Pants on Fire Press have contacted me to tell me they are currently accepting unsolicited manuscripts for picture, middle grade (equivalent to the 8-12 age readership in the UK) and young adult books. Based in the US, they are a small independent publisher keen to expand and explore new areas of technology as well as… [Read more…]
May 14, 2012
I am really pleased to come across yet another market for short stories for children. This one is called Cast of Wonders and it takes the form of a weekly podcast of science fiction and fantasy short stories for young adults aged 12 to 17, read expertly by Graeme Dunlop. They pay £5 per story… [Read more…]
April 12, 2012
Story Station is a part of viatouch.com which is a website of resources for teachers and parents. An American market, they pay 1c per world for short stories for children and young adults of between 1,500 to 3,000 words. Full submission guidelines can be found here, but basically they are looking for quality short stories… [Read more…]
March 29, 2012
Thanks to reader Kaytie for spotting another children’s publisher to add to our list! Maverick publish a range of lively and colourful picture books. They are looking for quirky, interesting reads with strong storylines. As a guide, their books are usually 32 pages long and no longer than 1,200 words and they prefer text only,… [Read more…]
March 24, 2012
New e-publishers Alfie Dog Limited are looking for short stories to make available for download on their website, www.alfiedog.com. Submissions details are at http://alfiedog.com/submissions/ and http://alfiedog.com/submissions/submission-process/. Authors will receive just under half of the download fee, so for a 39p short story the author will receive 16p per download. The publisher is aiming at an… [Read more…]
February 28, 2012
If you like writing short stories for children you’ll know they are hard to place, so I was chuffed to see in this month’s Writers’ News that the online magazine Knowonder! publishes a new story every day and is open to submissions. Knowonder is dedicated to promoting reading and communication involving parents and children together.… [Read more…]
February 21, 2012
Good news for authors of young adult fantasy and sci-fi. Exciting new imprint Strange Chemistry (offspring of the adult sci-fi publisher Angry Robots) are opening their doors to unsolicited manuscripts between 16 and 30 April 2012. This is a great opportunity to submit directly to a serious and ambitious publisher. Take a very careful look at… [Read more…]
February 10, 2012
I spotted in this month’s Writers’ News (published with Writing Magazine, March 2012) that the children’s publisher Tamarind are looking for submissions directly from writers. Tamarind are part of Random House and their ethos is to redress the imbalance in children’s publishing in terms of ethnicity. The main characters of their books are black, Asian… [Read more…]
January 30, 2012
Following on from my list of children’s publishers who accept unsolicited manuscripts, I thought I’d post a list for people who are submitting children’s books to agents, as I’m considering that route for one of my novels and I thought others might find it helpful. Publisher or agent? There are mixed opinions about which to… [Read more…]
October 6, 2010
Following on from my blog post on which publishers are accepting unsolicited manuscripts for children, I thought I’d put together something else I had difficulty finding on the web – a guide to word counts. The reason there isn’t a definitive list is that publishers vary considerably in their requirements and so you will see… [Read more…]
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