{"id":319,"date":"2019-03-28T21:17:31","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T21:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/miristone.com\/?p=319"},"modified":"2019-03-28T21:19:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T21:19:52","slug":"im-a-scbwi-mentee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miristone.com\/?p=319","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a SCBWI Mentee!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For the past six months, I&#8217;ve been lucky enough to a mentee for the SCBWI 2018 Mentorship Program. This program has proved to be an extraordinary opportunity. I&#8217;ve been able to work with kids lit author Lois Brandt to refine two manuscripts and received some invaluable coaching on writing query letters. I really can&#8217;t recommend this program enough! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>When I was selected for this program, I was thrilled to hear that I would be working with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loisbrandt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Lois Brandt  (opens in a new tab)\">Lois Brandt <\/a>as my mentor. She is the author of &#8220;Maddie&#8217;s Kitchen&#8221; a gorgeous children&#8217;s picture book tackling childhood hunger in schools as seen through the eyes of two best friends. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/86b64c_0dbacc62fb1742ecbe240a201b972e93.jpg\/v1\/fill\/w_822,h_740,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01\/86b64c_0dbacc62fb1742ecbe240a201b972e93.webp\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s an inspiring and conversation-provoking picture book for your bookshelf. Grab yourself a copy at your favorite local bookstore or on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Amazon (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1936261294\/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=center-2&amp;pf_rd_r=0A0KSBXCSR1MKMA5BFV1&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=1688200382&amp;pf_rd_i=507846\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the mentorship wraps up, I&#8217;m even get a firm kick up the butt to start submissions. So don&#8217;t be surprised if ZOE THE PUNK ROCK UNICORN AND HER IMAGINARY FRIENDS or TEARS FOR LADYBUG lands in your query inbox soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past six months, I&#8217;ve been lucky enough to a mentee for the SCBWI 2018 Mentorship Program. This program has proved to be an extraordinary opportunity. I&#8217;ve been able to work with kids lit author Lois Brandt to refine two manuscripts and received some invaluable coaching on writing query letters. I really can&#8217;t recommend this program enough!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14,15,17,11,16,10,12,13],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-author","tag-childrens-picture-books","tag-kids-lit","tag-mentorship","tag-picture-books","tag-scbwi","tag-scbwi-mentee","tag-writing-mentorship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miristone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miristone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miristone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miristone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miristone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/miristone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/miristone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miristone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miristone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miristone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}