I’ve recently made two submissions directly to publishers that I feel really good about. You know how it goes; you’ve read loads of their publications, you feel like your manuscripts fit perfectly, you can imagine your books on the shelves etc. Then you remember the reality: that publishers receive an insane amount of submissions, they […]
Unicorns – they’ve been everywhere for what feels like forever. But has the trend passed? My instincts say yes and no. Any look around a shop will tell you that unicorns are still very much on trend. But of course, any book being written now would only potentially be released in maybe a couple of […]
Today is the final day for submissions to Scholastic’s illustrated books ‘open season’. Open season is an exciting opportunity for un-agented picture book writers and illustrators to submit their work directly to a large publisher. Most publishers are usually closed to unsolicited submissions and acquire new publications via literary agents. I’ve really loved the openness […]
