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Nosy Crow Announces Open Submission Window For Graphic Novels

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What we are looking for:

An exciting, commercial graphic novel for children between the ages of 5-12, in any fiction genre. The main characters can be humans, animals, fantasy creatures or a mixture – the possibilities are endless!

If you are new to children’s publishing, standard target age ranges are 5-7, 7-9 and 9-12. We recommend you look at already published fiction books and graphic novels in the market to get an idea of what is out there.

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Nosy Crow In Open Call For Submissions From Writers and Writer-Illustrators Of Colour

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Nosy Crow want to increase the diversity of their list.

 If you’re a writer or writer-illustrator of colour, they want your picture book stories!

Please send no more than three picture book texts to submissions2021@nosycrow.com, along with a synopsis of each story and a short biography in the body of the email. The window for submissions is for a limited time only, from the 21st January 2021 to the 18thFebruary 2021. 

It’s completely free to submit. Submissions must be in the English language and unpublished anywhere in the world. Writers and writer-illustrators must be aged 18 or older.

Picture book texts should be no more than 1,000 words each and submitted as aMicrosoft Word document (or similar document that can be opened in Microsoft Word) or Adobe PDF document. They should be sent as an email attachment (no paper submissions).

If you are a writer-illustrator, texts can be accompanied by your artwork. PDFs should be no more than 5MB in total. If you’re a writer-illustrator, please also include a link to your website and/or social media.

More details here:
https://nosycrow.com/blog/an-open-call-for-submissions-from-writers-and-writer-illustrators-of-colour/

BookTrust Accepting Submissions For Blue Peter Book Awards 2017

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The 2017 Awards will celebrate children’s books published in the last year in two categories: Best Story and Best Book with Facts.

There will be three shortlisted books for each award chosen by our panel of judges and announced on Blue Peter in December 2016.

The two winning books, voted for by approximately 200 children from 10 schools across the UK, will be announced on the Blue Peter programme, with the winning authors and illustrators appearing on the live show on World Book Day on 2 March 2017.

  • Publishers are invited to enter up to three eligible fiction titles for the Best Story award per bona fide imprint, and three eligible non-fiction titles for the Best Book with Facts award per bona fide imprint.
  • Books must be first published in the UK between 1 November 2015 and 31 October 2016.
  • Authors and illustrators must either be British nationals or residents at the time of entering.

For full details of eligibility and how to enter, please see the attached Terms and Conditions and then complete an Entry Form.

The deadline for submissions is 5pm 29 July 2016

via Blue Peter Book Awards 2017 | Book Trust.

Top 5 Dos & Don’ts when it comes to getting your children’s book published

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Jenny Glencross, Orion Commissioning Editor

Rebecca Davies (@TheStoryMonster) asks Jenny Glencross, Commissioning Editor for Orion Children’s Books and their YA imprint, Indigo, for her top five dos and don’ts when it comes to getting your children’s book published.

via Children’s Book Blog: Ask the editor – Jenny Glencross, Orion Children’s Books | Rebecca Davies | Independent Arts Blogs.

Scottish Children’s Imprint Celebrates 10th Anniversary And Announces New Teen List

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Floris Books, Scotland’s largest children’s publisher, celebrated the 10th anniversary of their Kelpies imprint of Scottish children’s books and launched a ground-breaking new teen list at a private party in Edinburgh on Friday.
The imprint’s authors and illustrators, including award-winning authors Theresa Breslin and Lari Don, gathered to raise a glass to a decade of publishing great Scottish children’s books.

Floris Books acquired the Kelpies list in 2002 from fellow Scottish publisher Canongate but it wasn’t until 2003 that they published their first original Kelpie, The Chaos Clock by Gill Arbuthnott.

The orginal Kelpies list of classic Scottish authors such as George Mackay Brown, Kathleen Fidler and Mollie Hunter have been joined over the last decade by new Scottish writing talent such as Royal Mail Award Winner Lari Don and Amazon bestseller Daniela Sacerdoti.

 

New Teen List

KelpiesTeen, a new range of quality Scottish fiction for young teens, will be launched early next year with three titles by existing Floris Books authors — Lari Don, author of the First Aid for Fairies series; Roy Gill, author of The Daemon Parallel; and Gill Arbuthnott, author of Dark Spell.

The KelpiesTeen range will be first of its kind specifically for Scottish interest books. Lockwood-Holmes commented:

“Scottish children have grown up with Picture Kelpies and Kelpies, so we’re delighted to be launching KelpiesTeen which will enable those children to keep reading great Scottish authors and stories into their teenage years.”

Submissions are now welcome for the KelpiesTeen list and should include a significant Scottish connection.

via Book Trade Announcements – Scottish Children’s Imprint Celebrates 10th Anniversary And Announces New Teen List.