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Please join us in welcoming Wendy Rudge to the #CYASuccess family!
"The CYA Conference has been one of the most transformative parts of my writing journey. I have been attending for six years now, and from the very beginning, it gave me something that is hard to find elsewhere - a genuine community of like-minded creatives, incredible professional development, and real opportunities to put my work in front of Australian publishers."
Ruby’s Perfect Fire Safety Plan is her debut picture book and is published by Wild Dog Books.
https://www.cyaconference.com/cyasuccess/wendy-rudgwww.cyaconference.com/cyasuccess/wendy-rudgee
#CYAConference #success #writerscommunity #CYASuccess
This year, Karen Tayleur from Wild Dog will be doing online assessments on July 4. https://is.gd/G8hmyg
Have you secured an agent, signed a publishing contract, or been published following your involvement with the CYA Conference?
If you have, we'd love to know about it so we can add you to the success page.
Submit your details here: www.cyaconference.com/account/si
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Please join us in welcoming Wendy Rudge to the #CYASuccess family!
"The CYA Conference has been one of the most transformative parts of my writing journey. I have been attending for six years now, and from the very beginning, it gave me something that is hard to find elsewhere - a genuine community of like-minded creatives, incredible professional development, and real opportunities to put my work in front of Australian publishers."
Ruby’s Perfect Fire Safety Plan is her debut picture book and is published by Wild Dog Books.
https://www.cyaconference.com/cyasuccess/wendy-rudgwww.cyaconference.com/cyasuccess/wendy-rudgee
#CYAConference #success #writerscommunity #CYASuccess
This year, Karen Tayleur from Wild Dog will be doing online assessments on July 4. https://is.gd/G8hmyg
Have you secured an agent, signed a publishing contract, or been published following your involvement with the CYA Conference?
If you have, we'd love to know about it so we can add you to the success page.
Submit your details here: www.cyaconference.com/account/si
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Please join us in welcoming Reena Balding to the #CYASuccess family!
"After more than 10 years of writing for children, my first picture book is being released this month, and CYA played a crucial part. I started entering picture book manuscript into the CYA competition each year, tracking how my manuscripts fared, seeing my results improve. My best result in the competition was about fifth one year but by far the best result overall was getting a publishing offer!
I quickly learned how fortunate I was that my assessment had been with Maryann from Wild Dog Books– she was already interested in kelp and could see the potential in a picture book about it. "
https://www.cyaconference.com/cyasuccess/reena-balding
#CYAConference #success #writerscommunity #CYASuccess
This year, Karen Tayleur from Wild Dog will be doing online assessments on July 4. https://is.gd/G8hmyg
Have you secured an agent, signed a publishing contract, or been published following your involvement with the CYA Conference?
If you have, we'd love to know about it so we can add you to the success page.
Submit your details here: www.cyaconference.com/account/si
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Please join us in welcoming Reena Balding to the #CYASuccess family!
"After more than 10 years of writing for children, my first picture book is being released this month, and CYA played a crucial part. I started entering picture book manuscript into the CYA competition each year, tracking how my manuscripts fared, seeing my results improve. My best result in the competition was about fifth one year but by far the best result overall was getting a publishing offer!
I quickly learned how fortunate I was that my assessment had been with Maryann from Wild Dog Books– she was already interested in kelp and could see the potential in a picture book about it. "
https://www.cyaconference.com/cyasuccess/reena-balding
#CYAConference #success #writerscommunity #CYASuccess
This year, Karen Tayleur from Wild Dog will be doing online assessments on July 4. https://is.gd/G8hmyg
Have you secured an agent, signed a publishing contract, or been published following your involvement with the CYA Conference?
If you have, we'd love to know about it so we can add you to the success page.
Submit your details here: www.cyaconference.com/account/si
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Such exciting news today… 4 book babies for the CYA Conference… 2 from previous competition winners and 2 from the March bootcamps contracted… and we heard about them all on the same day… It’s days like this that make us smile so hard our cheeks hurt!!!!!
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Such exciting news today… 4 book babies for the CYA Conference… 2 from previous competition winners and 2 from the March bootcamps contracted… and we heard about them all on the same day… It’s days like this that make us smile so hard our cheeks hurt!!!!!
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Please join us in welcoming @kai_ash to the #CYASuccess family!
"My assessor had one main comment: 'This is not a picture book,' she said, which was rather confronting to hear at the time! Though, with the benefit of hindsight, I can see how right she was."
Read Kai's story at www.cyaconference.com/cyasuccess/kai-ash
The Boy Maeve, due for release on 26 May 2026 by Hardie Grant Children's Publishing.
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Please join us in welcoming @kai_ash to the #CYASuccess family!
"My assessor had one main comment: 'This is not a picture book,' she said, which was rather confronting to hear at the time! Though, with the benefit of hindsight, I can see how right she was."
Read Kai's story at www.cyaconference.com/cyasuccess/kai-ash
The Boy Maeve, due for release on 26 May 2026 by Hardie Grant Children's Publishing.
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Please join us in welcoming @kai_ash to the #CYASuccess family!
"My assessor had one main comment: 'This is not a picture book,' she said, which was rather confronting to hear at the time! Though, with the benefit of hindsight, I can see how right she was."
Read Kai's story at www.cyaconference.com/cyasuccess/kai-ash
The Boy Maeve, due for release on 26 May 2026 by Hardie Grant Children's Publishing.
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Please join us in welcoming @kai_ash to the #CYASuccess family!
"My assessor had one main comment: 'This is not a picture book,' she said, which was rather confronting to hear at the time! Though, with the benefit of hindsight, I can see how right she was."
