Editorial Anonymous

I wanted to say a little something about yahoos, while we're on the subject. I know a lot of authors, and I know quite a few of them we...

When submission guidelines ask for a bio of the author to be included in the submission packet, what are editors looking for in general? I ...

I'm very surprised we haven't heard an EA peep (or snark) about the Newbery / Caldecott / Printz et al from you. I thoroughly suspe...

I'm working to become a children's book illustrator and would like to know how to set up meetings with art directors/publishers. I...

I recently created an 30 page early reader children's book and have begun the process of looking for an agent. There's the first pro...

How much weight does a title hold in a query? I ask this because I find that even though I LOVE my manuscript I have yet to name it (and I f...

Except no, it wasn't. It's a story about the emotional lives of a moose's antlers. With badly-copied illustrations from If You G...

Talk about being stopped dead by the title of a manuscript. Of course now I wish I'd read a bit more so I could tell you what it was ab...

Some of you will be familiar with the term deus ex machina . But for those of you who aren't, the OED says: "A power, event, perso...

This just in: I'm rude. "...That said, maybe she called Editorial Anonymous next. Then she'd get some rude, and it would be del...

Squirrels: So 2007. Geese? Over. Timmy: Subsiding. Currently: Chihuahuas. With photos. Honestly, how many times do I have to tell people? ...

Following up on the QueryFail brouhaha, my fine colleague Erin Murphy (an agent) comes in with an example of someone who roundly deserves an...

The internet allows such free communication. It gives us the opportunity to open our minds to countless others, and it gives us the unfilte...

In your recent posts you have alluded to the costs per book and how small the profit margin can be in children's book publishing. In li...

Many would-be authors are under the quaint misapprehension that all you have to do to get even the most niche-audience books on bookstore sh...

Is wrong information better than no information? For many publishers, the answer is yes. Bookscan is a service that started in 2001, and gat...

No, I haven't forgotten about the evil first pages clinic . There's a new one up now; I'll get to everybody in the queue eventua...

Ooo, that sounds dirty. Will there be pole-dancing involved? No. We're still on the topic of returns . Sexy, sexy returns. Yes, I...

Alas, dreaded returns. Someone in an inventory office or bookstore backroom somewhere has decided to return your book to the publisher. May...

We all know about the big publishers (many of which don't even take submissions), but do you know of any good small publishers that put ...