Laurie Halse Anderson Closing Keynote
Laurie Halse Anderson closes our conference by giving a shout out to her fellow introverts. Especially if this was your first conference, it's hard just to sign up, but you came here, and you aren't in your hotel room right now, so that's all a great job. She thanks Lin and Steve for all they do, for changing the face of the children's book industry around the world. Laurie asks us to take a moment to feel all the feels right now and in the next 24 hours take a chance to write or draw about this weekend so you can turn this into a touchstone moment you can take home with you. Because, Laurie says, we have to go home, back to reality now. In the space we're in right now we feel like we can do anything. The doubt and fear of our everyday life, of the current political situation, the fear of being found a fraud even if you are already published is what stops us from making the work we are so excited to make during weekends like these. Laurie's giving us three ways...