Read Kai's story at www.cyaconference.com/cyasuccess/kai-ash
The Boy Maeve, due for release on 26 May 2026 by Hardie Grant Children's Publishing.
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Please join us in welcoming Sharon Dalgleish to the #CYASuccess family!
"An assessing publisher asked me to email them the revised manuscript ... and a week later I was offered a contract. Thank you Tina and CYA! Without you it would not have happened."
Read her story at https://www.cyaconference.com/cyasuccess/sharon-dalgleish
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Please join us in welcoming Sharon Dalgleish to the #CYASuccess family!
"An assessing publisher asked me to email them the revised manuscript ... and a week later I was offered a contract. Thank you Tina and CYA! Without you it would not have happened."
Read her story at https://www.cyaconference.com/cyasuccess/sharon-dalgleish
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Please welcome Rosi Ngwenya to the CYA Success family.
“I went into that session nervous and never expecting more than feedback.
So imagine when I saw Rowena's big smile, felt her excited energy, and then heard her when she introduced me to her assistant as the “Author” of BrilliANT. I remember it was the first time anyone had called me that…”Read Rosi’s full story at www.cyaconference.com/cyasuccess/rosi-ngwenya
#CYASuccess
#CreativeJourney
#ConferenceSuccess
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#AuthorJourney
#BookRelease
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Please welcome Danielle Camer to the CYA Success family.
“In 2021, I had my manuscript assessed by Brenda Gurr from Red Paper Kite Publishing. I really valued her constructive feedback and clicked with her on a professional level too. I continued a working relationship with Brenda by enlisting her as the editor of my debut picture book, “Sophie Won’t Sleep”. In the same year, I attended a session on self-publishing at the CYA conference and made the decision that this would be the year I take the plunge and self-publish “Sophie Won’t Sleep”.”
Read Danielle’s full story at www.cyaconference.com/cyasuccess/dr-danielle-camer
#CYASuccess
#CreativeJourney
#ConferenceSuccess
#SuccessStory
#DebutAuthor
#PictureBook
#SelfPublishing
#AuthorJourney
#BookRelease
#WritingCommunity
#ChildrensBooks
#SophieWontSleep
#CreativeJourney
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Please welcome Lellie Lopter to the #CYASuccess family.
“From the date of my assessment to the date of publication it took just 72 days. During this time, I had undergone major surgery and was confined to bed for 8 weeks. From my bed I recruited illustrators from all over the world, connected with Red Nose Australia to set up the ongoing charitable donations of 100% of the profits, completed the layout and design of the book, set it up for international sales and created an accompanying video that is available immediately and for free whenever a family needs it. The book and video of ‘My Brother Born Sleeping’ has now helped over 500 families tackle the difficult conversation of pregnancy and infant loss with siblings. Without the connections I made from the Kid Lit community at the CYA conference, and without the kindness of the assessors who rejected my manuscript, I would never have had the confidence to undertake this project and this book wouldn’t exist.”
Read Lellie’s full story at https://www.cyaconference.com/cyasuccess/lellie-lopter
#AuthorJourney #PublishedAuthor #IllustratorLife #PictureBook #WritingCommunity #AuthorIllustrator #SuccessStory #CreativeJourney #ConferenceSuccess
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Please welcome Matt Samuel to the #CYASuccess family.
“When I signed up for the 2021 CYA conference, I was very excited about the opportunity to get some direct feedback, with their Editor Assessment sessions. I had never done any pitches or face to face with editors or publishers before, so I was more than a bit nervous.
I received some great feedback from a couple of editors. And one of these editors was Rowena Beresford of Yellow Brick Books (now Riveted Press). Rowena and I only had 15 minutes to discuss 2 manuscripts. But in that time, she suggested a few things to help improve one story and she invited me to submit that story to her once I had made the changes. I took her feedback on board and submitted within the week. Then a few weeks later I was offered a contract.
Without CYA, I would never have had the chance to meet Rowena. Which means without CYA, I wouldn’t have a book being published!”Read Matt's full story at www.cyaconference.com/cyasuccess/matt-samuel
We're thrilled to have Rowena back with us at #CYA2024.
#CYA2024 #CYAConference #WritersCommunity #author #illustrator #writing #YALit #FictionWriters #NonFiction #Literary #Fiction #RomanceWriters #ThrillerWriters #CrimeWriters #WritingTips #PictureBooks #ChildrensBooks #illustrations #IllustrationArtists #ChildrenIllustrator #JuniorFiction #EarlyReaders #ChapterBooks
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Please welcome Matt Samuel to the #CYASuccess family.
“When I signed up for the 2021 CYA conference, I was very excited about the opportunity to get some direct feedback, with their Editor Assessment sessions. I had never done any pitches or face to face with editors or publishers before, so I was more than a bit nervous.
I received some great feedback from a couple of editors. And one of these editors was Rowena Beresford of Yellow Brick Books (now Riveted Press). Rowena and I only had 15 minutes to discuss 2 manuscripts. But in that time, she suggested a few things to help improve one story and she invited me to submit that story to her once I had made the changes. I took her feedback on board and submitted within the week. Then a few weeks later I was offered a contract.
Without CYA, I would never have had the chance to meet Rowena. Which means without CYA, I wouldn’t have a book being published!”Read Matt's full story at www.cyaconference.com/cyasuccess/matt-samuel
We're thrilled to have Rowena back with us at #CYA2024.
#CYA2024 #CYAConference #WritersCommunity #author #illustrator #writing #YALit #FictionWriters #NonFiction #Literary #Fiction #RomanceWriters #ThrillerWriters #CrimeWriters #WritingTips #PictureBooks #ChildrensBooks #illustrations #IllustrationArtists #ChildrenIllustrator #JuniorFiction #EarlyReaders #ChapterBooks