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 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…]
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…]
September 13, 2010
Writing the synopsis for your novel is a task generally loathed by writers, yet it is an essential part of selling your book. Why? And why do writers hate the process so much? Shouldn’t we enjoy having the chance to demonstrate how brilliant and exciting our plot is? What a synopsis is for A synopsis… [Read more…]
July 21, 2010
* UPDATED APRIL 2012* You can’t get published without an agent, and you can’t get an agent without being published – or so the adage goes. Thankfully, there are still a few children’s book publishers who are happy to wade through the ‘slush pile’, that teetering tower of manuscripts we imagine fill up a corner… [Read more…]
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