Posted by Finally, it’s time to talk about publishing! It’s a lot of work putting together a manuscript or a dummy or a portfolio. Once it’s been critiqued and ready to submit, what next?
Consider if you want to go traditional (submitting your an agent or editor) or self-publishing or are you submitting somewhere else like a mentorship or contest?
KidLit Resources for Submissions
🔰 KidLit411 Submissions: Agents & Editors: resource collection for submissions, free.
🔰 Manuscript Wish List: Agent wishlists across genres, includes lots of resources, free.
🔰 Publishers Weekly: weekly magazine about the publishing industry, cuts across genres, usually a subscription, but currently free during the pandemic.
🔰 QueryTracker: Helps you find agents, free & paid options.
🔰Sub It Club: support group for authors/illustrators, includes resources for querying.
⏯ Videos about Dealing with Rejection
🔰iWriterly: Rejection Letters
🔰 Book Doctors: Pitch MistakesBookends Literary: Interpreting Rejection
🔰 Tips for Avoiding Rejection (Children’s Book Insiders)
Creating stories takes time. From being unpublished to agented to published can take years. Publishing picture books takes years, too. (At least 1-2 years between an acquired manuscript to illustrations to a book release. In the meanwhile focus on your craft. Keep working. Remember your WHY (passion, love of words, to tell the stories only you can). It’s a journey, take it one day at a time.
A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.
Richard Bach