Editorial Anonymous

The pandas love the smell of Listerine. The flamingoes like to see themselves in the mirror. The gorillas enjoy the feel of finger paint. In...

goes to four distinguished contestants: One man's food poison is another microbe's siren. SAM AND ELLA, A LOVE STORY proves that it ...

MURDEROUS MARY, the true story of the elephant who killed a boy in Tennessee during a circus parade. She seized him with her trunk, threw hi...

In my new picture book, A Little Quiet , Mama is on a mission. As she searches for a place to rest, her children follow her all over the ho...

I'm very enlivened and dying to send you my finally clear book on Einstein's relativity. Like sand through the hour-glass, so are......

Submissions have closed. No more! The Best (and the Worst) are to come. Like, maybe tomorrow or Tuesday.

These are my new favorite cookie cutters . Over at Book Roast , rumor has it they're partnering with Reach Out and Read (ROR), a childr...

Ok, ok, I'm buckling to pressure. It's the first Best/Worst Pitch Contest. Wondering if your pitch is making a classic mistake or b...

When Angeline hears that animals can't go to heaven, she starts digging a hole in her backyard in an effort to visit Hell and her dead p...

I am writing to you because God has given me a gift of writing and I will make lots of sales for your company. This writing is a gift from ...

What percentage of an Editorial Letter do you realistically expect an author to accomplish? Or, better phrased, how often does an author fix...

I'm so bored. Why doesn't Editorial Anonymous post something? Wait, that's me. I need to post something. Oh, all right. Hol...

Through Monday, I am not here. I am over HERE , answering questions.

I'm way behind on my Bookninja reading. So: First of all, this link . Awesome. How much does airfare to Australia cost?... Also, You k...

I've often felt like the Rodney Dangerfield of children's book illustrators. So much of it seems like a hush hush situation but I fe...

As we've been discussing, the slush inspires some mixed feelings. For some people (persistant, talented people), it pays off. And for ...

When an editor, who has been given the task by a small publisher to be the art director and then tries to "direct" the illustrat...

I write YA fiction on a blog, mainly because the illusion of having an audience motivates me to write. Does this hurt my chances of publicat...

What is meant by a "commercial" middle grade novel? My guess is something that might have the potential to become a movie or ser...

I have had 14 picture books published and 100+ work-for-hire elementary texts. All my books were well-reviewed and most sold moderately. Des...