the author of more than 100 books–most of them non-fiction. She’s genius at finding the fun in a stack of facts and making it all sing on the pages. She’ll talk to the league about making great non-fiction stories.
The League of Exceptional Writers is a free mentoring program sponsored by the Oregon Society of Children’s book Writers and Illustrators and hosted by the Cedar Hills Powell’s Bookstore. We meet every second Saturday at 2pm from October to May. Avid readers and writers ages 8 to 18 are welcome. Please share the poster below with your friends, your school and your library.
The Last to Die, will share with the league how to make the setting and characters of your story to work together to make each other stronger.
Hannah Holt is the debut author of The Diamond and the Boy a picture book about diamonds and the person who figured out how to make them. She is going to talk about how to take people from your own family tree and find the seed of a unique and brilliant story.
Barbara Kerley is the author of Following Baxter a sweet story for anyone who has ever gotten a crush on a dog. She will be sharing her strategies for using research in your writing.