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Web Pages of Former Southern Breeze Conference Speakers

Evelyn Gallardo - The "One Woman Show" who presented "Promotion With Pizzazz" at Springmingle 2000!

Sue Alexander - Leader of a Picture Book Workshop for Southern Breezers in 1998.

Harold Underdown's Purple Crayon - A great resource for children's writers from the Keynote Speaker at the Southern Breeze 1993 Spring Conference and the Southern Breeze Springmingle '98 Conference.

Larry Dane Brimner - The Keynote Speaker at the Southern Breeze 1993 Fall Conference and a speaker at the Southern Breeze 1998 Fall Conference. Larry also led the highly successful Early Reader Retreat in July 2000.

Chuck Galey - Southern Breeze illustrator who spoke at the 1998 Fall Conference.

Mary LaFleur - Singer and song writer who spoke at SpringMingle '98.

Karen Stormer Brooks - Southern Breeze illustrator who was a speaker at the '99 Fall Conference and assisted Jody Taylor at the Illustrators' Retreat in June 2000.

Other SCBWI Regional Web Site

Click here for a list of SCBWI's other regional web sites.

Other Web Sites of Interest

Alabama Writers’ Forum - A partnership of the Alabama State Council on the Arts.

The current list of publishers who are members of the Children's Book Council. This doesn't list individual editors, but does say what sort of submissions each firm is interested in. That information is updated about every month, more often than SCBWI's longer and more detailed report, so it's a good supplement.

Phyllis Cahill - A full time professional illustrator and an SCBWI regional advisor. Her site includes links to great sites for illustrators plus an article she wrote on how to prepare yourself and your portfolio to visit NYC.

Publishers Weekly - The international news magazine of book publishing and bookselling.

Colossal Directory of Children's Publishers - Southern Breeze member Sandra Cook has listed web sites for a number of children's publishers who make their submission guidelines available online. Thanks, Sandra!

Chicken Soup Press

The Author Corner - Sponsored by the Carroll County Public Library in Westminster, Maryland.

The Reading Corner - Sponsored by the Carroll County Public Library in Westminster, The Reading corner has a section with book reviews written by Western Michigan College undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in children's and young adult literature and by WMC school library media instructors.

Smithsonian Institution - Stay home and explore the Smithsonian!

The Bookwire Index - Children's publishers

WritersNet - A list of literary agents.

The New York Times Book Review

Birmingham Public Library

American Library Association

The deGrummond Collection at the Univ. of Southern Mississippi

Medical Research Information

Out of Print Book Sites

Book finder
Advanced Book Exchange
Bibliofind
Alibris
Bilbiocity (for rare and collectible books)

Postal Zip Code Information

The National Address Server
U.S. Postal Service

Writers' Conference Database - A searchable database of 480+ writers' conferences, seminars and workshops. Search by location, date, subject matter and other categories. Even identify conferences by who is attending!