2008 Children's Markets Review
The Updated Writer and Illustrator Market Book
Finding places to publish children's books, stories and articles is made much easier with the 2008 Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market.
The 2008 Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market isn’t as big as the better-known Writer’s Market, and it doesn’t have as many market listings. But, it does cover it’s smaller, niche market as thoroughly as its larger counterpart. The Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market contains more than 750 market listings that buy work catering to children.
Children’s Writer Agents
In addition to the children’s market listings, there is also an extensive listing of agents that represent children’s writers. Most of the agents accept other types of work besides children’s books, but all accept children’s or young adult material for representation.
Industry Experts
Part of the appeal of the 2008 Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market is the many essays written by experts in the publishing industry. There are first-person accounts of successful marketing methods for children's books, having a website for marketing a book, first-time book authors who impart advice and some of the lesser known subjects that can become material for non-fiction children's books.
Other Writing Resources
Markets and agents are important to becoming published, but there are other helpful resources as well. Many writers find their agents or publishers while attending writers’ conferences. The Conferences and Workshops section helps writers to find the conferences that can get them connected.
The information includes the price to attend the conferences and what topics will be covered in each. Generally the specific information about notable attendees is from a past year and contact information is given to find out this year's notables. The writing workshop listings give similar information about various workshops across the Unites States and Canada.
Writing contests, grants and awards have their own section. The chapter is a valuable resource for writers who want to pit their work against others. There are almost 20 pages of listings in this section, spanning every type of children's writing. An interview with a writer who got her first novel published with the help of a grant and an award makes the section stand out to writers who might not have taken it seriously otherwise.
Market Organization
There is an index in the back that organizes all of the children's markets into age levels. Each age level is represented, and all publishers who publish for that age group are listed under that group. Another index lists subjects and the publishers who cater to those subjects. The last index is an alphabetical listing of all the publishers listed in the Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market. The indexes make the book easier to navigate the many publishers that make the book such a priceless resource for children's writers.
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