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…]
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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