{"id":44,"date":"2011-05-16T17:28:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T22:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/?p=44"},"modified":"2011-05-16T17:30:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T22:30:35","slug":"a-success-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"A success story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I was lucky enough to attend my fourth New England Society for Children&#8217;s Book Writers and Illustrators AKA NESCBWI (worst acronym ever) Conference and it was a doozy. The keynotes speakers were Jane Yolen and Tomie DePaola, both known mostly for their work in pictu<a href=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/lemonade-mouth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 4px 10px; border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"lemonade-mouth\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/lemonade-mouth-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/lemonade-mouth-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/lemonade-mouth.jpg 666w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a>re books, but Jane Yolen has a few novels in her 200 publications. My favorite presentation was given by Mark Peter Hughes, the author of <em>Lemonade Mouth<\/em>, which is now a Disney Channel movie. A hit one at that. Truth is, probably more kids have seen that movie than <em>Prom<\/em>, which was the movie Disney released a few weeks ago (and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/?p=21\"> Renata blogged about<\/a>). My friend Shoshana (Hi Shoshana! Check out her blog <a href=\"http:\/\/walktheridgepole.blogspot.com\/\">here<\/a>) works at a bookstore and said copies have been flying off the shelf. I read <em>Lemonade Mouth<\/em> three years ago, when I attended my first Whispering Pines Retreat and MPH (Not NPH, but just as cute and funny) was the mentor. He is a Rhode Islander like me, and sets his novels in my home state. I was so happy when I heard that <em>Lemonade Mouth<\/em> was becoming a movie, because I knew how big that this was. It is fantastic to see a local guy get success like this.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I digress. His workshop was entitle Help! Help! I&#8217;m Stuck! and while I&#8217;m bound by the oath of NESCBWI to not discuss the details on my blog, let me say that I&#8217;m excited to continue writing my novel. Just seeing him there so excited to talk about the craft we both share and know that he is turning non-readers into readers at this very moment is exciting.<\/p>\n<p>The theme of the conference was something about Milestones because it was the 25th year and there was a lot of talking about the success stories that have come from SCBWI and it gave me some hope and goals. For now, though, I&#8217;m just going to plug along on my novel and read my YA novels and dream that someday I&#8217;ll be standing in front of a room of pre-published writers with a story to tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I was lucky enough to attend my fourth New England Society for Children&#8217;s Book Writers and Illustrators AKA NESCBWI (worst acronym ever) Conference and it was a doozy. The keynotes speakers were Jane Yolen and Tomie DePaola, both known mostly for their work in picture books, but Jane Yolen has a few novels&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/?p=44\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A success story<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[57,54,55,37,56],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-disney-channel","tag-lemonade-mouth","tag-mark-peter-hughes","tag-ya","tag-young-adult-literature","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}