Manuscript Formatting
Submission Checklist
The way your manuscript is formatted and submitted is your professional calling card.
Click here to view a manuscript checklist to make sure you properly format your submission. 

Sample Format
Click here to view a sample of the first two pages of a properly formatted manuscript.

"First Pages" Format
Many SCBWI events have a session devoted to the reading of First Pages of manuscripts-in-progress. Click here to learn how to format your First Pages submission.

What is a Critiquenic?
Click here to find out!

Critique Group Connection
Searching for a critique group in your area (Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Kern counties)? Are you running a group and would like more members? Please let us know. Click to email Ann Rousseau Smith, critique group coordinator.

Join Our Regional Listserv
Sign up for our listserv, an online community for SCBWI Central-Coastal California members.
Click on this link to get started: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCBWI-CCal/
Questions? Click to email Gwen Dandridge, listserv administrator.

Participate in our Monthly Book Talk
Book Talk is a monthly book discussion group taking place on the SCBWI Central-Coastal California listserv. As the facilitator of Book Talk, Lynn Becker polls members for interests, chooses books for discussion, schedules when the books will be discussed, and kicks off discussions on the first of each month. Readers may join in anytime during the month with comments, questions, or anything else they care to contribute about the featured book. Books are chosen to reflect a variety of genres. Lynn says, "We try to discuss them from both the pleasure of the reading experience, as well as to address points of interest to ourselves as writers." Book Talk is open to all members of Southern California SCBWI who are signed up for the regional listserv.
Questions? Click to email Lynn Becker, Book Talk discussion leader

Upcoming Book Talks

June: Inside Out and Back Again, by Thanhha Lai
Girl from Saigon moves to Alabama during the Vietnam War, told in free verse.
National Book Award winner.

July: I Want My Hat Back, by Jon Klassen
Funny, subversive, appealingly original art and design.

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