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What’s on My Writer’s To-Do List that Is NOT Writing
[Thought I’d share this from my morning pages today.] Whew. I am a little overwhelmed right now with promotion stuff and speaking stuff and marketing research for submissions. With three books coming out in the spring, I guess that’s to … Continue reading
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Tagged book marketing, conferences, Laura Purdie Salas, market research, ncte, promotion
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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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Tagged Laura Purdie Salas, market research, my submissions process, query letters, submitting
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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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Tagged Laura Purdie Salas, market research, my submissions process, submitting
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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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Tagged Laura Purdie Salas, market research, my submissions process, submitting
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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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Tagged Laura Purdie Salas, market research, my submissions process, submitting
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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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Tagged Laura Purdie Salas, market research, my submissions process, submitting
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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
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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Tagged beginning readers, Laura Purdie Salas, market research, submitting
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The Horn Book Guide Online and Why Writers Need It
I’ve mentioned the Horn Book Guide online version several times in the past couple of months in various Facebook Groups–it’s amazing! For me, it’s great for two things: 1) deepening my understanding of various aspects of writing craft and 2) … Continue reading
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