It’s been more than a week since my final seminar at the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Summer Spectacular. It was their first ever virtual conference. The pandemic has limited the opportunity to meet face-to-face and turned our lives into one teleconference after another. On the upside, the semi-annual conference, which would have taken place in Los Angeles with twelve hundred people in attendance, found nearly five thousand participants from all fifty states and forty-eight countries. Saving the cost of travel and lodging, as well as keeping the entrance fee to only one hundred dollars for members contributed to this phenomenon. It was only my second writer’s…