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Category Archives: Getting Published
How I Do Publisher Research and Submit My Children’s Book Manuscripts: Part 6: Submit!
Previous entries in the series: Part 1: Overview Part 2: My Tools Part 3: Publishers Database Part 4: Describe My Manuscript Part 5: Make My Marketing List Part 6: Submit! I have always loved logic puzzles. You know, the kind … Continue reading
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How I Do Publisher Research and Submit My Children’s Book Manuscripts: Part 5: Make a Marketing List
Previous entries in the series: Part 1: Overview Part 2: My Tools Part 3: Publishers Database Part 4: Describe My Manuscript Part 5: Make My Marketing List Before I start sending out a manuscript, I always make a list of … Continue reading
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How I Do Publisher Research and Submit My Children’s Book Manuscripts: Part 4: Identify and Describe My Manuscript
Previous entries in the series: Part 1: Overview Part 2: My Tools Part 3: Publishers Database This seems so basic, but it’s amazing how many writers I’ve met who are trying to sell a manuscript without a basic understanding of … Continue reading
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How I Do Publisher Research and Submit My Children’s Book Manuscripts: Part 3: My Publishers Database
Previous entries in the series: Part 1: Overview Part 2: My Tools Part 3:My Publishers Database I thought I’d go into a little more detail about the database I keep of editors and publishers. This is a crucial part of … Continue reading
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How I Do Publisher Research and Submit My Children’s Book Manuscripts: Part 2: Tools
Part 2: Tools I use several tools, some free and some pricey, to help me research markets and submit my manuscripts. In this post, I’m going to describe the tools and very briefly say what I use them for. Future … Continue reading
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How I Do Publisher Research and Submit My Children’s Book Manuscripts: Part 1: Overview
This topic is complex and a bit overwhelming, but I’m going to try to break down my overall process into steps (over several blog posts) and explain it. Who to send your work to and how to send it–those are … Continue reading
My One Question
When I left my literary agency in 2015, it was largely because no new sales were happening, and I couldn’t get regular updates on submissions. I knew that to improve things, I would have to submit like a beast (as … Continue reading
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The Quick Pitch: Describing Your Manuscript in Two Sentences
I’ve been asked to describe a manuscript in a “quick pitch.” This got me thinking of some notes I have used often. I first wrote these down after attending or reading (it was 2003, and I really don’t remember!) Verla … Continue reading
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Facing Tough Odds with Every Submission
As I write this, I am sitting in front of my neighborhood Barnes & Noble. I am getting ready to go inside and do some market research, because I have a set of very beginning reader manuscripts that I want … Continue reading
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Your Jacket Flap Author Bio
With each new book, I update my author bio for the book flap a little bit to connect with the book itself. To help readers see how I actually fit in with the topic or theme of the book. For … Continue reading
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