PALing Around

So, say you are a Southern Breeze member who happens to have a book/magazine article/illustration published. So what? Congratulations is what! And I hope you are PALing around with the Southern Breeze PALs.

The PAL membership category within SCBWI stands for Published and Listed. To learn more, visit https://www.scbwi.org/membership-categories-new/ As the PAL Coordinator for Southern Breeze, I help PALs get what they need from the organization. If you are pre-published, don’t worry, you aren’t being left out – the PAL activities are specific to their needs (you probably don’t want to sit through a long discussion on how to manage an option clause for a 5^th book).

Some current SB PAL activities:

·         Facebook Southern Breeze PALs: A great place to ask questions. And learn about resources like the YALSA List of YA Authors by State.

·         KidLit Connects: Periodic online chats with librarians on topics of interest to people deeply involved with kidlit. Recent topics: censorship, presenting to librarians, story time at the library. Have a topic you’d like to discuss? Contact Heather.

·         AJC Decatur Book Festival: Southern Breeze is working on hosting a booth at this fabulous book festival. A great option for PALs to sell books and pre-published folks to learn more about book selling.

If you have questions about any of this, if you are a PAL and not receiving periodic emails from me, or if you have ideas about how we can better serve PAL members, please contact me, Heather L. Montgomery, sipsey21 (at) Hotmail (dot) com.