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A new season - the 4th! - of OPEN UP  has started.
OPEN UP - The BCBF Skill Box is the digital environment where professions, skills and cultures come together to create unique opportunities for exchange - and especially - growth.

Sign up to be part of our OPEN UP programme that’s already on-going and get a front row seat for the great events organized by BCBF and BBPlus

Don't miss the 5th Virtual Illustrators Wall!. Then there are the BBPlus Training Courses focusing on the publishing industry’s specialist professions and how they are evolving: Writing & Self-Publishing @BBPLUS2024; Call Your Agent: How to Become a Successful Literary Agent; and How to sell Rights and Understand Licensing in Children’s Books and many more new titles to come.

 

 

 

 
SPECIAL PROJECTS

Virtual Illustrators Wall - Call for entry

The Illustrators Wall is among the best-loved places at Bologna Children’s Book Fair. One of the first things you come across on entering the trade show, this impromptu array of posters, drawings, photographs, pictures, and contact details welcomes visitors each year.

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TRAINING COURSE

Self-Publishing: How to Succeed in Italy and Abroad 2024

The self-publishing arena is growing each year. Many aspiring authors choose this route to get their books to readers. It can, however, be bewildering as there are many platforms and organisations offering services. Getting started is the biggest challenge. This two-day event will guide you through the craft of writing on day one, and how to get your book published, navigating the self-publishing journey, on day two. The afternoons comprise various workshops to enable you to choose your own topics, these are delivered by some of the main self-publishing platforms.

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Call your Agent: How to Become a Successful Literary Agent

Literary agents represent writers, assisting them in obtaining publishing contracts, and negotiating the best terms. They focus on the business side often, but also offer their authors creative guidance too. In the book world it is not always clear how to get started in this world. This unique event will guide you through explanations of how agents and scouts work; how to find authors; scouting, how publishing works and how to do the best for your authors. If you are thinking of becoming an agent, or in your first year or two, this will be a half-day well spent. 

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TRAINING COURSE

How to Sell Rights and Understand Licensing in Children’s Books

This event delivers a thorough explanation of copyright, the cornerstone of all rights, and the essential steps of rights selling, an essential base for anyone starting off, or considering, a career in rights, or those in their first year or two, and wish to consolidate their knowledge. It’s also very good training for those in contracts or related areas, or self-published children’s authors. It is delivered by children’s rights experts with proven experience across many territories and markets.

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