The Weekly 411 (5/28/17)
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May 28, 2017, vol. 21
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KIDLIT NEWS
New agent alert: Holly Root & Taylor Taggerty at Root Literary looking for YA, MG, and adult
Writer's Digest recently named Kidlit411 among the 101 Best Websites for Writers, for the third year in a row. Thank you all for helping make Kidlit411 the place to go for kid lit resources!
AUTHOR SPOTLIGHTWriter's Digest recently named Kidlit411 among the 101 Best Websites for Writers, for the third year in a row. Thank you all for helping make Kidlit411 the place to go for kid lit resources!
This week we feature picture book author-illustrator Corinna Luyken. Her debut book, THE BOOK OF MISTAKES (Dial Books) just came out. Don't forget to enter to win a copy!
Are You Ignoring Your Best Idea?
A Hot Steaming Sack of Business Advice for Writers
- What: Enter to win a spot in an anthology for new writers & illustrators sent to agents, novels for children age 5 to YA (no picture books)
- Who: non-agented SCBWI members living in EU countries
- Prize: inclusion in an anthology sent to UK editors & agents and some US editors & agents
How to Evaluate a Publisher for Your Book
Switching from Querying Agents to Querying Publishers
Giuseppe Castellano: All The Wonders (podcast, Penguin Art Director answers questions)
Sept. 22-24 Pacific Coast Children's Writers Novel Workshop & Retreat Pacific Coast Children's Writers Workshop (15th annual): Receive 1-2 critiques on your partial or full MG or YA novel by editor Stacey Barney (G.P. Putnam's) and/or agent Brianne Johnson (Writers House) and savvy teen readers. Craft-intensive; intimate. (Coastal Santa Cruz, CA) (Scholarships available for teen writers)
Switching from Querying Agents to Querying Publishers
Giuseppe Castellano: All The Wonders (podcast, Penguin Art Director answers questions)
Thanks, Elaine and Sylvia...I love receiving this and getting to see what is going on in KidLitLand. And I can't wait to read the articles included this month.
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