Piecemeal Publishing is calling for poetry submissions from authors, published and unpublished! If you would like to contribute to Piecemeal Publishing’s anthology of poetry, please submit two children’s poems suitable for ages 5 – 11 yrs. Deadline is February 20, 2012. Send all submissions and questions to piecemeal-submissions@hotmail.com. Please include your submission in the body... Continue Reading →
Call for Submissions
TU BOOKS, an imprint of LEE & LOW BOOKS, publishes speculative fiction for children and young adults featuring diverse characters and settings. Our focus is on well-told, exciting, adventurous fantasy, science fiction, and mystery novels featuring people of color set in worlds inspired by non-Western folklore or culture. We welcome Western settings if the main... Continue Reading →
CBAY Books is Taking Submissions
CBAY (Children's Brains Are Yummy) is currently taking book submissions. January 15-31 they will be accepting unsolicited manuscript submissions for only fantasy and science fiction picture books. These will be for traditional 32-page picture books for ages 2-5. This submission round is for electronic submissions only. Please see their link for guidelines, and make sure... Continue Reading →
Tu Books (Lee & Low) seeking submissions!
This just in from Stacy Whitman, editorial director at Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books: Hi all, We've just gone live with our illustrator guidelines and wanted to share them with you: http://www.leeandlow.com/p/tu_art.mhtml. We're mostly looking for cover artists and the occasional line art for middle grade novel interiors--NO picture books, sorry--and... Continue Reading →
Should You Copyright Your Submissions?
Great post to check out on KidLit.com about copywriting submissions and agent plagiarism.I found this through Twitter, where you can find many of our local authors, SCBWI fellow members, and several speakers from our April conference. You can find the SCBWI Western Washington here: http://twitter.com/scbwiwwa.
Editor/Agent submission peeves #scbwiwwa
Word to the wise: threatening query letters on legal letterhead don't work. (Are you shocked? Didn't think so.)Elizabeth Law got sued once by a writer who'd sent in an original illustrated dummy. She wrote a letter and sent it back that day and it returned home damaged. The author took her to small claims court.Now... Continue Reading →
What’s it like to have a novel on submission?
Most of us dream of the day we get an agent, thinking that will make it all better.Kiersten White, whose PARANORMALCY will come from HarperTeen in September, tells it like it is:I'm going to let you in on a secret, one that agented writers can't admit publicly for fear of shooting themselves in the foot,... Continue Reading →
8 tips for dealing with rejection
As we enter the post-holiday submission season, Kathy Temean has some timely advice on her blog:Use the Susan O’Keeffe method. In case you don’t know Susan, she is a very successful author. One day she shared what she tells herself. “I may not be the best writer in the world, but I know I am... Continue Reading →
COLUMBIAKids: call for submissions and book titles
If you want to write an article or a story, or if you have a new book set locally to promote, check out these opportunities from COLUMBIAKids magazine.Call for Submissions: COLUMBIAKids’ “Icons of Washington” IssueWhat's your favorite icon of Washington? Is it a person, place, or really cool thing? COLUMBIAKids is looking for great stories... Continue Reading →
What Elana Roth wants
In lieu of anything profound, I'm just going to put the call out today for a list of things I would like. A wish list, shall we say? Here goes.1.Middle-grade novels. I have been reading a ton of awesome MG novels lately. When You Reach Me is perfect. I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil... Continue Reading →