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Wednesday, March 29, 2017
3 Questions Following Up Giving Up and Saddling Up
3 Questions Following Up Giving Up and Saddling Up
I am in the process of submitting my manuscript for my second childrens picture book to agents. I got a solid referral to a high-profile agent. The referral came from one of the agents award-winning illustrators. I sent my letter and submission but havent heard anything back after about two weeks. Should I follow-up? If so, should I follow-up with e-mail, or snail mail?A couple weeks is a very short time for most agents, so it would be nice if youd give him a little more time before emailing to follow up.
I would like to resume submitting my ms to other agents if hes not interested, and one agent had suggested revisions, so I dont want to keep her waiting.
What should I do?
Unless you told him that it was an exclusive submission, though, I would not wait to continue submitting elsewhere.
I have written what I think to be the cutest little childrens picture book on boogers. However I keep getting rejected. With books like Captain Underpants, I thought my rhyming book would be at least acceptable material for a picture book, kids love things funny and gross. One potential agent even said it was "cute". Should I scrap the project all together?Wow, an agent said it was cute?
Im sorry, sometimes the sarcasm just comes out before I can stop it. When youve gotten a few more rejections, youll start realizing that a lot of the soft words agents and editors use to cushion the blow are about as meaningful as feathers. The flip side of this is that a lot of the hard words that deliver the blow are meaningless, too. A rejection, whatever the words used, means nothing more than "no".
I cant tell you why your particular manuscript is getting rejected. Possibly agents are worried that since picture books are bought far more often by parents than are chapter books (Captain Underpants rose to popularity on the spending habits of children), the topic is too likely to foster bad behavior and conversation no one wants at the dinner table. Still, there are examples-- David Greenbergs Slugs-- of picture books that manage to be popular and disgusting. So perhaps your rhyme is not as solid as it needs to be?
Yes, after a certain number of rejections, its probably time to put that manuscript in a drawer somewhere... but its a pretty big number. Good luck with it.
I have a question that Im thinking you could answer. I have a cowboy poem that is Christmas oriented. I envision it in a childrens book format, although the poem itself is equally appealing to adults. So, what Im thinking is a few lines of the poem on a page along with an illustration. My question I guess is will this work, and if so, how do I go about submitting something like that and to whom?I cannot tell from this whether it will work. Youll need to read a bunch of picture books, and read about picture book page counts to be sure you have enough action to carry the poem through a standard picture book length.
As for who you should submit to and how, this is research you need to do. Im sure there are authors in my readership who have some ideas-- and authors (and agents) generally know more about publisher submission guidelines and various publisher tastes than editors do. But market research is an important learning process for new authors, so you need to do this work. Good luck, partner.
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Saturday, January 28, 2017
1 The following do it yourself adapted to the circumstances in Haiti from a blog written by Marian
1 The following do it yourself adapted to the circumstances in Haiti from a blog written by Marian
1 The following do it yourself adapted to the circumstances in Haiti from a blog written by Marian Wright Edelman of the Huffington Post (October do it yourself 23, 2012) The Haitian citizen of the country being created that this strength - just a country, a country of compassion, a country forgiving, multi-religious do it yourself country, a happy land What we lack experience on Children and those elders here, is missing on himself and on the world, is definitely what on Earth as Hora laboratory and as Neath Neath what individuals. Haiti badly Neath to create itself. You will not give you that PLEDGE Deep in this screwed up the creation of a new exterior offer yourself totally in Haiti - Haiti do not yet lives. Drawing a comparison words of African-American poet Langston Hughes do it yourself Brilliant in the "Let America be America again," to create a new Haiti, do it yourself "We celebrate poor, working class, and Alaska Haitian who was still farmers , factory workers, their work, on whose back was built behind Haiti sit generation after generation, do it yourself were tangled in endless chain of Ancient produce power, Gaines, of grab the land! grab Gold! in grab the ways of satisfying Neath! work guys! taking straw! owning everything for one's own Greeks! "Haitian can say in their hearts Haiti, or made me in Haiti. House 1 swear this oath - you will! For those who are not afraid to swear, to swear the Oath Oath for yourself, for your children do it yourself that you'll Haiti. do it yourself You will rise to. You will rise you should, and 1: I'll Give aiming my working for this. We must bear responsibility. We can not just be people complaining again. We must now say Haiti What we believe should be on, and then ,, but it goes in the building. As Citizen Haiti that the force will come to be, it is up to us to do it and ultimately create a narrow country do it yourself and hope for all children in Haiti. Thank you Marian Wright Edelman and Langston Hughes.
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