{"id":736,"date":"2010-09-06T21:08:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T21:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angiesmibert.com\/blog\/?p=736"},"modified":"2010-09-06T21:08:07","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T21:08:07","slug":"elevensies-in-cwim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angiesmibert.com\/blog\/?p=736","title":{"rendered":"Elevensies in CWIM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.angiesmibert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/cwim.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-737\" title=\"cwim 2011\" src=\"https:\/\/www.angiesmibert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/cwim.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.angiesmibert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/cwim.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.angiesmibert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/cwim-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I bought the 2011 Children\u2019s Writer\u2019s &amp; Illustrator\u2019s Market a few weeks ago. \u00a0The yearly CWIM lists book and short story markets, agents, conferences, and markets. And the first hundred pages or so are devoted to articles about writing tips, trends, and new authors.\u00a0 \u00a0If you turn to page 75, you\u2019ll find a great article by our own Sara Bennett Wealer about the<a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/2011debuts\" target=\"_blank\"> Elevensies:<\/a> \u201cAuthors Unite Online: Support, Sharing &amp; Celebration During the Debut Year.\u201d Nice!<\/p>\n<p>In the 2007 (or 2008) CWIM, I first read about another debut group, the Class of2K7.\u00a0 I remember thinking what a brilliant idea it was for several debut authors to band together to market their books. And I told myself when I sold my first book, I\u2019d join something like that.<\/p>\n<p>I did. Actually I joined two debut groups (plus the group blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/leaguewriters.blogspot.com\">League of Extraordinary Writers<\/a>).\u00a0 While searching for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classof2k11.com\" target=\"_blank\">the Class of 2K11,<\/a> I found the Elevensies. (I also found the Class of 2K11 because most of us are also Elevensies.)\u00a0 The two groups serve different purposes, but both are invaluable for debut young adult and middle grade authors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought the 2011 Children\u2019s Writer\u2019s &amp; Illustrator\u2019s Market a few weeks ago. \u00a0The yearly CWIM lists book and short story markets, agents, conferences, and markets. And the first hundred &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.angiesmibert.com\/blog\/?p=736\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Elevensies in CWIM&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angiesmibert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angiesmibert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angiesmibert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angiesmibert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angiesmibert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.angiesmibert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"https:\/\/www.angiesmibert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angiesmibert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angiesmibert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angiesmibert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}