2011 Conference Photos
 

One hundred and seventy people attended the 42nd annual One-on-One Plus conference, newly located at Rutgers' bucolic Cook Campus Center. Editors, agents, art directors, published authors, and illustrators volunteered their time to work one-on-one with a select group of aspiring authors and illustrators from all over the country.

(photos by Tina Wexler and Brian Schatell, except where noted)
 
Editor and RUCCL council member Caroline Abbey
and author/illustrator and conference co-chair
Deborah Kogan Ray at the registration table.
(photo by Dianne Ochiltree)
 RUCCL council members: author/illustrator Peter Catalanotto,
author David Lubar, and author Paul Acampora.
At the mentor breakfast: Beth Miller, Literary Agent Assistant, Writers House; Bethany Strout, Editorial Assistant, Little Brown; Emellia Zamani, Assistant Editor, Michael di Capua Books/Scholastic Press.   Stacey Barney, Editor, Putnam Books for Young Readers, and
Debbie Guy, Senior Designer, Grosset & Dunlap, at the mentor breakfast. Mentors use this time to review their mentees' manuscripts and prepare for their one-on-one sessions.
 
Agent Barry Goldblatt studies a manuscript
in preparation for his one-on-one session. 		  Attendees at the mentee breakfast look over mentor biographies
and prepare for the day ahead.
Success Story Speaker Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
delivered an inspirational speech during the mentee breakfast about her journey from former One-on-One mentee to published author. (photo by Betsy Devany)		 Author Vivian Grey, RUCCL founder and chair, delivers opening remarks to the jointly assembled mentees and mentors.