Keynote: Mike Curato
Mike Curato is a lovely brilliant duckling who SCBWI is lucky to claim as a success story. I have good news and bad news and good news for you about his keynote. Good news: Mike's keynote was AMAZING. Deep and lovely ideas and fantastic imagery. It was funny and heartbreaking and thoughtful and silly. Bad news: There's no good way to blog a summary of that and retain an iota of his special genius delivery. But Good News II, I bet he will do this talk again, so if you weren't here to hear it, make every effort to see him at any other conference, okay? You're in for a planet-sized treat. Mike sets up each of his published books as an 'assignment' with 'steps' you should follow to do as he's done. Assignment One: Fulfill your lifelong dream of creating a picture book that captures the essence of everything you love about reading a picture book. Step 1: YOU MUST EAT CAKE TO WRITE OR ILLUSTRATE A BOOK (nice shout out to my favorite cupcake shop Cupcake R...