Last Saturday, the Wisconsin Chapter of the Society of Children's Writers
and Illustrators (SCBWI) held it's annual Spring Luncheon. The location
was the beautiful Oconomowoc Lake Club. The day was a pure spring day in
Wisconsin—beautiful blue sky, warm sun, daffodils in bloom, budding
trees, and weeping willow branches arching over the water.

And then the day got even better. The speaker was Molly O'Neill,
assistant editor at Katherine Tagen Books (HarperCollins). She talked
about what...